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To: sea_urchin who wrote (23154)	5/22/2005 12:32:14 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81247

Hi Searle, Re: Perhaps it was always this way but no-one knew. The repugnant fascist-militarist instinct in America is something that is a recurring theme. The Philippines assault in 1898-1906 was equally as bloody and anti-democratic as is the current assault on Iraq. But the overwhelming control of the government and the media by forces of evil in America is something quite new in my experience. Even at the worst of the atrocities of Viet Nam, I wasn't getting the sense that the civil liberties of the American public were being stripped at such a rate as they are today. What is so completely different about this war is the way that the U.S. government and the U.S. media are colluding to provide such disinformation, distraction and outright lies about the aggression and occupation. *** Re: It's almost as if there are two distinct worlds of information/disinformation and belief/disbelief. Back in the bad old days of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin knew that he was opposed by much of the intelligentsia. However, he was in large measure unconcerned about the samizdat, the blogs of another era. Because Stalin knew that the intelligentsia was too small, too ingrown and too lacking in military capability to be much of a threat to his regime. Bush understands the Internet and blogosphere in the U.S. in much the same fashion. The Internet is the arena of the strongest and most vociferous opposition to Bush, but he need not fear this medium because we simply don't come close to a critical mass and tipping point in the conversation, which is still largely controlled by the right wing. Witness the Newsweek flap for a lesson in how this works. Until the anti-war movement can be brought to the public every night on network TV news, Bush is relatively safe.