why do we let our corporate masters define who is a "terrorist?"

[datasuspect]

does our shared set of cultural assumptions blind us to the idea that maybe some people in the arab world actually have some legitimate beefs?

some may not agree with "terrorist" methods, but the US government has used methods like al qaeda's in our country's past.

and what is with the dismissive streak that our owners like to throw around like so much cut and dried truth? why does being arab and pissed at the U.S. serve as the sole basis to nullify a person's humanity, to make whatever they say invalid by definition?

i dunno, i watch the teevee news product and the people who are on the receiving end of our taxpayer-dependent defense budget look a lot like me.

what makes the U.S. or Israel so fucking special?

some may disagree with the term "corporate masters" i find myself giggling writing it, but can anyone really deny that the US govt. is a wholly owned subsidiary of entrenched financial interests?

we have the best system money can buy.

but ask yourself what are assuming when you rail against those "others." what are you bringing to the table with you? do you even question those presuppositions? or is just as simple as terrorism "bad" and murka "good?"

[LaurenG]

1. I have a tin foil hat theory

that I'm beginning to be very fond of.

Personally I don't buy into the corporate version of terrorists. This is another way to keep the minds and hearts of Americans held hostage.

Don't get me wrong I'm sure there are terrorists that they have named but mostly I believe the terrorist live inside them.

[datasuspect]

2. the american suburban nightmare world

of pastors with child sex fetishes, prescription pill addictions, and other such things?

i could see a case being made for "projection."

but i think it is as simple as the age old "them v. us"

we need an "other" to target.

[LaurenG]

3. Well yes projection

but I do suspect they make up threats for us to fight and be fearful of as well.

[datasuspect]

4. they make shit up

and more sinister, they mold the pattern of approved assumptions with which we are to view the prevailing form of reality they foist upon us.

[bryant69]

5. Well they're our masters, aren't they?

What's the point of being a corporate master if you can't tell other people waht to think?

Bryant
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[datasuspect]

7. that's the point of advertising

and we are pretty much advertised to on a non-stop basis.

[genie_weenie]

6. Us and Them theory.

It's always useful (to some) to divide up those you wish to control or influence into smaller groups. It was used to great effect to divide poor whites and poor blacks in the Ante-bellum South and it's still in use today.

And most United Staters don't know enough about the US military history to understand that the US has brought death and tormet instead of Democracy.