02-07-2013, 02:14 PM
Nathaniel Heidenheimer Wrote:"And believe me, it will be a war."
I hope so, but I am increasingly skeptical.
How can there be a war if only one army takes the field?
All this focus on petitioning pols is not working. They are long past caring UNLESS there is a political cost for them to do so. There is no cost if there is no BROAD-REACHING POSTING going on, reaching a more general audience.
The preparations of the 50th, IMO have completely failed to take into account our new media environment, in which THERE WILL BE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IN THE MSM OTHER THAN CORPORATE DISMISSAL, so its either us posting wider into non-JFK related sites [i.e. more general readers to show them WHY it matters] or a war with only one army taking the field.
..taking the field....taking the field...taking the field.... It's simply not happening.
Nor is it likely to happen.
It should have been a war 50 years ago.
But that's another story.
I couldn't agree with you more, Nathaniel. The paper tigers will be prowling Dealey Plaza. You can "hear" their growls already.
Signing petitions. Extending three fingers into the air. "Negotiating" with accessories to regicide.
I can see the self-described warriors now ... playing war, running through Dealey Plaza wearing too-small plastic helmets, their self-anointed leaders screaming "CHARGE!" in the ear-splitting tones of castrati.
As I noted more than 15 years ago:
We are at war with the murderers of John F. Kennedy[.]
And I am sickened by the mercy we extend to a merciless enemy each time we treat with collegiality their disgraced surrogates.
But before we can know our enemy, we must know ourselves. Define ourselves. Be at peace with and possess the courage of our convictions. Unite in a common crusade, the substance of which renders our superficial stylistic differences meaningless.
Who are we?
We are the Lakota of AIM. We are the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. We are the Viet Cong of Tet. And yes, we are the Palestinians of Sabra and Shatila.