Shunning is one tool that is available to all of us that has real emotional impact. While shunning, you can take the MSM’s advice and learn to speak the language of moral values. Time to be intolerant and judgmental—what a fucking relief! They’ve been having all the fun all these years. No more!
At times like this, personal characteristics that have always seemed wrong and annoying—like, say, a big mouth you can never keep shut—acquire a new and unexpected value. Enjoy!
In addition to withdrawing affection, attention, respect, and cooperation, we can withdraw something perhaps even more important, namely, our money. Get out of the stock market. Realize that every campaign contribution you make, to either party, enriches the corporate media: boy, do they love a swing state. Those of us who have disposable income need to drastically reduce our spending across the board. Begin by canceling all your newspaper subscriptions, magazines too. Switch from cable to satellite and tell them you’re moving to get Link and Free Speech TV. Set a goal for personal savings that’s ambitious—and then double it. (P.S., these are also common-sense survival tips.)
I also believe that we somehow need to stop paying for disasters, as well. The Red Cross is still a non-profit but don’t forget that Elizabeth Dole is a former president: it’s become a great little corporate enabler, dutifully collaborating with the government agenda in order to protect its funding stream in much the same way PBS does. Neither of them has the balls or the ambition to make the kind of waves that, say, Amnesty International does. Call it a corporate version of Stockholm Syndrome. We have to figure out a way to help disaster victims—and all the victims of globalization—without unintentionally feeding the circling vultures.
We might remember the example of Frances Newton. On the eve of her execution for a crime she clearly did not commit, Newton said she drew strength from the knowledge of her own innocence. In the end, all she could do was look her murderers steadily in the eye. It’s a good beginning, too.
Patricia Goldsmith is a member of Long Island Media Watch, a grassroots free media and democracy watchdog group. She can be reached at plgoldsmith@optonline.net.
This article called "nazi's", sheds light on the image of trust, under the power of our president, George W. Bush. Comman law tells me that two wrongs, don't make a right, under this administration, fifty wrongs can be made right. Through lies & deciet, america has been conned into an unjust battle for our freedom. It comes down to the rich versus the poor. Standard laws of humanity are changing ground, and who owns the gound where this change takes place !? Voting will make a difference in 2006, if enough of the middle & lower income people vote. Nevermind the press, or tv, they own them too.
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