Subject: Re: Sto P MaKIng Sense and Stop Wasting Time
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 16:40:46 -0000


This is really unpardonably anti-intellectual.  What do you mean by
controlled?  If Bush controls the media why is he convinced that it is a
liberal conspiracy against him?  There is plenty of (now quite old) theory
on how the media responds to powerful elite groups in society, I recommend
you read some of this.

As for protest against the war I think that you are being unnecessarily
defeatist.  I think there is evidence that the widespread protest from many
quarters, including those who Bush would traditionally list among his
allies, has for the moment prevented unilateral US military action.  While I
think question remain about the legitimacy of the weapons inspections,
protest maintains pressure on the US administration to allow this process to
take place and to take precedence to unmonitored military attacks.  It may
ultimately prevent any outright attack from taking place.

This isn't a victory if victory is only measured as the overthrow of the
Bush government - or any capitalist government in the US.  But is that
seriously the battleground at the moment?  Resistance is often piecemeal
that doesn't make it wrong or irrelevant.


----- Original Message -----
From: Maldoror <insektus-AT-yahoo.com>
To: <postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: Sto P MaKIng Sense and Stop Wasting Time


> start voicing dissent in
> > the popular
> > media at the glaring non-sequiturs in the case
> > that's being made for
> > war at present,
>
> the media is controlled by those in power (ie bush).
> why do you think dissent is always relegated to
> academic journals and dissident mags found in
> underground bookstores.
>
> gr3g
>
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> 'every government is a dictatorship. every leader, a tyrant.'   -anonymous
>
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