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Re: Yet another prespective.

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4/6/2003 10:49 AM
ben	Re: Yet another prespective. Amen brother.

4/3/2003 7:39 AM

Thanks, Joe!

Joe:

Thanks for the post!

Nick said:

I just got a disturbing e-mail from one of my friends back home. She's keeping me informed about what the news is saying about the war and everything, and she told me about all the riots and protests going on.

Some friend, eh? With friends like that who needs enemies?

    I'm not saying that the news that the servicemen in the Middle East receive should be censored, but why rub his nose in it? IMO that friend is no friend at all!

    FWIW the anti-war protests are not directed to our armed forces on the front lines but to the commander-in-chief and his staff... "The Masters of War", so to speak.

    Here in the SF Bay Area, there are a lot of people getting really pissed off at the anti-war protesters blocking traffic, etc. That doesn't really help the cause...

    I personally don't see many parallels between the anti-Vietnam War protesters in the 60's and the anti-Middle East War protesters today. Back then heads were being cracked (literally) and there were very few restraints on what the police could do. The media was in the back pocket of the military-industrial complex, and the protests were necessary just to get the anti-war point of view published in the news. You'd have to read underground papers like the Village Voice or the Berkeley Barb to hear what the left-wing pacifists had to say...

    Times have certainly changed since then... heck, we even elected a draft dodger to be president— twice!

    Whenever I hear of there being another anti-war protest today, I just get a feeling of "been there, done that"...

Can't they come up with something original???

There are plenty of legitimate and legal channels that the people against the war can pursue: write letters to the editor and to their government representatives, publish newsletters, put a bumper sticker on their car, wear a t-shirt (but not at the mall!

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--Thanks!

Steve Ahola

P.S. I know quite a few people in the reserves and it seems like most of them are being called up... boy, they thought that they had it made— one weekend a month and two weeks every summer. Not that they are unwilling to fulfill their obligations, but I think that the current events have caught many of them totally unprepared to leave their jobs and their families... we shouldn't forget about them either!

4/3/2003 3:56 PM

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"Whenever I hear of there being another anti-war protest today, I just get a feeling of "been there, done that"... Can't they come up with something original??? "

Steve
Yah! I know what you mean. There is only so much that can be done by people that don't make protesting their main job in life like many war statigists do. I don't agree with blocking traffic and all that stuff either but I can simpathize with them in the sense that it's like a bad dream where you want to scream but can't. It must get tiring, and just like watching the news, it's been getting tiring too. I can almost tell you what they are going to come up with before it comes out in the news. I would chuckle if it wasn't so sad.
All this is getting boring. I think I'll go back to watching re runs of Andy of Mayberry and maybe go to bed a little earlier.
John Fisher

4/7/2003 9:54 PM

I think if one was to try and get to the very heart of these matters that we would actually find over inflated ego to be the problem.America,above all other world nations,is about the glorification of Ego,there are less restraints and historically induced ethics to keep the high flyers within limits and acting with due regard for those less lucky.Iraq is an obvious microcosm of the USA and is therefore deemed a threat to the "peaceful" existence of the bigger power.A possible physical solution to the problem would be to make cars without the inclusion of ego adjustments which would make them incredibly small and not subject to fashion.This would entail that the unhealthy would need to exercise because they couldn't use them as their size would not allow them fitting into them.If cars were made to last and share powerplants a huge amount of the manufacting sector would be removed and its encumbant retailing and advertising sectors would be defunct.Am I advocating socialism?,most probably,at least in those areas of society which are transport,schooling,nutrition and shelter.Maybe then we could spend three quarters of our life on holiday and learning.What a mad world that would be!

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