[antimedia] antimedia: I've been searching for two days....

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Posted by antimedia:
I've been searching for two days....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1176518610.shtml


   ....for a way to express what I'm feeling right now. I think almost
   half the country [1]has gone completely mad, and if Steven is right,
   the Kennedy assassination is the touchstone of that insanity. In the
   past few days I have read some of the most insane "reasoning" you can
   possibly imagine.
   I'll confess. For a long time I believed in the possibility that a
   conspiracy was behind Kennedy's assassination. For many years that
   thought lingered in the back of my mind, never consuming my thoughts
   but festering nonetheless. That all changed, however, when I watched
   [2]the PBS special that aired on the 40^th anniversary of that tragic
   event. Once the facts were presented, there was no question in my mind
   that Oswald acted alone. The facts were too overwhelming to leave any
   doubt.
   For many people, however, the Kennedy assassination (and the
   subsequent assassinations of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King)
   shattered their faith in government forever. Now they are willing to
   believe any wild story that comes along. So much so that the fact that
   they actually watched planes fly into the World Trade Center buildings
   doesn't deter for one second their willingness to believe that the
   government blew the buildings up as a pretext for war.
   It doesn't help that our educational system is in such a state of
   disrepair that college graduates can neither spell correctly nor think
   logically. Emotion now reigns supreme, replacing reason with "concern"
   and "caring" that manifest themselves in some of the most discordant
   thinking imaginable.
   Feminists, who supposedly care about women's rights, ignore the brutal
   suppression of women in the Arab culture while screaming about
   government conspiracies that don't exist. Liberals, who claim they
   care about human rights, ignore the suffering of millions to complain
   bitterly about the imagined loss of their own right to read library
   books without government interference. Gay people rant and rave about
   a "facist" government while ignoring gays who are beaten and hanged in
   other countries. Journalists pontificate about a "secretive"
   administration while ignoring terrorists who move among them plotting
   their destruction. Scholars who owe their existence to this great
   country teach future generations that the country isn't worth fighting
   for and should not be proud of its past.
   Americans, who should have learned about their government in school,
   see nothing wrong with Congress usurping the executive's authority or
   the courts making laws that erode our freedoms. No one seems to
   understand that once a door has been opened, it becomes measurably
   more difficult to close.
   Meanwhile, our politicians work overtime to "ensure" their future, not
   caring or even knowing that, if they destroy the country in the
   process, their futures or that of their children will be bleak. Not
   even the pleading of their constituents deters them in their quest for
   wealth and power, while they denigrate our forefathers and trash our
   past.
   If we do not turn America around soon, I fear for this country. Far
   too many do not understand that America's future is not guaranteed and
   the peace and prosperity we enjoy now can be gone in mere years.
   Nothing is certain. Certainly not the future.

References

   1. http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000140.html
   2. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/white_house/kennedy/