[SATLUG] [Even More OT] Speechless

[Travis H.]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 12:42:27PM -0600, Robert Pearson wrote:
> On 11/7/06, JJordan <jjordan86 at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> >The reality of the segment made it uneasy to watch. What was appalling was
> >the woeful lack of mental and emotional maturity evident in the bulk of the
> >respondents...very scary.

Well, it was FOX News after all.  Thinking is not their audience's
strong point.

FOX news was on 24/7 in certain rooms inside a military base where
I used to work.  It was CNN until Fox News came along.

Some of the people there thought a nuclear bomb would be a good way
to end the problems in the mid-East.  These same people were
angry over 9/11, but apparently failed to see the common thread
between what they proposed to do to millions of innocent people
and what OBL is alleged to have done to 3000 of us.

Yes, I would think they do employ PSYOPS people to attempt to
influence public opinion, but if I knew for sure I couldn't comment
on it.  What is scary is that they are probably targeting our
population, and not a foreign one.

It has been demonstrated already that the current administration
doesn't give one whit about public opinion in foreign countries,
but domestic opinion can make a difference on the Hill.  To put it
bluntly, they don't care what the public thinks unless the public
is empowered to do something about it, in other words, "might makes
right".

As far as I'm concerned, this is a dark period in our history.  By
invading Iraq, we have joined the ranks of aggressor nations such
as Germany and Japan.  Most people think dropping the bomb on Japan
was justified because they attacked us first.  What does that mean
when you consider that we attacked Iraq first?

Incidentally, Japan attacked us because we embargoed oil to them.
Germany attacked Russia to get the oil fields in Eastern Europe.
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discussing various paranoid delusions." -- Don Alvarez
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