You have got to love the American Media. See, just when the people start to get a whiff of something being "Not Quite Right", the media turns into an electronic David Copperfield, and fills our sights with another distractor.
Case in point; The big topic in America presently is the relationship between the races. make no bones about it, America is sliding down a slippery slope into what could become a racial civil war. Everyone is up in arms about nooses, the use of the N-Word, torture, rape, slighting of rights, all of the negative racial elements which led into the struggle for civil rights in the first place.
The government knows that the eyes of the American public have opened, and soon government will have to be held accountable for what is happening with regards to race in America. Enter the secret weapon of the government, that weapon being the media. George Orwell, eat your freaking heart out; Big Brother is out to control the minds of those who's knowledge is limited to only that which CNN chooses to tell them.
The media floats a story about Kenyan police death squads (man hunters I think is what they called them) exterminating a gang of thugs. Why are these images shown? Because 90% of all American have a soft spot for whoever is identified as the victim. Suddenly we go from holding the government accountable for our issues to "That's wrong, we need to do something about that". In other words, we give the government exactly what they want; the focus is now off of them, and onto some trumped up crisis which really is none of our business. In other words, we fall for the good ole Smoke and Mirrors effect.
Now, while we are busy chanting to stop the killing of gang members in Kenya, nooses are being hung on any tree with a branch hanging low enough for some beer bellied neanderthal to reach. Children are being lead away from their homes by sex offenders. Women are being beat up by men who hide behind the "Devil Made Me Do It" story. Schools are getting shot up. Rights are being systematically taken away. America is imploding, and why? Because our focus was placed on someone else's cause.
How can we justly insist on someone else cleaning up their mess if we are not willing to set an example? Hey Iraq, those stones represent terrorism and must be thrown out; meanwhile, our back yard is full of terrorist stones. Before we tell someone else how to clean up their yard, let's grab some rakes and clean up ours first.
Case in point; The big topic in America presently is the relationship between the races. make no bones about it, America is sliding down a slippery slope into what could become a racial civil war. Everyone is up in arms about nooses, the use of the N-Word, torture, rape, slighting of rights, all of the negative racial elements which led into the struggle for civil rights in the first place.
The government knows that the eyes of the American public have opened, and soon government will have to be held accountable for what is happening with regards to race in America. Enter the secret weapon of the government, that weapon being the media. George Orwell, eat your freaking heart out; Big Brother is out to control the minds of those who's knowledge is limited to only that which CNN chooses to tell them.
The media floats a story about Kenyan police death squads (man hunters I think is what they called them) exterminating a gang of thugs. Why are these images shown? Because 90% of all American have a soft spot for whoever is identified as the victim. Suddenly we go from holding the government accountable for our issues to "That's wrong, we need to do something about that". In other words, we give the government exactly what they want; the focus is now off of them, and onto some trumped up crisis which really is none of our business. In other words, we fall for the good ole Smoke and Mirrors effect.
Now, while we are busy chanting to stop the killing of gang members in Kenya, nooses are being hung on any tree with a branch hanging low enough for some beer bellied neanderthal to reach. Children are being lead away from their homes by sex offenders. Women are being beat up by men who hide behind the "Devil Made Me Do It" story. Schools are getting shot up. Rights are being systematically taken away. America is imploding, and why? Because our focus was placed on someone else's cause.
How can we justly insist on someone else cleaning up their mess if we are not willing to set an example? Hey Iraq, those stones represent terrorism and must be thrown out; meanwhile, our back yard is full of terrorist stones. Before we tell someone else how to clean up their yard, let's grab some rakes and clean up ours first.
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