22-07-2011, 06:51 PM
Indeed, Greg.
To be clear, once again I've rejected an either/or analysis here and suspect that this sturm und drang may be played up to heighten the viewing public's interest AND have any number of deep political subtexts -- from testing the public's willingness to go along with censorship and/or its level of sympathy for the "special relationship," to a counter-move to balance the recent successful (?) efforts to ban the Kennedy mini-series hit piece, or ...
To be clear, once again I've rejected an either/or analysis here and suspect that this sturm und drang may be played up to heighten the viewing public's interest AND have any number of deep political subtexts -- from testing the public's willingness to go along with censorship and/or its level of sympathy for the "special relationship," to a counter-move to balance the recent successful (?) efforts to ban the Kennedy mini-series hit piece, or ...
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene