Re: RAT RE: ANTI-NATO RANT

[Sharon MacMenamin <saoirse9@yahoo.com>]

Of course it makes a difference that this genocide is going on in
Europe rather than in Asia or Africa or even Mexico.  Sad but true. 
But what I've found fairly surprising is the LACK of intensity of the
propaganda machine regarding the atrocities in that region for most of
this decade.

My gut is telling me that we're only being revealed the tip of the
iceberg.  Our government is only slowly leaking out info because to do
otherwise would expose their culpability of having known damn well
what's been going on for the last decade & they just mutely stood watch
while it occured.

Sharon


--- josh@whirl-i-gig.com wrote:
> The only difference between this genocide and the
> ten or twenty other
> genocides we've been vaguely entertained by over the
> course of the past ten
> years or so is the immensity of the propaganda
> machine (the political
> theatre and tele-theatre) telling us that this is
> the most horrible thing
> since WWII.  But I wonder what makes this more
> horrible than the goings on
> in Rwanda or Chiapas or Cambodia.  Call me short
> sighted, but the biggest
> differences seems to me to be the color of the
> victims' skin and the
> proximity of these events to the "western" (as if
> there were any eastern
> left) world.
> 
> Josh Furst
> 
> 
> 

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