[Nettime-bold] tears on command

[stefaan van ryssen <svr4m@pophost.eunet.be>]

Politicians and media try to sell us the attack on the WTC and the Pentagon
as an attack on freedom and democracy.
Obviously, the symbols that have been struck have nothing to do with 
freedom, unless this is defined as free trade or the right of US and 
worldwide capital to exploit the masses in the First, Second, Third and 
Fourth worlds. Neither is the Pentagon a symbol of democracy. It is simply 
the head quarters of the military power of the US, a nation that has killed 
more civilians over the past fifty years than any other in world history.

If this is an act of war, the victims are no more than 'collaterla damage', 
a phrase used when the US and Nato attacked civilian and military targets 
in Iraq.

And now, after being ordered to eat mcd's 'food', wear Nike shoes, smoke 
Phillip Morris cigarettes and drink a sweet brownish concoction called 
Cola, we are ordered to shed tears and be silent for three minutes. We are 
commanded to grieve in preparation of a self-declared war.

If there needs to be silence, let it be an hour, for the millions who died 
in Viet Nam, Kamputchea, Grenada, Panama, Burundi, Iraq, Palestine, 
Nicaragua and the ghetto's of the US.

Stefaan Van Ryssen
	UIT LIEFDE VOOR HET VIRTUELE EN HET DIGITALE
	     PAR AMOUR DU VIRTUEL ET DU DIGITAL
	   FOR LOVE OF THE VIRTUAL AND THE DIGITAL
           Stefaan Van Ryssen, magister cypernicus
                Jan Delvinlaan 114, b-9000 Gent
			 (09) 228 19 89


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