01-03-2010, 06:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-03-2010, 06:22 PM by Peter Lemkin.)
David Guyatt Wrote:Magda Hassan Wrote:The death of one (white NATO soldier) is a tragedy the death of a thousand (brown people) is a statistic.
Throughout my life this has always been the case. It says something for the narrow, self serving attitudes inculcated and promulgated by our beloved Fuhrer's, that this is still the case.
As everyone has pointed out [correctly, IMO] part of it is racism and 'religionism', pure and simple; but there is also the feeling of 'Empire' and the different treatment and even value [or shall we say humanness] of those in or outside the 'Empire'. I was always puzzled as a child when the NYT would have a headline such as, 'Plane crashes in Egypt, ten Americans dead' [no mention - or in the last paragraph how many Egyptians and others might have died! Sickening and sadly GROWING in America - not melting away.....we are heading back, as David hinted, toward the evil values of the German Reich. Those who are students of history over the last 75 years or so will know the reasons why and the interconnections of persons, corporations, profit motive and philosophy [sic] that have made this so.......very sadly for all on this Planet.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass