by professorpan » Fri Jul 29, 2005 1:06 am
I was digging through some old stuff today and found the link to a rant I spread around the net in 1998, and reposted when I started up my blog. Remember, it is from 1998 -- the Clinton era. For those who are new to deep politics and think the current cabal is an aberration, I offer this as a dark trek down (recent) memory lane.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.charm.net/~profpan/2005/03/gulf-war-redux.html">www.charm.net/~profpan/20...redux.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>A couple of excerpts:<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>All sarcasm aside, it does suddenly feel like we've time-warped our way back to the early 1990s, what with all this Saddam-Iraqi bullshit unfolding again on our TV screens. There's a noticeable whiff of fascism in the air, but this time it's tempered with a been-there-done-that sense of ennui from the general populace. These days it's the old WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION boogeyman that is trotted out to rouse the slumbering citizenry to alarm. Defense Secretary William Cohen says:<br><br>"....The U.N. believes that Saddam may have produced as much as 200 tons of VX. And this would of course be theoretically enough to kill every man, woman and child on the face of the Earth."<br><br>Good Lord! It's just like Dr. Evil in Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery! No matter that UNSCOM (The United Nations Special Commission on Iraq) has found *zero* evidence that Iraq actually possesses the stuff....because we know they *want* to kill us all, right? And isn't that enough to kill all of them?<br><br>Pardon his cynicism, but the Professor wonders how anyone can believe anything that the Pentagon via CNN/NBC/MSNBC/BBC/CBS/ABC says anymore regarding Saddam and Iraq, especially after the Hill and Knowlton (Washington PR. firm) fabrication about babies being yanked out of incubators and left to die (<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.igc.org/fair/extra/best-of-extra/gulf-war-not-true.html)">www.igc.org/fair/extra/be...true.html)</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> and the sickening way the "free" press kow-towed to the Pentagon and essentially became a toothless lapdog sucking at the approved Pentagon news teats (see links below).</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>And:<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>During the Gulf Slaughter the Professor watched at first with amusement, then despair, then total fear as the people of this country became bloodthirsty, yellow ribbon-festooned fascist automatons spouting ridiculously vapid slogans like "Support Our Troops!"--as if anyone who didn't support the war actually *wished death* upon the poor unfortunate G.I. Joes and Janes that were forced to fight for the Kingdom of Kuwait and oil company profits!<br><br>The Professor was actually sprayed in the face with pepper spray by a bunch of Bush Youth because he had an "Impeach King George" sticker on his car, and the very same automobile was vandalized twice by bat-wielding patriotic hooligans. (Hmmm....I wonder if that happens as often to folks who have anti-Clinton stickers on their cars? Why do I doubt it?).<br><br>He was told by a co-worker that he should be "taken out and shot" for opposing the war and that "Saddam Hussein would invade the U.S." if he wasn't stopped (see Cohen's statement above for the most recent version of this idiocy). He attended an anti-war demonstration made up of thousands of *truly* conscientious, patriotic Americans, including veterans, teachers, and clergy, then watched as CNN chose to devote their coverage to the *thirty or forty* counter-protesters. Oh, yeah, they didn't *totally* neglect the mass gathering of anti-war demonstrators, because they did show *one guy* in a tie-dyed T-shirt doing some kind of free-form Grateful Dead dance for about ten seconds as the credits rolled. And you wonder why the Professor wanted to flee his native country in terror?<br><br>So, dear readers, the choice is yours. You can accept the bullshit that issues from the foetid mouth of the beast chained deep inside the Pentagram...oops, Pentagon walls....or you can scrape away the layers of filth and patiently dig for the truth. It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>Yep... same as it ever was! <p></p><i></i>
