1:17 pm PDT, Sep 19,
Jin Emerson-Cobb, Tennessee
Fascism destroys the separation of corporate power & govt power. It%u2019s what we get when greedy CEOs decide what we can or can%u2019t do. It%u2019s called %u201Cgiving us the BIZnissss.%u201D A mere 6 corporations now monopolize mainstream US media. That means we get propaganda instead of news. In Feb. 2003, e.g., a Fla. appeals court ruled for Fox %u2018News%u2019 that there%u2019s no law against distorting or falsifying the news; i.e., they can %u201Clegally%u201D LIE to us. (The suit involved recombinant bovine growth hormone made by Monsanto, the corporation that is destroying our food supply through genetic engineering & terminator seeds while the media ignore it.) So WSMB now marches to the jingle of fascist profit motive, helping to dumb down the populace. I will NEVER again listen to it or support its sponsors. (I now hear Mike Malloy, Thom Hartmann, et al. on NOVA M, 1480 KPHX, via the Internet.) - See how gradually the corporatists are taking over our information, our govt, & our lives (sacrificed to a death-profiteers%u2019 war of choice)? If we don%u2019t object to the first %u201Clittle%u201D changes, then everything will be taken away. Here%u2019s a relevant quote from %u201CThey Thought They Were Free %u2013 The Germans, 1933-45%u201D by Milton Mayer: "What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security.%u201D WSMB is now part of the problem. I%u2019d hoped for truly progressive talk radio in Memphis, but fascists love Money, not America. It looks like the only peaceful solution left to regain our balanced (non-fascist) system of govt & our access to truth is to have a general strike of at least 3 days: no work, no school, no buying anything, no using the media or utilities grid - & to repeat it until they understand. The 11th, 12th, & 13th of each month seem appropriate, because corporate-fascists made a LOT of money from Sept. 11th & are still making BILLIONS from the suffering & death caused by their war on Iraq.
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