[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Proposal

[C. G. Estabrook]

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> From: "C. G. Estabrook" <cge at shout.net>
> Subject: Re: Proposal
> Date: March 30, 2016 at 9:28:15 AM CDT
> To: David Johnson <davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net>
> Cc: davegreen84 at yahoo.com, karenaram at hotmail.com, kmedina67 at gmail.com, Ron Szoke <r-szoke at illinois.edu>, stuartnlevy at gmail.com, salevy at illinois.edu
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> David—
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> The purpose of AWARE ON THE AIR has been to publicize in the local community the war-making of the ‘greatest purveyor of violence in the world today’ - especially while we have an administration that is particularly good at hiding it.
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> I’ve never understood how that goal is enhanced by proving that Cheney did 9/11 - or that Johnson killed Kennedy, Stanton killed Lincoln, or the Praetorian Guard killed Caligula. 
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> All may be true, but I think irrelevant to what the US government is doing today, which the populace is largely hoodwinked into approving. As Chomsky says, “the general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.” Obama is not running the most extreme terrorist campaign of modern times - the drone assassination program - because of a counter-attack to US Mideast policy almost 15 years ago.
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> I’ve always liked Thomas Pynchon’s ‘proverb for paranoids’: "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.” 
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> For example, as Glen Ford says, "If Hillary Clinton can make the general election into a crusade against ‘bigotry' and ‘intolerance' as embodied by Donald Trump, she can win with an otherwise issue-less campaign, thus shielding the 1% from harm.” 
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> And a new administration can expand Obama’s terrorism, as Obama expanded Bush’s. That’s what AWARE is supposed to oppose.
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> That doesn’t preclude talking about 9/11 (or the judeocide) but we should resist distraction - which the Obama administration is particularly good at. 
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> Chomsky observes that, as in the JFK case, 9/11 conspiracy theories “draw enormous amounts of time and energy away from serious activism on urgent matters (and may well be welcome to those in power for that reason, as the JFK assassination investigations have been, so internal government documents indicate).” He refers to a think-tank report to the Pentagon of 1998, ‘Operations Security Impact on Declassification Management Within the Department of Defense’, which discusses the release of “interesting declassified material — i.e. Kennedy assassination data” as a way to “reduce the unrestrained public appetite for ‘secrets’ by providing good faith distraction material.”
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> And I’ve come to think that giving air-time to what Francis is saying is a distraction from what AWARE should be doing.
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> Regards, CGE
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>> On Mar 28, 2016, at 12:02 PM, David Johnson <davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> Carl,
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>> As you and others in AWARE know, I do NOT believe the so called “ official “ version of the 9-11 2001 attacks. 
>> And I would be happy to debate it with you or anyone else publicly on air if you wish.
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>> I have never pressed the issue ( except once a year on the World Labor Hour radio program and three programs on Labor’s World View TV during the month of September.) on AWARE on the air or News from Neptune out of respect for you ( and others ) who disagree with me ( and the real facts ) as well as the fact that there are many other problems we have to focus on and attend to and should not be focused on only one issue among many.
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>> With that said, I do NOT think we should give a platform to Stephen Francis and his anti-Semitic opinions. In my opinion that should be the ONLY reason to not invite him on the program.
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>> As much as I believe in free speech and debate, I draw the line with racism and Misogyny.
>> Stephen Francis can find another venue or apply for his own UPTV TV program.
>> That I will not oppose.
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>> Sincerely
>> 
>> David Johnson  
>> 

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