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I REALLY hate media organizations, or any organizations, who pretend to offer an open discussion forum, and then censor people who seriously challenge the status quo. For example, I wanted to see if anyone at all is outraged over the bridge collapse in Minneapolis. I went to the Minnesota Public Radio web page. There were a few comments like "you know, road salt is really bad for steel bridges" and "this is really going to be a nightmare for commuters". So I dove in and submitted a comment like, "After 9/11, and the flooding of New Orleans, and all the casualties in Iraq, and all these mine disasters, where the companies are cited and cited and cited for safety violations and nothing happens to them, the message to the American people from their government has become clear - your lives are cheap. Both parties in Congress just approved, almost unanimously, a $459.6 BILLION dolllar military spending bill, and that DOESN'T include yet more money for Iraq and Afghanistan, which will be voted on later. What are we doing in the Middle East that is more important than repairing our own bridges? Why did we invade Iraq instead of going after the small band of terrorists who attacked us? Why, with a budget over $400 BILLION dollars can't the government protect us from a small band of terrorists, armed with box cutters? It just doesn't add up. We need one of those "people power" movements that we see in other countries. The "military-industrial complex" doesn't have our best interests at heart." And guess what? They didn't post it, or if they did, I can't find it, which is as good as not posting it. Another reason the U.S. is so screwed up - many voices are never heard and the status quo is defended, rather than questioned, by the press. NOW I've had my say at www.thoughts.com, so there!
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Posted by friendofnemo on 2007-08-07 18:12:26 | Rating: | Views: 113
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I can understand why they would go to Iraq, to look fro the people responsible, and it was actually a good decision to let the poeple decide sadam's fate, but I ask why we are still there and the say things like "we need to help them revolutionize their governmet" I don't nderstand why they can't so it on there own, like not letting a child ever try on its own, we can't stay there forever can we??
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Posted by Inurei
on 2007-08-14 16:04:35
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Actually, the people in Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Al Queda had bases in Afghanistan, but was not operating out of Iraq. Supposedly, Ira
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Posted by friendofnemo
on 2007-08-16 03:48:50
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q has weapons of mass destruction (like the U.S., Britain, France, Israel, Russia, China, Pakistan, India and North Korea). But they didn't after all. Whoops! It's good Saadam is gone, but if we had been sincere it would have been a quick election and then "adios Iraq". Obviously we are sticking around because we want "our people" to be the ones in power, whether the Iraqis like it or not. Any government that needs foreign troops to prop it up is not a popular government.
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Posted by friendofnemo
on 2007-08-16 03:51:20
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My family spent over a year in New Orleans AFTER Katrina trying to rebuild. It's my thought that once the media stopped reporting about Hurricane Katrina the US believed that the problem was fixed. I am here to tell you that it will take in excess of 10 years to fix the damage in that area!
People forget that NEW ORLEANS (which became the where I keep my soul) was not the only place struck by Katrina!! All the media ever talked about was Louisiana .... MISSISSIPPI was hit too!! One town in particular was Waveland. It was flattened!! Now as much as I love New Orleans and all of Louisiana a whole lotta places where ignored during Katrina!!
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Posted by angehavok
on 2007-08-20 00:21:48
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I agree with your opinion and I am not ever an American! Not to say that where I live the government is any better.
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Posted by consistentlyincon...
on 2007-08-24 18:28:16
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