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Music, culture & politics. We'll also update Whitee's recording progress.Saturday, February 19, 2005
Holy Crap! I think my head is going to explode. I may end up getting watched by the government for this, but I'm down with Ward Churchill. He was interviewed on Democracy Now on Friday and put into words what I've been trying to say for a while.
While I'm glad he said what he said, it's been frustrating that I haven't been able to put it into a coherent thought on my own.
First of all, if you're paying attention to vibrator or oxycontin addicts then you don't know what the guy said. Check out the transcript of the interview.
Dude's saying that by our (America's) own strategy used by our military, the World Trade Center was an acceptable target by the hijackers. We target public buildings in which our "enemies" have government agencies in. The CIA had offices in the WTC...therefore that was an acceptable target when using our own standards. To say that the behavior is good for us but not for others is hypocritical (even though other words come to mind). You can't impose a standard on the rest of the world and not uphold it yourself. {cough...cough...Stalin...cough...cough}
You know...bomb for peace, take away rights for freedom, that kinda stuff.
Churchill isn't saying that 9/11 was cool, he's just saying that if we continue to do wack shit to other countries, you can't expect others to just sit and take it.
The jist of this is: What the F do you expect? You can't do this crap and not expect casualties. The outrage is that it wasn't poor Amercians' kids going somewhere and dying for rich people. They attacked people with (relative) money and status. That's why they didn't go after a mall or a stadium. You shouldn't be happy it happened, but you shouldn't be surprised, either.
I know some people were pissed at me before by my take on 9/11. Well, I stand by it - even the timing of it. It needed to be said, not just by me, but by more people.
Churchill's the bomb...he put it well...until we put children with brown skin at equal value to children with white skin, things like 9/11 will continue to happen. It's that plain & simple. Read that transcript.
More wack shit.
How 'bout some more.
Not enough?
The Coup de Gras.
While I'm glad he said what he said, it's been frustrating that I haven't been able to put it into a coherent thought on my own.
First of all, if you're paying attention to vibrator or oxycontin addicts then you don't know what the guy said. Check out the transcript of the interview.
Dude's saying that by our (America's) own strategy used by our military, the World Trade Center was an acceptable target by the hijackers. We target public buildings in which our "enemies" have government agencies in. The CIA had offices in the WTC...therefore that was an acceptable target when using our own standards. To say that the behavior is good for us but not for others is hypocritical (even though other words come to mind). You can't impose a standard on the rest of the world and not uphold it yourself. {cough...cough...Stalin...cough...cough}
You know...bomb for peace, take away rights for freedom, that kinda stuff.
Churchill isn't saying that 9/11 was cool, he's just saying that if we continue to do wack shit to other countries, you can't expect others to just sit and take it.
The jist of this is: What the F do you expect? You can't do this crap and not expect casualties. The outrage is that it wasn't poor Amercians' kids going somewhere and dying for rich people. They attacked people with (relative) money and status. That's why they didn't go after a mall or a stadium. You shouldn't be happy it happened, but you shouldn't be surprised, either.
I know some people were pissed at me before by my take on 9/11. Well, I stand by it - even the timing of it. It needed to be said, not just by me, but by more people.
Churchill's the bomb...he put it well...until we put children with brown skin at equal value to children with white skin, things like 9/11 will continue to happen. It's that plain & simple. Read that transcript.
More wack shit.
How 'bout some more.
Not enough?
The Coup de Gras.
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