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MEDIA, MURDER AND AMERICAN MORALITY! tvnl
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| | From: | Reggie | | Subject: | MEDIA, MURDER AND AMERICAN MORALITY! tvnl | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:50:30 -0500 |
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 | MEDIA, MURDER AND AMERICAN MORALITY!
TEACHING AMERICA TO ENJOY THE KILL!
A TvNewsLIES ANALYSIS
When your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail….
THOU SHALT NOT KILL! So reads the moral precept that supposedly
underscores the morality of a civilized society. So reads the
Commandment embraced by those who believe in the guidance of a Supreme
Being. And so reads the warning to those who would forget that killing
is evil.
And yet, in the name of liberty and freedom, we kill. We kill those
whose ideologies we oppose and those whose intentions we suspect. We
defend the right kill when our leaders claim, even without validation,
that it is necessary. We kill with glory and we kill with honor. We
kill with shock and we kill with awe. And we call it war.
As a nation, we are the greatest killing machine the world has ever
known. Our unsurpassed killing technology has been sold to the American
public as a symbol of pride and superiority. Killing an enemy, real or
conceived, is sold to Americans as a positive experience. Through the
auspices of a media well versed in hype and promotion, a relentless
campaign has been waged in this country to make us comfortable with the
killing game that is war.
In the three years since the media helped George Bush & PNAC unleash his
invasion on Iraq, half the nation seems to have no problem with the
moral questions that are implicit in waging a war for no clear reason.
In fact, they seem to have no problem at all with the continuing
carnage. On the contrary, there is still an inexplicable pride in
watching America at War as staged on the nightly news. One has to
wonder if half the nation has any clue at all that killing for an
unjustifiable reason is murder.
It’s not surprising that some of the most overwhelming weapons used
against the Iraqis have such inoffensive names. Most Americans hardly
suspect that daisy cutters, bunker busters, javelins and tomahawks can
snuff out so many lives so mercilessly. American WMD’s such as depleted
uranium shells that sound a bit more ominous, are never mentioned by the
media, despite their long term killing ability. Neither has there been
any outcry against the use of outlawed weapons such as napalm, an old
friend from another time. The news networks did, however, hype those
500 pound bombs that flattened Fallujah – now there was a weapon to admire !
Of course, there never were any photos of the dead and dismembered
women, children and old people who fell victim to the bombs. There were
never even photos of our dead and dismembered troops who fell victim to
the war itself. For many Americans, there continues to be an illusion
of a bloodless war, with minimal collateral damage, with limited
civilian casualties, and with surgical, smart weapons that miraculously
know whom to kill. If only they knew....
More...
http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/media__murder___american_moral.html
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