tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8001742444371356847.post5968675755938006284..comments2023-11-05T04:29:57.812-08:00Comments on Questioning War- Organizing Resistance: October 22, 2007- Unmasking State Sponsored Terrorism Show with Barrie Zwicker, Kevin Barrett, Sherry Clark and John LeonardCarol Brouillethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01683936149296666342noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8001742444371356847.post-68992826201369558202007-10-28T13:30:00.000-07:002007-10-28T13:30:00.000-07:00terrorvictim, are you saying that allpeople should...terrorvictim, are you saying that all<BR/>people should fight terrorism by <BR/>cooperating with the government, or <BR/>are you saying that all people should<BR/>fight terrorism that is done by the<BR/>government?snug.bughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09412792156178127582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8001742444371356847.post-77938687986136398982007-10-23T23:23:00.000-07:002007-10-23T23:23:00.000-07:00V for Vendetta is fatally flawed by a scene where ...V for Vendetta is fatally flawed by a scene where V carves up two cops with a sword in loving slow motion. Drape it with all the gaudy academic frippery you want-- call it metaphor, cathartic, claim it's on multiple levels you won't define, call it dreamscape, a channel for the release of healing righteous anger--and it's still obscenity that degrades all who tolerate it, and it's still about killing cops. A lot of people who see this movie aren't capable of swathing it in philosophist abstraction--to them it will always be about killing cops, and loving every millisecond of it.<BR/><BR/>Violence is not cleansing. It's destructive and seductive and addictive. Start out praising the aestheticization of unreal mythic violence, and within minutes you're extolling threats of violence as an agent of change in South Africa, and declaring that political power grows from the barrel of a gun.<BR/><BR/>Violence is dumb when <I>they</I> have electronic brain scramblers and all we have is guns. It's dumb when it's not necessary. Show a little imagination and see between fearful passivity and rabies a third way that harms no living thing--non-cooperation with, and obstruction and sabotage of, economic entities and processes. George Bush didn't need to invade Iraq. He could have brought Saddam to his knees by bombing power lines, bridges, railroads, and pipelines. The V mask means assassination and cop-killing, and the notion that we're going to bring the cops over to our side by marching around in mobs of forty people dressed in cop-killer costumes is ludicrous. <BR/><BR/>We saw all this before in the sixties. It didn't go anywhere worth going. If we're doing the right thing, obstruction and sabotage will make the change without masks, and nobody hurt. <BR/><BR/>A great man invoked an old saying to make a point about guns: When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.snug.bughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09412792156178127582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8001742444371356847.post-3857931138360386042007-10-23T23:21:00.000-07:002007-10-23T23:21:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.snug.bughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09412792156178127582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8001742444371356847.post-43273647291830246932007-10-23T08:37:00.000-07:002007-10-23T08:37:00.000-07:00Great show Carol, thanks for having Sherry on! It'...Great show Carol, thanks for having Sherry on! It's always nice to hear more women's voices in this movement, I gotta say.<BR/><BR/>in truth & solidarity,<BR/>laura<BR/><BR/>P.S. <A HREF="http://www.columbus911truth.org/" REL="nofollow">I've just posted about the show on our website</A>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8001742444371356847.post-84588530093494030882007-10-16T16:13:00.000-07:002007-10-16T16:13:00.000-07:00Good stuff, Carol. Thanks for this and best wishes...Good stuff, Carol. Thanks for this and best wishes.<BR/><BR/>WPWinter Patriothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06966573231074972843noreply@blogger.com