We can yet win...

The point is that we cannot rely on the media, as many bloggers advocate, waking up the people, lamenting the fact that the media is biased and doesn’t tell the truth. In fact the media is downright complicit with the Bush/Cheney agenda – look how long it took the New York Times to publish the illegal wire tapping story – a whole year late.

Finally I want to quote Norman Finkelstein’s closing remarks in that video I watched yesterday. For me, at least, it give me great hope and courage that we should press on with our task of getting the message to as many people as possible.

“I’ve grown older, a little bit jaded, a little bit bitter, but I have never, and I wont ever, let go of my belief in those weapons of truth and justice. They are formidable weapons, if, and this is the crucial caveat, if you learn how to weald them. And that takes practice and a lot of hard work. You have to master that record, you have to first learn that it even exists, and then you have to study it. And then you have to show a little bit of backbone, a little bit of spine, a small part of courage.  It’s not a six year old in Gaza, facing a tank with a stone. You are not going to suffer terribly in our society. You may have trouble here and there getting a job, but, you are going to healthy, you are going to be doing a lot better than ninety nine percent of humanity, however rigorous the trails you go through. So if you learn how to master those weapons, those formidable weapons of truth and justice and I remain as confident now as I did when I was the age of most of you in this room. That however much power they have, and they have a lot of power, and however ruthless they are, and they are very ruthless, and however much money they have, and they have lots of money. Despite that, notwithstanding, nonetheless, I still remain utterly, completely, absolutely confident that if we learn how to master those weapons of truth and justice, we can yet win. Thank you.”