[Peace] Re: [Peace-discuss] C. Wright Mills, Power Elite, Karma, 9/11, action....

Tue Feb 13 16:41:02 CST 2007

Thanks, Mark, for your reference to Michael Kiefer's useful article  
countering Cockburn et al.

I certainly do not subscribe to the Cockburn's polemic; I consider  
him irrationally obsessed by those who question (the interpretation  
of events of) 9/11.

I would welcome a debate and elucidation of the uncertainties and  
consequences of challenging the official line on 9/11. AWARE could  
well set up a forum for doing this.

I don't think it would detract from the other stuff we do, or stunt  
our brains.

--mkb

On Feb 13, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Mark Morenz wrote:

> Hello Everyone:
>
> In the interests of fairness-- since Cockburn's
> articles (which deride 9/11 skeptics as being "nuts")
> are referenced in Mort's email, I will include a link
> to a mesured response to Mister Cockburn:
> http://www.911scholars.org/Counterpunch06.doc
>
> For me, the importance of this line of questioning is
> self-evident. I hope any individual A.W.A.R.E. members
> who doubt aspects of the official story will at least
> give the skeptics a fair hearing.
>
> Be well!
>
> :-{)]
>
> Mark A. Morenz
>
>
>
> --- "Morton K. Brussel" <brussel at uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> AWARE has discussed possibly giving some time to
>> review of the 9/11
>> story, but some members regard this as a distraction
>> from the current
>> horrors on our plate, especially as much of what has
>> been said of
>> 9/11 doesn't make a lot of sense.  See Counterpunch
>> and The Nation
>> articles by Alex Cockburn.
>>
>> If you are interested, come to one of our meetings
>> and bring up this
>> subject .
>>
>> Mort B.
>>
>>
>> On Feb 13, 2007, at 12:22 AM, n.dahlheim at mchsi.com
>> wrote:
>>
>>> People should really consider reviving C. Wright
>> Mills and the
>>> concept of the Power Elite.  His radical
>>> critique of the Military Metaphysic in American
>> culture and the
>>> mass culture filled with Cheerful Robots
>>> certainly stands today.  His conception of
>> American society as
>>> dominted by an iron triangle of executive
>>> governmental power, corporate finance, and
>> military elites
>>> certainly explains the direction of the United
>>> States over the last 4-5 decades...  We didn't do
>> such a good job
>>> heeding Eisenhower's warnings about
>>> the rise of the military-industrial complex and
>> the covert  "deep"
>>> politics in the furtherance of empire
>>> since that time.  I think America is done.  This
>> system is breaking
>>> down and the rich are robbing us
>>> blind before we are abandoned to social disorder,
>> energy depletion,
>>> racial hatred, and climate change.
>>> Our lack of vigilance and our own national bad
>> karma has given us
>>> the Bush regime, and the best we'll
>>> get in 2008 is Hillary Clinton.  As George Carlin
>> says in Life is
>>> Worth Losing (2005), "The tables are
>>> tilted, the game is rigged, and nobody seems to
>> notice, nobody
>>> seems to care.  And that is what the
>>> owners of this country count on; the American
>> people being
>>> willfully ignorant of the big red, white, and
>>> blue dick being jammed up their asshole
>> everyday..."     If we
>>> really believed in 1963 that an idiot like
>>> Oswald with a cheap Marconi rifle brought down a
>> President who had
>>> angered significant factions of the
>>> military-industrial complex over his cautiousness
>> in Cuba and
>>> Vietnam; we really don't get it.  If we
>>> really don't see that 911 is an inside job... the
>> molten metal, the
>>> controlled demolition of three
>>> skyscrapers hit by only two planes, the stand down
>> of the military,
>>> the lies by the Bushes about
>>> everything else why not 911; well, we deserve the
>> government we
>>> get...  The fact that AWARE won't deal
>>> with 9/11 is a weakness as far as I'm concerned.
>> Our own lack of
>>> vigilance precipitated 9/11.  Not only
>>> that, the fact that the vast majority of the
>> country has done
>>> absolutely nothing to change this rotten
>>> situation is further proof that we get whatever is
>> coming to us.
>>> We should beg for Good Karma and
>>> work to build a better world and take
>> responsibiltiy for ourselves
>>> and our communities.  AWARE's work
>>> in the Champaign-Urbana community stands as a
>> testament to the
>>> knowledge among several activists
>>> of this moral imperative.  All good your way...
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