Mass Media Has Failed Me.

Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">Again.</div> Yet again, something mindblowingly important has happend and yet again, the Media didn't bother to inform me, because it's more important that we see who's winning on American Idol. Sometimes I hate this country's values. Anyway here's the real topic;

<a href='http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/11/britain.war.memo/index.html' target='_blank'><span style='color:white'><span style='font-size:15pt;line-height:100%'>Private War Memo from the U.S. to the U.K. revealed.</span></span></a>
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Eighty-nine Democratic members of the U.S. Congress last week sent President George W. Bush a letter asking for explanation of a secret British memo that said "intelligence and facts were being fixed" to support the Iraq war in mid-2002.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->More to the point;
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->British officials did not dispute the document's authenticity,<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Anyway. Someone with better eyes than me, please read this, tell me I'm and idiot and I missed something so I can go to bed and not care.
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  • moultanomoultano Creator of ns_shiva. Join Date: 2002-12-14 Member: 10806Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Gold, NS2 Community Developer, Pistachionauts
    wow.
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  • Code9Code9 Bored and running out of ammunition. Join Date: 2003-11-29 Member: 23740Members
    Dissappointing, but shouldn't be unexpected at this point.
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  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    Yeah well I trolled at my school for years about how we forgot the whole WMD thing as soon as we entered that poor misbegotten country. As soon as the troops rolled in, the reasoning and logic rolled out. Why did we go there? Who are we freeing? The resources or the people?
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  • Code9Code9 Bored and running out of ammunition. Join Date: 2003-11-29 Member: 23740Members
    Symptoms of a greater problem, and i'm sorry to say one not isolated to United States.
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    Not to be overly cynical, but how is this something new?
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  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    edited May 2005
    <!--QuoteBegin-lolfighter+May 13 2005, 03:49 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (lolfighter @ May 13 2005, 03:49 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Not to be overly cynical, but how is this something new? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    It confirms things. Have we ever had solid evidence before?

    ::EDIT::
    But why do we have to be so accepting of these decisions. I for one am angry.
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  • SnidelySnidely Join Date: 2003-02-04 Member: 13098Members
    I can't speak for the American side of things, but this doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

    <a href='http://politics.guardian.co.uk/whitehall/story/0,9061,891579,00.html' target='_blank'>Example</a>.
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  • Asal_The_UnforgivingAsal_The_Unforgiving Join Date: 2003-03-26 Member: 14903Members
    Can't say I'm particularly suprised.

    Can say I'm extremely displeased. People like me aren't supposed to be right.
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  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    But why isn't everyone else angry? Why isn't this news circulating so that from the smallest man to the greatest, we all know to the very core that we were lied to and that our leaders no longer respect us. Why is it that this is tolerated, accepted even. Do people just plainly not care?
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  • Asal_The_UnforgivingAsal_The_Unforgiving Join Date: 2003-03-26 Member: 14903Members
    What can I do about it? I've hated bush since he was elected, I voted against him, I can do nothing more. A public outcry MAY work...but now that it's obvious that the government controls the 'free' press, is it really so useful?
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    It's just nothing knew. The leaders of men have despised and lied to their underlings for thousands of years, and this is how it will always be. Liberalism and socialism have been branded as works of the devil, and capitalism is heralded as the grand saviour. We have very effectively declared that we WANT to be screwed over, opressed and lied to. Heck, the very person who's doing this was democratically elected. We ourselves have made the bed that we are now sleeping in.
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  • theclamtheclam Join Date: 2004-08-01 Member: 30290Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Cold NiTe+May 13 2005, 08:36 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cold NiTe @ May 13 2005, 08:36 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> But why isn't everyone else angry? Why isn't this news circulating so that from the smallest man to the greatest, we all know to the very core that we were lied to and that our leaders no longer respect us. Why is it that this is tolerated, accepted even. Do people just plainly not care? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    The press doesn't care. The public doesn't care. Every left-leaning blog on the internet has covered this kind of thing dozens of times.

    What exactly are we supposed to do?
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  • moultanomoultano Creator of ns_shiva. Join Date: 2002-12-14 Member: 10806Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Gold, NS2 Community Developer, Pistachionauts
    I can't wait for someone who voted for this guy to come in and try to explain this.
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  • BadKarmaBadKarma The Advanced Literature monsters burned my house and gave me a 7 Join Date: 2002-11-12 Member: 8260Members
    Well, apparantly most of your country voted for him.
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  • SnidelySnidely Join Date: 2003-02-04 Member: 13098Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Cold NiTe+May 13 2005, 08:36 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cold NiTe @ May 13 2005, 08:36 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> But why isn't everyone else angry? Why isn't this news circulating so that from the smallest man to the greatest, we all know to the very core that we were lied to and that our leaders no longer respect us. Why is it that this is tolerated, accepted even. Do people just plainly not care? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Blair saw his majority cut by something like a hundred seats. Iraq was definately a factor.
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  • AllUrHiveRblong2usAllUrHiveRblong2us By Your Powers Combined... Join Date: 2002-12-20 Member: 11244Members
    edited May 2005
    <!--QuoteBegin-theclam+May 13 2005, 11:28 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (theclam @ May 13 2005, 11:28 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> What exactly are we supposed to do? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Put a sock in a bottle and light it on fire, that's what you're supposed to do.
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  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-theclam+May 13 2005, 11:28 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (theclam @ May 13 2005, 11:28 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->What exactly are we supposed to do?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    <!--QuoteBegin-Asal The Unforgiving+May 13 2005, 09:11 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Asal The Unforgiving @ May 13 2005, 09:11 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->What can I do about it?  [...] I can do nothing more.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    These kinds of attitudes are what hold us back! Come on guys, proactive thought! Who can be contacted with this information that would likely publicize it? I could talk to my mom's boyfriend, he runs KERA, our local PBS station. That could help, since he might encourage someone on Frontline or some other news show.

    Defeated by the system? Don't give me that, we <i>are</i> the system in a democracy.
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    That's assuming we actually ARE in a democracy.
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  • SDJasonSDJason Join Date: 2003-05-29 Member: 16841Members
    Im reminded of a single number...

    1984

    Go read it.....

    ~Jason
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  • SkySky Join Date: 2004-04-23 Member: 28131Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-BadKarma+May 13 2005, 12:36 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (BadKarma @ May 13 2005, 12:36 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Well, apparantly most of your country voted for him. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    No, most of the people who voted in the last election voted for him. That group of people is distinctly different from the population as a whole.
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  • X_StickmanX_Stickman Not good enough for a custom title. Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15533Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-Cold NiTe+May 14 2005, 01:52 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cold NiTe @ May 14 2005, 01:52 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-theclam+May 13 2005, 11:28 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (theclam @ May 13 2005, 11:28 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->What exactly are we supposed to do?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    <!--QuoteBegin-Asal The Unforgiving+May 13 2005, 09:11 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Asal The Unforgiving @ May 13 2005, 09:11 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->What can I do about it?  [...] I can do nothing more.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    These kinds of attitudes are what hold us back! Come on guys, proactive thought! Who can be contacted with this information that would likely publicize it? I could talk to my mom's boyfriend, he runs KERA, our local PBS station. That could help, since he might encourage someone on Frontline or some other news show.

    Defeated by the system? Don't give me that, we <i>are</i> the system in a democracy. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    What have you done? Gotten angry and posted on an internet "discussion" forum.

    A very few people can make a difference, yes, and history has shown it to a certain extent. But those few people are very, very rare. No one here will do anything. I won't do anything because to be honest, I don't really care.

    I also don't think that anything I do will make a difference. The trouble is, EVERYONE thinks like that. So nothing ever gets done.
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  • LegatLegat Join Date: 2003-07-02 Member: 17868Members
    edited May 2005
    <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I can't wait for someone who voted for this guy to come in and try to explain this.
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    They won't even try. They will tell you the descision was right, the world is safer and Iraq is a better place now.
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  • TommyVercettiTommyVercetti Join Date: 2003-02-10 Member: 13390Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    <!--QuoteBegin-BadKarma+May 13 2005, 11:36 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (BadKarma @ May 13 2005, 11:36 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Well, apparantly most of your <b>voting machines</b> voted for him. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Fixed.

    Nothing of this nature surprises me anymore. I hate it, but I cannot change it so I don't worry about it. Until the proles start caring, it won't change.

    BTW, just started 1984. It's a good book, there are tons of references to it in Half-Life 2.
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