I'm saying that it's annoying listening to people who don't know a damn thing about REALLY living in fear* but who enjoy a bloated consumer lifestyle whine about how horribly their freedom of expression is supposedly threatened by the impoverished people** whose real fear (of stravation-sanctions, of predator drones, of depleted uranium bombs, of random recist detentions and torture) sustains that bloated lifestyle. Clear enough?
*Before anyone brings up 9/11: I was actually living in Manhattan and thought my friends were dead, and spent that day watching the smoke rise and the fighter planes roar overhead, so please, to those who just watched it on TV, I don't want to hear about how I'm downplaying this.
**Yeah, yeah, I know: "Bin Laden is a rich boy. The Saudis have oil money." But the essential economic relationship of the US and western europe to the muslim world is still parasitic. I'm talking forest, not trees.
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Date: 2010-05-22 03:11 pm (UTC)*Before anyone brings up 9/11: I was actually living in Manhattan and thought my friends were dead, and spent that day watching the smoke rise and the fighter planes roar overhead, so please, to those who just watched it on TV, I don't want to hear about how I'm downplaying this.
**Yeah, yeah, I know: "Bin Laden is a rich boy. The Saudis have oil money." But the essential economic relationship of the US and western europe to the muslim world is still parasitic. I'm talking forest, not trees.