Well, one of the first things you do before you go to war, is to dehumanize the
enemy, to make them less than human. But yes, a eco-terr on navy sub, makes the
navy look sloppy and worse.. The USS Cole did that well enough?
Mike
"Jeffery J. Haas" wrote:
> "Species Traitor" <species_traitor@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:78d07745.0311191452.446a062d@posting.google.com...
> > On last night's episode of the flag-waving, Patriot Act-pushing,
> > jingoistic NAVY NCIS on CBS, a so-called "ecoterorist" was featured as
> > the villain. This guy was supposedly the member of a radical animal
> > rights "cell," snuck aboard a submarine (virtually impossible), and
> > was going to release the toxic poison sarin gas into the sub's
> > ventilation system. Absurd, of course, but the true horror of this
> > episode was the blatant anti-animal rights, anti-dissent message, from
> > "Special Agent Gibbs" (Mark Harmon) suggesting that peaceful
> > protesters at a Navy base be "shot," to making the subject matter of
> > injurious sonar testing laughable. There was NO differentiation
> > between peaceful animal rights protesters and "domestic terrorists."
> > PLEASE boycott CBS programming, their sponsors, contact the show's
> > producer, spread the word, etc. This is post-Sept. 11, right-wing
> > paranoia (animal rights activist destroys nuclear submarine and its
> > crew) at its worst!
>
> American television viewers are being fed a steady diet of fear and
> indoctrination so that when the time comes and they are asked/instructed to
> relinquish all rights and freedoms bow to the totalitarian world government,
> they will do so without flinching, without mentioning the Constitution, and
> without thinking.
> This is the purpose of the media machine. It creates traitors and
> treasonists that live in suburbs, ready to turn in their fellow citizens at
> the drop of a hat.
>
> George Orwell would be proud.
>
> JeffH
> Ch.S.
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