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

[Mark Morenz]

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...
> > _______________________________________________
> > Peace-discuss mailing list
> > Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
> >
>
http://lists.chambana.net/cgi-bin/listinfo/peace-discuss
> _______________________________________________
> Peace mailing list
> Peace at lists.chambana.net
> http://lists.chambana.net/cgi-bin/listinfo/peace
> 



 
____________________________________________________________________________________
Finding fabulous fares is fun.  
Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains.
http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097