************ Sebastian Lütgert ************ /* from: reclaim the streets */ > >Subject: forwarded from Michael Moore >Sent:via Sue lanzon >April 22, 1999 > >Dear Friends, > >There he was, The Great Consoler, standing >at the podium, biting his lip, and speaking to >a nation in shock. > >"We must teach our children to settle their >differences through words and not weapons." > >Meanwhile, this same President, continues >a daily slaughter of human beings. He says >it's because the people he is bombing are >doing their own slaughter. He has chosen to >respond to their actions not with "words" but >with death. > >Is it any wonder some of our children -- especially >those in most pain, the "outcasts," the "uncool" -- >decide to turn to murder and strike out against >what they perceive to be a world against them? >We live in a culture in America where violence is >The Way We Get Things Done. If it works for their >elders, why shouldn't the kids give it a try? > >As the kids at the high school near Denver >huddled in locked classrooms in the hopes >that they would not be the next one with a >bullet in the face, they turned on the classroom >TVs to watch the carnage and their own >potential execution on CNN. One student, >"Bob," got on his cell phone and called the >local Channel 9 to give the on-air anchors a >live play-by-play of events inside the school. > >"Bob," the anchors said after getting their >precious, Emmy-winning sound bytes, "maybe >you should hang up now and call 911." > >"Uh, oh, yeah," responded Bob, sounding a bit >disappointed. His connection to the virtual world >of television and cellular communication was >more a part of his instinct to survive than his >need to call the cops. Or maybe he trusted the >people on TV more to get him out of there than >the full-time armed officer who patrolled the halls >of the high school. Not one gun of a well-armed >force of police that showed up was able to >prevent one death. > >A world away, kids just a few years older than >Bob are dropping bombs that are killing kids >just a few years younger than Bob. We know >this because we watch it on TV. We learn why >we're dropping these bombs also on TV. A >man from the Pentagon shows us cool video >game images of point-and-click targets that >go "BOOM!" Cool. > >Another man in an important uniform shows >us photographs from one of the Mother-of-All- >Cameras, those satellites that sit thousands >of miles up in space and have, I guess, >REALLY long lenses. > >He shows us Photo #1. Here, he says, is >"unbroken, untouched ground" from a week ago. >Then he shows us Photo #2 where he points to >the ground being "freshly turned-over, dug up, >and replaced." This, he says, is evidence of >"a mass grave." > >The reporters sit there like anxious pet dogs, >lapping up the "revelations" and eagerly >reporting them to us as "truth." > >But these journalists failed to ask the man in >the important uniform one very important and >obvious question: "Where's the middle photo?" > >If our satellite camera is always up there and >running, capturing the before and after of a >300 foot piece of dirt, where's the "during" >photo? The satellite cameras were snapping >pictures the whole time, so where's the photos >of the massacre itself? Where are the photos >of the Serbs transporting the bodies to the >"mass grave?" Where are the photos of the >bodies being placed in the "mass grave" and covered >with dirt? Where's just ONE photo of any of this? > >Was the satellite camera on the blink during all >this activity? Was it only working before the >ground was dug and then only after it was >covered back up? > >Where are those photos, Mr. Clinton and >Mr. Blair? > >Members of our so-called free press: Where >is your courage to ask the obvious questions? >Why won't you? Why are we being lied to? > >On the night of the Denver shootings, NATO (us) >bombed the building containing the three >Serbian TV entertainment networks. They >didn't bomb the news station putting out >the nightly propaganda until two nights later. >They chose to bomb the entertainment >networks first, one of which was showing >"Wag the Dog" with its fake Albanian >atrocity scenes, on a continuous loop. > >Yes! Bomb the entertainment networks, >'cause it's all just one big show for a >violence-deprived public forced to sit through >a year of mostly-unconsummated oral sex in >oval offices. We'd much prefer the gore to >Gore and Bill. "The Matrix," a film about a >young hero in a trenchcoat who is able to >blows away everything in sight, is the >number one film this week in the country. > >And as the children of Denver ran from the >trenchcoated killers, they were not met outside >by nurturing adults who might take them into their >arms to console and soothe them. > >No, the students were ordered to run out with >their hands above their heads into the gun >sights of the local S.W.A.T team who herded >them up against a wall -- "KEEP YOUR >HANDS WHERE WE CAN SEE THEM!" -- >and frisked them with their other hand, the one >not holding a gun to their backs. > >You see, the killer or killers might have been >amongst them, so all the children were >suspects, all potential murders in the eyes >of the state. Yes, it's our children who are >at fault, we are told -- They watch violent >movies! They listen to violent misogynist >music! They play violent video games! > >Soon, they may be asked to die a violent >death on the fresh-but-recently-disturbed >soil of the Balkans. > >They will be well prepared. > >Yours, >Michael Moore > "To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection." Raoul Vaneigem, The Revolution of Everyday Life. /* has been on nettime - sorry for cross-postings */ ******************************************************************************** ROLUX h0444wol@rz.hu-berlin.de http://www2.hu-berlin.de/~h0444wol/rolux/