Apr 24
Apocolypse Now
welcome to a world turned on its own ear. We are a people in love with the idea of being in love - and now the chickens have come home to roost. Decadent, we stand before the universe unburdened and convinced of our own greatness. we’ve missed the boat and would rather spend our time talking about why the boat was wrong.
Good versus Evil? Nay, rich versus poor.
this is what happens when your government allows every stream of news and media to be controlled by 5 people. Welcome to the New AT&T: the same raggedy monopoly we broke up decades ago. The end is nigh, the time is now. the next time this happens, we might not catch it. Please, you’ll need your tinfoil hat for this exercise.
WASHINGTON (CNN) – The brother of Army Ranger Pat Tillmantold a House panel on Tuesday that the military tried to spin his
brother’s 2004 death to deflect attention from emerging failings in the
Afghanistan war.
As the tide was turning in the U.S. battle
against Afghan insurgents –and as media outlets prepared to release
reports on detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib in Iraq — the military saw Pat
Tillman’s death as an “opportunity,” Kevin Tillman told the panel.
Though
it was clearly a case of fratricide, the military released a
“manufactured narrative” detailing how Pat Tillman died leading a
courageous counterattack in an Afghan mountain pass, Kevin Tillman
said.
Even after it became clear the report was bogus, the
military clung to the “utter fiction” that Pat Tillman was killed by a
member of his platoon who was following the rules of engagement, the
brother said.
Kevin Tillman bristled at the military claim that the initial report was merely misleading.
Clearly
resentful, he told the panel that writing a field report stating Pat
Tillman had been “transferred to an intensive care unit for continued
CPR after most of his head had been taken off by multiple .556 rounds
is not misleading.”
“These are deliberate and calculated lies,” he said.
*****
Though the military blamed the erroneous report on an inadequate
initial investigation, Mary Tillman told ESPN Radio last month that
everyone involved in the shooting knew immediately that her son had
been shot three times in the head by a member of his platoon.
“That
was not a misstep, that was not an error,” she said. “This was an
attempt to dupe the public and to promote this war and to get
recruitments up, and that is immoral.”
The Defense Department
said last month that nine military officers, including four generals,
would face “corrective action” in connection with Tillman’s death.
The
Tillman family released a statement calling the corrective action a
slap on the wrist, saying, “Once again, we are being used as props in a
Pentagon public relations exercise.”
Thanks Blogoverse: The perpetuation of this lie could never have happened without you. I hope youre all proud of yourselves. One day soon, after waxing conservative on the evils of the liberal media, we’ll all wake up and get a dose of reality. in my reality, Right vs Wrong isnt a political question. Basal respect doesnt come with a party vote. In my world, lies are not tolerated because they make good photo-shootswitness the de-evolution of morality as it bends proportionally to the growth and ubitquity of blogthirst. or rather, witness the de-evolution of morality as the Powers That Be recognise that we’re more interested in feeling good about ourselves than knowing the truth. maybe this will open some eyes.
remember the secret of NIMH: the internet is a series of tubes…
Demonicume
