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[Max's words after the "++"]

[email protected] wrote:


>I am SO SORRY for those that suffer so for the politics that are IGNORING
>the >Al Quaeda nest that has been stirred up in favour of a war with Iraq
>only for >THESE are apparently; these innocent elitist disco revellers our
>"frontline >army" and THAT is NOT FAIR!!
>


Right, you know John Walker Lindh told the FBI that most of the Terrorists
went to Yemen, and that he suspected that was where Bin Laden was. So the
dominos fall- first Iraq, then Yemen. Why Iraq is still anyones guess, if
the terrorists - uhm, "The Terrorists", sorry- are hq'd in Yemen and we have
evidence of their existence in Yemen and we know Yemen is big on the terror,
why are we not going after Yemen? [Of course I don't see why we'd "go after"
anyone war wise- but if Bush is itchy for another war you'd think Yemen. I'd
really rather be asking "why aren't we heavily policing and investigating
Yemen?" ] The war on afghanistan was deemed a failure by some dudes at the
CIA or something, anyone remember that link?



>These civilian casualities are far from the first or last victims of this
> >ongoing worldwide war cry which may jeopardize more lives as time passes.
> >


World Wide? You mean American / British. WASP-Wide war cry. [Excepting the
tiny percentage of militant Islamists who insist on giving Bush something to
fight.]

++Everyone's buying in, just negotiating terms of cash at this point,
divvying up. Daschle and Hillary got theirs, so dey oon board. This war
ain't like any other one, it ain't even a war proper. It's the new world
orders.


>
>That said, let's please think of those in Australia, England, Germany and
>the >other countries (Sweden) and nationalities "Indonesian" experiencing a
>sad >taste of what we in New York had an overabundant supply of just over a
>year >ago today.
>


I'm at a loss for why Australians are being targeted. What's next, Iceland?
What the hell does Australia have to do with anything? Scratch that
actually, I guess killing hundreds of Icelanders makes as much sense as
killing Americans or Sudanese or Kurds or Australians.

++The Pan-Arab fundamentalists want to kneecap us all, god bless us every
one. They want the whole banana. Tourist destinations, watch yer butt.

>Yes, it only just happened but how many government agencies must CLEAR the
>fact that the Al Quaeda are already being >blamed by the BBC while CNN
>avoids a) personifying the dead
>b) personifying the living
>c) personifying at all!
>d) personifying the organization (responsible) and naming them or offering,
> >least, educated guesses…
>


I dunno, what's so great about conjecture in news reporting? What if this
isn't Al Qaieda and is some other terrorist organization? Why does it matter
really, I guess, I mean it reminds me of when some crazy guy hijacked a Bus
in georgia pretty soon after 9/11 and killed 7 people or so, and the police
were like "Oh it's not a big deal, this guy wasn't a terrorist." Oh and what
do you mean by personifying? Because that isn't so great either really.

++The Finland one was just a copycat misfit of Finnish origin. "Terrorists
blamed for Finland Bombing" is just vomitus. Shoulda been "Western Society
Shows Zero Immunity to Self-Annihilation; Calls for NN to Help it Avoid the
Fate of the Roman Empire."

>Instead we have a CNN News Source that speaks in terms of building damages
> >and the explosive devices used in the mission….in other words the
>THINGS >AROUND the "human stories." God forbid we should stop worrying
>about our >"domestic welfare" via the Sniper I suppose.
>


Oh, I heard something ridiculous today; a poll that says Johnny and Jane
America are now more afraid of being killed by a sniper than they are by
terrorist attacks. I had to wonder if Bush would find some Iraqi link to
Snipers; declare war on snipers, that sort of thing. The sniper doesn't
worry me really. Six billion people on the planet and only one of them is
going around shooting people randomly? I like those odds, you know? How many
flowers bloom in a single season compared to how many humans are running
around randomly with a rifle?

++I see no doubt that El-Keida will utilize the USA's existing abundance of
fancy rifles to snipe the fuck out of us for a lot of years to come, unless
they give up. Anthrax in McDonald's, poisoned kind bud, every hole.
L'ananas entire.

Like people are so weird with numbers and perception; car crashes and cancer
are the more likely cause of death but everyone only worries about the
dramatic stuff. If only we were half as worried about heart disease than we
are about terrorism. Is it just a control issue? "I can always watch my diet
and even if I never do and die of a heart attack; at least it was me who
killed myself, and not some guy who wants to kill me for a country I didn't
even know existed?" But we're still not in control of dying from McNuggets,
Ronald McDonald is. Maybe the futility of terrorist deaths is what scares me
so much about it. Violent, futile and stupid deaths are what scare me, not
"terrorism" per se. But why is it preferable to die in a car crash? Why does
political violence fascinate us so much more than other kinds of deaths? Is
there really such thing as a "humdrum" way to die?

++To defeat the Bug, we must think like the Bug.


>We NEED a more WORDLY and INTERNATIONAL face on an INTERNATIONAL problem
> >which is why I am so troubled by US unilateralism (personally) when we
>HAVE a >UN (really)!
>


The US is acting in a scary manner, certainly. I saw some military big wigs
on frontline from 1999, talking about how America had a responsibility to be
the best military in the world because it functioned in a way that no other
country in the world does. It goes into small scale conflicts and determines
the winner; and this is designed to avoid full fledged wars like we saw in
WWI and WW2. The "problem" seems to be that the UN is getting wary of this;
doesn't want change but containment, and the US "wants change now."
Interesting thing on Frontline, it was about "The Future of War" and focused
on heavy machinery, had Dick Cheney talking about how we can't get involved
in over seas skirmishes any more, an Isolationist America stance, now
flipped completely. Quite telling was that they showed a war game taking
place; it was the US and Nato against a new Middle Eastern Alliance, and the
Alliance attacked us domestically and NATO and the US wrote it off as a loss
from the war and focused on getting the the heart of the fictitious Middle
Eastern Alliance. [The NRI they called it, "New Republic of Islam," but
maybe I'm messing this up with some horrible dream I had.]

++Zawahiri the Brain Bug is most certainly seeking a huge Arab Islamic
Fundamento-Alliance, using terror to hype up the troops, force us to spend
money against snipers and poisoners, all while hoping for a haymaker (nuke
DC/NY, nanotech) and a big big big supply of kamikazes. It's really a good
plan. Zawahiri wants revolutions in weak Arab states too, which would
capture a bunch of tanks and missles and other heavy items for his and
Osama's usage. Zawahiri likes this other guy whose name I forgot, a
50's-60's Egyptian whose followers kilt Sadat. NRI is what they want, and
if they get it, we will have to fight a pretty thundering war, or surrender.
While we send thunder, should we need to, there won't be no time or coin
to fight snipers–these would truly be collateral/necessary losses.

>CNN is most hopped up on the front page on sniper details and our own media
>chose not to display this disaster front and center and I for >one am
>outraged! How much more do we need to go through to support "red >dragon"
>at the box office?? I mean, a serial killer has apparently become >the
>national anti-hero displacing Osama while the "terrorism" goes on playing
> >in the background like a musical score.
>

++Wow newsflash city. Who cares. I'm going to see RD tomorrow because my
friend wants to, not because of Christian Nihilist Network page layouts.

Oh yeah but we love the violence don't we? Have some more hot dogs and eat a
whole chicken while you watch some football and you'll feel better, America!
God, we sell BUCKETS OF DEAD CHICKENS for people to EAT and we wonder why
people have a violence fetish? Not to mention that the inevitable result
most people have towards boredom is to break something or hurt themselves…

++Buck up soldati!

Let me put in the obligatory "America is a great place to be", but we have
huge gaping holes where our culture is supposed to be, particularly when it
comes to being a fifteen year old kid in the suburbs. It's really
interesting that our two biggest random-violence generators are tortured and
bored adolescents and passionately hopeless religious fundamentalists;
although I'm not sure how far a thriving indie rock scene in Palestine would
be helping us these days. But hell, why not?

++Virtual non-geographic rock might help. I'm going to see Petty at the
Target or Excel in Dyekabr, will try to alert him to g2k. My fave TPATH
song is "Change of Heart," they never play it so it's a "heart grow fonder"
deal. Petty says corporate DJs are formaldehydeing music, and he is
crorrect. Let's all email him, and he can call me up to drum on "Change of
Heart" or "Refugee." I heard he don't like playing "Breakdown" anymore but
still loves "Refugee" and always plays it. I saw him in '87, and he even
let the Replacements open for him, so I bet he'll love Shlagel. I could
play guitar on "Treament Bound" or drums, a duet, whatever. Let's all email
that dude!

Max Herman
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