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Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword.
It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind...
And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded with patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader, and gladly so.
How do I know?
For this is what I have done.
And I am Caesar.
—William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
This is a work-in-progress, and will probably be here longer than any actual war in Iraq. However, in the up and coming age of US imperialism, this page will work for any war.
Is Bush a psychopath?
A quantitative method that finally answers the age-old question...
By The Professor at Jan 2 2007 - 4:05pm | Get Your War On | read more | login or register to post comments
The System of Minute Flaws
It's all so incredibly maddeningly simple. Yet there is a need to pretend otherwise. Volumes are written dodging the obvious with a deluge of slippery details. A mass hysterical delusion kept in place because it operates on the lowest level of energy.
By The Professor at May 16 2003 - 8:05pm | Get Your War On | read more | login or register to post comments
What to do in a Terrorist Attack
Houston Coalition for Justice Not War provides more realistic advice than Mr. T. Ridge.
By The Professor at Mar 29 2003 - 12:00am | Get Your War On | read more | login or register to post comments
O What Fun We Have With CNN
The UN could not find any of the following weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. However, the good folk in the media are all too willing to list them as absolute fact in their snazzy charts summing up the various weapons involved in this war.
The chart below has been tactically extracted from one found on CNN. In our ongoing emergency media watch, we at PBBBS, in conjunction with the good folks at PBBBS News Corps, felt it necessary and informative to focus on various and seemingly mundane aspects of this chart. (Note: Links within the chart have been disabled by the editors to protect our readers from propaganda.)
By The Professor at Mar 28 2003 - 7:23pm | Get Your War On | The Pentagon Sez | read more | login or register to post comments
Phrases of an Embedded Media
his is really basic stuff. However, it appears that people peddling this war have forgotten history, or chosen to ignore basic rational thought. See below for a short list of some slogans that are thrown around to sound good and confuse very basic issues. Feel free to contact PBBBS if you have an idea for another one or would like to edit the PBBBS interpretations.
'Terrorism'
This is quite possibly the most misused buzzword in this entire mess. The most basic definition of terrorism is the systematic use of terror as a means of coercion. A more complicated definition, found in various legalistic definitions is the use of violence against individuals with no immediate control over policy as a means of coercing change. As usual, Noam Chomsky has it right in regards to recent 'terrorist' acts:
Bombing Average City, USA
elow is an image of Average City, USA. In order to gain perspective on the figures of blast radii thrown around so loosely in the media regarding our "Shock and Awe" campaign on Baghdad, we have overlaid a few blast radii on this map of Average City, USA.
As this is being written, a 'news caster' on CNN, the most trusted name in media, states that the US "broke out some Bunker Buster bombs to pound Baghdad".
How we done it/Disclaimer
- Using Google, we searched for "average city, usa" with the number one result being an article about the US census finding that Wichita Falls, TX was indeed, Average City, USA
- Using Mapquest, we obtained an image of Wichita Falls, TX
- Again, using Google, we found several pages describing the 'average blast radius' of various conventional weapons. From the former champion, the 15,000 pound Daisy Cutter down to the 2000 pound bombs dropped out of the B2 stealth bombers. And, God Bless Fox News (This is a market report so that all you investors can go invest in your favorite bomb manufacturer) for providing information on the MOAB, a 21,000 pound monster that will destroy everything in a 1000 foot radius.
- We then simply overlaid these blast radii on Average City, USA to get an idea of exactly how smart our bombing campaign in Baghdad may be.
It should be repeated and emphasized that we have no ill will towards the peoples of Wichita Falls, and that the targets in our map were chosen at random. The purpose of this image is to provide scale to the numbers thrown around so loosely in the press.
sinking ships ride on
I am still waiting for the punchline. The joke has been told. I really don't get it. Are people secretly laughing? Am I missing something? The boat appears to still be on course, as it has been for sometime now, with the iceberg hidden behind a future fog. But now, it would seem, the captain has ordered full throttle, thrown the binoculars over the edge, drained freshwater supplies, shot the navigator and burned the lifeboats.
And nobody cares.
The iceberg is practically visible, I'm not sure, but the front of the boat may have already hit it.
And nobody cares.
Children are dying people are crying but the band plays on and the captain toasts his officers. Faith in a sinking ship will pull us through. Through what I scream into an arctic wind and nobody cares.
The poor in the bottom of the boat are chained to their beds while officers of the boat shoot those that would climb towards the deck. The boat entertainment company has a new play about the wonders of walks in the park and the cleaning service will now clean your room, if you have one, two times a week.
The captain orders the sharks kept in the hull released into the surrounding seas as the boat begins to shake from the impact. The back of the boat catches fire and the fire crew fights with gasoline.
And nobody cares.
And so it goes and on and on and nobody cares.
A dance, if you will, to celebrate the goodness of children. Let us be merry for all that we have as the flames are quenched by black water in a cold arctic breeze.
Once we were here.
By The Professor at Apr 11 2001 - 4:44pm | Get Your War On | read more | login or register to post comments
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Daily Cupcake 'O Justice
Premise 4
Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy to those loer is nearly always invisible, that is, unnoticed. When it is noticed, it is fully rationalized. Violence done by those lower on the hierarchy to those higher is unthinkable, and when it does occur is regarded with shock, horror, and the fetishization of the victims.
