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RE: RAT ANTI-NATO-ART
Yeah!
It has struck me as ironic that our government would decry the cowardice of
terrorist bombing in Kenya and then blow up a factory from afar in
Somolia...
Ya know what I really think? War is dumb. It doesn't make any sense to me.
You know what our biggest export is? Aerospace, which of course is mostly
(partly anyway) war planes and missles.
You know what our second biggest export is? Entertainment.
I knew there was a reason that this thread was here!!!!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sharon MacMenamin [SMTP:saoirse9@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 4:35 PM
> To: rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
> Subject: RE: RAT ANTI-NATO-ART
>
> "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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