Solly
March 11th 2003, 09:50 AM
From the article linked below:
AN AMERICAN HISTORY OF MEDIA MANIPULATION AND ABUSE
This nation has a considerable historical precedent for its actions against Iraq in the persons of Native Americans. The media has always been used to preparing public acceptance for that which would normally be unacceptable to a citizenry fixated on the idea that its own concept of morals should be the standard for the world.
The media is called the "fourth estate" for more than just a convenient title. It simply means that, in addition to the other three estates of government--executive, legislative and judicial--the media is no more than an unofficial branch of the government. And like the others it, for the most part, "dances with the one that brung it."
The media cooperation given the government in its propaganda assault on Iraq's moral position seems strongly reminiscent of another such "information" blitz in American history.
"They are a dissolute, vagabondish, brutal, and ungrateful race and ought to be wiped from the face of the earth"
--Rocky Mountain News editorial March, 1863.
In that same year, of 27 articles dealing with Native American Indians, 20 called for their extermination. The white American citizenry of that time was thoroughly indoctrinated by the media with the concept that death was the only viable solution to resolve government problems with the Cheyenne and Arapaho nations.
The Rocky Mountain News also published the editorial comment in August 1864, "go for them, their lodges, squaws and all." [6]
L. Frank Baum, author of The Wizard of Oz, was the editor of the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer at the time of the massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota in 1891. Ten days prior to that infamous occurrence Baum, in an editorial, urged a campaign of genocidal extermination against all Native Americans. "The nobility of the Redskin is extinguished," Baum wrote, "and what few are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them. The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians." Here is a respected American editor damning the Indians for defending themselves and their ancestral lands, and then damning them when they stop and want peace. Will the Iraqis suffer the same excoriation because they have now bowed the knee to the United Nations?
"Why not annihilation?", Baum continues his assault upon the Indian. "Their glory has fled, their spirit broken, their manhood effaced; better that they should die than live, miserable wretches that they are." A week and a half later the Sioux would lie dead on the snow-covered ground of Wounded Knee. Baum, later expressing his approval of the slaughter said, "we had better, in order to protect our civilization, follow it up...and wipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the earth."
And where were the "Christians" during this part of American history? The most infamous massacre of American Indians, next to the incident at Wounded Knee, was the 200 killed and mutilated, mostly woman and children, of a largely disarmed Cheyenne village at Sand Creek, Colorado. The Massacre was led by a Methodist minister, Col. John Chivington, according to the United Methodist News Service (UMNS).
"Ironically, Chivington not only received a commendation for his attack on these people but was honored both by Coloradans and Methodists at his death in October 1894 as a hero and pioneer." (ibid.)
Link (http://thewinds.arcsnet.net/archive/government/nuke_iraq03-98.html)
This thread is dedicated to those who think the only truth is American Truth.
AN AMERICAN HISTORY OF MEDIA MANIPULATION AND ABUSE
This nation has a considerable historical precedent for its actions against Iraq in the persons of Native Americans. The media has always been used to preparing public acceptance for that which would normally be unacceptable to a citizenry fixated on the idea that its own concept of morals should be the standard for the world.
The media is called the "fourth estate" for more than just a convenient title. It simply means that, in addition to the other three estates of government--executive, legislative and judicial--the media is no more than an unofficial branch of the government. And like the others it, for the most part, "dances with the one that brung it."
The media cooperation given the government in its propaganda assault on Iraq's moral position seems strongly reminiscent of another such "information" blitz in American history.
"They are a dissolute, vagabondish, brutal, and ungrateful race and ought to be wiped from the face of the earth"
--Rocky Mountain News editorial March, 1863.
In that same year, of 27 articles dealing with Native American Indians, 20 called for their extermination. The white American citizenry of that time was thoroughly indoctrinated by the media with the concept that death was the only viable solution to resolve government problems with the Cheyenne and Arapaho nations.
The Rocky Mountain News also published the editorial comment in August 1864, "go for them, their lodges, squaws and all." [6]
L. Frank Baum, author of The Wizard of Oz, was the editor of the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer at the time of the massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota in 1891. Ten days prior to that infamous occurrence Baum, in an editorial, urged a campaign of genocidal extermination against all Native Americans. "The nobility of the Redskin is extinguished," Baum wrote, "and what few are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them. The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians." Here is a respected American editor damning the Indians for defending themselves and their ancestral lands, and then damning them when they stop and want peace. Will the Iraqis suffer the same excoriation because they have now bowed the knee to the United Nations?
"Why not annihilation?", Baum continues his assault upon the Indian. "Their glory has fled, their spirit broken, their manhood effaced; better that they should die than live, miserable wretches that they are." A week and a half later the Sioux would lie dead on the snow-covered ground of Wounded Knee. Baum, later expressing his approval of the slaughter said, "we had better, in order to protect our civilization, follow it up...and wipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the earth."
And where were the "Christians" during this part of American history? The most infamous massacre of American Indians, next to the incident at Wounded Knee, was the 200 killed and mutilated, mostly woman and children, of a largely disarmed Cheyenne village at Sand Creek, Colorado. The Massacre was led by a Methodist minister, Col. John Chivington, according to the United Methodist News Service (UMNS).
"Ironically, Chivington not only received a commendation for his attack on these people but was honored both by Coloradans and Methodists at his death in October 1894 as a hero and pioneer." (ibid.)
Link (http://thewinds.arcsnet.net/archive/government/nuke_iraq03-98.html)
This thread is dedicated to those who think the only truth is American Truth.