RE: RAT ANTI-NATO-ART

[Sharon MacMenamin <saoirse9@yahoo.com>]

"One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter".  If only I had
a dollar for every time I've heard that one...

The ONLY difference between a soldier & a terrorist is perspective or
which side you're on. Just because you've got a government backing you
up doesn't make you any more "legitimate" or any less "terror
inducing", just better armed, funded & equipped.

Sharon

--- brad rothbart <scrdchao@nni.com> wrote:
> Lee:
> 
> If I could get you that vitriolic, I must be doing
> something right.
> 
> John: thanks for the reasoned response.
> 
> Wener: I feel a Camper Van Beethoven song coming on:
> "Send the Kosovars
> Chili, send them chili."
> 
> However, I think everyone is missding something:
> 
> I'm not trying to stop any wars singlehandedly...
> The web site was just
> shocking, in some very basic  punch -in-the-gut way.
> 
>  There I am, looking for Sobranie Cocktail
> cigarettes, which leads me to a
> whole set of Yugoslav websites. One of them is on
> "Belgrade Theatre."
> 
> Figure I'll check it out- it has a link to  an art
> gallery in Novi Sad.
> The current show at the gallery? A show of anti
> -NATO ( or as they refer to
> it, the North American Terrorist Organization)  art.
>  These are artists,
> folks, just like you and I.  Just reading the site I
> got the feeling that
> NATO was somehow being conflated with all the
> citizens of each country.
> I wanted to let them know that not all Americans
> agreed with our military.
> Maybe build one small bridge.
> 
> But it also  brouight questions.. we have these
> flashy CNN/MSNBC graphics:
> CRISIS IN KOSOVO. The dialectical news: Milosevic is
> bad, therefore we must
> be good. Further, since Milosevic is bad he does
> only bad  things-- since
> we are good we do only good things- ( except if we
> make a mistake, like
> bombing a passenger train.)
> 
> The news sure is different from the other side of
> the fence: FUCK POLITICS!
> STOP BOMBING MY COUNTRY!
> 
> If the bombs were falling on Seattle or Austin or LA
> or Iowa or Minneapolis
> or  Brooklyn, I think we would all feel the same way
> that those artists in
> Novi Sad  are feeling now.
> 
> Also, if art is supposed to be  a universal
> language,  shouldn't it
> supersede military action? Just because their
> government is killing
> refugees doesn't make these artists bad human
> beings, and the fact that our
> government is killing the people who kill people in
> order to state that
> killing people is wrong shouldn't make us RATS  bad
> people  either.
> 
> Don't tar me with the brush of government, ok?
> 
> 
> If memory serves, on the Cantacts list at  RATSTAR
> there is a theatre
> company from Belgrade. Has anyone heard from them?
> Are they still alive?
> 
> Finally, my  big musing for the day-- what's the
> difference between a
> terrorist and a soldier? Is there one? Or is it "
> Which side are you on,
> boy? Which side are you on?..."
> 
> Thoughfully,
> 
> Brad
> 
> 
> )
> 
> 
> 
> "The Barber shaves all and only those who do not
> shave themselves.
> If he does, he doesn't. If he doesn't, he does."
> 
> -Anonymous
> 
> ICQ#4630292
> 
> 
> 

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