Coffins - not seeing them - what has been hanging over my head.

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Back in 2002 and early 2003 when people who could see what was coming were protesting and moaning about the PNAC determination to invade Iraq ... and formally and blatantly declare our conversion from democracy to imperialism ....

I continually tried to spill my bitterness by writing about the imminent deaths in relation to my bitterness about losing our press. Given the pathos that is forced on us by corporate network jesters who bring us bad news with a lilt in the voice and feigned drama (and way too noticeable music) ... I was always posting comments about the war and the way networks informed us, propagandized us, denied us.

In various ways I described the pending coverage at airports and cemetaries where jester-hosts would describe the views of caskets and I would end it with - then ... cut to a commercial.

Following shock and awe it was immediately noticeable that all coverage of casket scenes were blocked.

I felt that what I and others wrote were the cause of the decision. I felt that I had cheated myself and others who wanted/needed to see them and agonize with the families. I know it sounds ridiculous that posters on a forum could cause a change in coverage, but who would have guessed that they would abruptly change the tradition of including us in our sacrifices.

Then, I became more bitter during the prison revelations.

They didn't want to us to see our soldiers coming home - equally - to not wanting us to see the torture. Remember how upset they were when the photos of the caskets inside a transport carrier got out? If ever there is a case of networks working for politicians - we've seen it here in worse form then in the USSR - because they EXPECT us to believe that we are being provided with fair and balanced coverage.

I say it's all about shame - they hide the shame of those of ours who brought us the war - just as they never bring us profiles and interviews with families in Iraq and how they are getting along. Nada. All controlled whether it does us any good or not.

We are imbedded citizens - where inbedded is the same as controlled.

Well, this country is all about control, domination, ownership of our souls, ownership of the gorund under our country and all the others, and our submissiveness - delivered to us by court jester employees of big corporations with big war interests for their friends, directors, and stockholders.

I'm reminded of all this while reading about John Cusack in the interview related to the new movie, 'Grace Is Gone.
in which it is said:

"First-time director James C. Strouse's script came Cusack's way at just the right moment. Angry that the Bush administration had banned media footage of coffins coming home bearing soldiers killed in Iraq, Cusack had been looking to tell the story behind one of those coffins."


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