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Bob Morris @ Nov 29th 2002 10:48 - Category: Unfiled ;
Archive for November 29th, 2002
A XMAS CAROL
Bob Morris @ Nov 29th 2002 10:46 - Category: Unfiled ;
A XMAS CAROL
On the twelfth day of fascism
John Ashcroft gave to me
Twelve digital implants
Eleven years protesting
Ten less amendments
Nine internment camps
Eight surveillance cameras
Seven TIPsters tipping
Six snoops a-sniffing
Five Carnivores
Four airport friskings
Three wiretappings
Two detained Muslims
And a Department of Homeland Security
America’s imperial slide toward war…
Bob Morris @ Nov 29th 2002 10:20 - Category: Unfiled ;
America’s imperial slide toward war.
So, with little effort to justify his actions, an imperial president moves the most powerful nation on Earth toward the latest deadly conflict. Sitting on the sidelines, too many lawmakers seem content to let their constitutional authority be the first casualty of war. [Latino Vote News]
True Roots of Terrorism Against…
Bob Morris @ Nov 29th 2002 10:03 - Category: Unfiled ;
True Roots of Terrorism Against the West.
Patrick Seale dismisses the arguments raised by the media as reasons for the examples of world terrorism, but primarily focused in nations where Muslim populations are in the majority.
If all this, as the US would have us believe, is the work of a single shadowy terrorist network, with tentacles stretching across the world, then the way to defeat it is to cut off its head and then destroy its offshoots one by one. This is what America and its allies are trying to do. But what if the West is grappling with an altogether different phenomenon? What if the war on terror being waged is fundamentally wrong-headed? [Instead, Seale argues, a more logical] possibility is that the “enemy†is not just a terrorist network but a broad, militant, grassroots rebellion against American military and political interventions in the Arab and Muslim world, against Western arrogance, racism and bullying. [Via Blog Left]
As pointed out here before, as detailed in the seminal book Networks and Netwars, networked organizations don’t have heads that can be cut off. That is one of their strengths, - something hierarchical organizations have major difficulty understanding. These is no one person in charge. There may not be anyone in charge.
Al Quaeda has variously been described as a university and a funding source. They train and finance, Students graduate and form their own groups which may be in loose contact with the others.
The primary point here though is that these groups may be the radical fringe of a general “grassroots rebellion” against - hey let’s call it what it is - American imperialism. If so, they will have hidden and tacit support everywhere and be that much harder for outsiders to find.
It’s clear that at least some major part of the Saudi monarchy supports them, certainly the highly competent Pakistan Secret Police does, and, obviously suicide bombers do. For a suicide bomber to be that willing to die, pehaps we should be asking WHY they are so motivated, because yes, this does seem like a grassroots rebellion…
Turkey terror ad from PETA
Bob Morris @ Nov 29th 2002 09:36 - Category: Unfiled ;
Turkey terror ad from PETA
The new television campaign, scheduled to run through the holiday season, depicts a terrorist takeover of a supermarket. The store manager is shown bound and gagged, with shoppers cowering, as an unseen hostage taker warns that “innocent creatures” will be beaten, scalded and dismembered if anyone resists.
The commercial eventually reveals the “terrorist” to be a turkey puppet with a demand that people stop eating meat.
Big Brother, Pt. 1
Bob Morris @ Nov 29th 2002 09:34 - Category: Unfiled ;
Big Brother, Pt. 1
Mass. Gov. wants Bush administration to handle security at 2004 Democratic Convention in Boston.
Big Brother, Pt. 2
From Molly Ivins. The great writer on the subject of totalitarianism was George Orwell, and “1984″ is always worth rereading. Damned if GeeDubya Bush didn’t pop up the other day to announce that we must fight a war “for the sake of peace.” That’s not vaguely Orwellian, it’s a direct steal.
