[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [SRRTAC-L:7553] Wrods to ponder from a SRRT Memeber

[Al Kagan]

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>Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 13:26:44 -0500 (EST)
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>Subject: [SRRTAC-L:7553] Wrods to ponder from a SRRT Memeber
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>Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 07:24:17 -0500
>From: Terry Link <link at MAIL.LIB.MSU.EDU>
>
>Tlinksters, I managed to arrive at the workplace through snow and ice at
>6:40a.m. today. Not sure how I'll get home tonight given the weather
>predictions. Not to worry, I know kind people who would house me. I share
>the attached link to a piece by Howard Zinn in this week's Nation as a
>response to Bush's State of the Union [although it wasn't written with that
>intention]. My wonderful wife, Ellen pointed it to me when I got home last
>night. It's not terribly long, but it does take some effort to read it all
>the way through to its conclusion - but I urge you all to do so.  Before
>reading that piece here's a short piece forwarded to me this morning by a
>tlinkster.
>
>  I have friends on this list who live in Kansas City where news reports say
>they may be without power for a few days do to the ice storm that is just
>reaching us here in Michigan during the night. We are all fortunate to have
>lived in a country of wealth and resources even when the power goes out.
>Blessings to you all.
>
>
>>From Lloyd deMause:
>
>In fear that the dying down of the war in Afghanistan will mean a
>disastrous lack of an Enemy, George Bush gave a State of the Union
>message last night that was without doubt the most paranoid of any of
>the dozens I have done a Fantasy Analysis of from the past 50 years.
>Called his "Axis of Evil" speech by the NY Times, the Fantasy
>Analysis (choosing only the most emotional words and only family
>terms out of the nouns) shows one long string of paranoid total
>disaster fantasy terms, without one single piece of evidence that
>imminent disaster stares America in the face. The opening reads:
>
>war danger shock destroyed starvation oppression [wild cheers]
>sacrifice terror mothers daughters captives war terror justice sons
>died boy daddy love
>fears death hatred death madness destruction war terror killers
>murder time-bombs parasites terror [wild cheers]
>mothers dead children evil destruction catastrophic destructive
>action fight attack
>[wild cheers]
>. . .
>As Bush was a cheerleader in his family, in high school and in
>college, this was in fact a cheerleading session, getting our rage up
>for an attack on the "Axis of Evil" nations ("Iraq, Iran and North
>Korea" he said).
>
>To press forward Bush's paranoid point that imminent disaster is all
>around us now, the NY Post published next to his speech a map of the
>U.S. pointing to dozens of American cities and listing in each one
>"Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, etc." with thousands of
>terrorists ready to strike.
>
>[For rules and samples of Fantasy Analysis, see "The Psychogenic
>Theory of History" on www.psychohistory.com}
>
>_ _ _ _ _ _
>here's the Zinn piece "The Others"
>
>http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020211
><http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020211&s=zinn> &s=zinn

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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
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