Fighting terror with ignorance

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Sabian_bel, Oct 23, 2005.

  1. Roman Banned Banned

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    Light had this little gem,
    Very limited? Only the US? Only that particular event? When the US entered the war, no pictures of American war dead were allowed in any form, as it would have been demoralizing to a public already reluctant to engage in another European war. Let's not even begin with the propoganda on the Axis side....


    Sabian,

    quote=so-and-so stuff stuff stuff /quote except with brackets

    And welcome to the forums.


    To the general "Teh media is haxxd!!", does anyone have any real proof? Because I got some published evidence here that says contrawise. Most media has very little influence on people (most cannot remember 2 stories of your average news report) unless
    a) There's mass coverage
    b) opinions of an issue are weak or non-existant

    This is because most people don't watch news programs, and when people do watch them, they aren't very focused.
     
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  3. MetaKron Registered Senior Member

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    The US government is using terrorism to oppress us by teaching us to fear it so much and that the government is our only resource to stop the fear.
     
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  5. duendy Registered Senior Member

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    the ones with the mega dosh/power/shadow goverment/Illuminati USE the fronts/Left&Right to maintain thier power structure.......they will create propaganda to create and have backing for wars which use illegal weapons like Depleted Uranium which is even killing their own soldiers...slowly. they do not care at all for the young men,and women/'soldiers', so you tellin me they care for blowing to bits and maiming for life a 'few' of their 'useless eaters'?....do you? please let me know?
     
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  7. changa was far, is near Registered Senior Member

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    First of all, the perception that terrorism is one big thing, and if we managed to bring down those terrorists all would be well... That's a fairy tale. Terrorists are just people who are pissed off enough to take up arms in an unconventional manner. They have existed and will exist in every human society since the beginning of time.

    Second, of course there's a media blackout in America, it's just kept to the correct level. You don't see pictures of dead American soldiers, because photographers who release those go to jail. You don't see the violent pictures from Abu G, because congress has those. And to those who claim the media has no influence, I suspect you heard that via the media. QED.

    Third, it's not a conspiracy, or if it's a conspiracy, then everyone in the USA is participating in it. We only hear what we want to hear, no-one is smothering the truth, we just choose to ignore it. Denial is a very powerful thing (actually, it's not).
     
  8. MetaKron Registered Senior Member

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    Even within the media blackout, we can see that the "war on terror" is claiming a lot more lives than terrorism did or maybe even could. We're just using 9/11 as an excuse to make a lot of them die, a lot of our people suffer and die, and to take away even more of our civil liberties in case a civil liberty might be involved in terrorism somehow.

    This is doing a lot against us and others, and not a lot for us. The last four years and change have gone a long ways towards inspiring people to terrorist acts who weren't motivated that way before, too. The world is now a more dangerous place. The Shiites are in charge of Iraq, which is a lot worse than before.
     
  9. Hagar Registered Senior Member

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    What is media? What is your idea of media? Let us take into consideration that almost 90% of you blamed the media yet that would imply that many of you follow this very media and that although you harbor some grudge against it you don't seem to be doing a damn thing to stop it. I don't know what's more facinating: the so-called media distortion of reality or the popular hatred of the "media".
     
  10. nirakar ( i ^ i ) Registered Senior Member

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    Just being here at sciforums instead of being in front of a tv is a step against the media.

    The media always distorted reality but now when the media does bad reporting the internet sometimes exposes the bad reporting.
     
  11. duendy Registered Senior Member

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    IS there a 'popular' hatred of the media?
     
  12. Michael 歌舞伎 Valued Senior Member

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    maybe we should:
    http://www.transbuddha.com/mediaHolder.php?id=940

    LOL Haaaa … that was so funny

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    America’s rich invent a war and then use it as a pretext to suck all our savings into their bank accounts by awarding contracts to the companies they own stock in or sit on the board for.

    But, hay, if we’re really that f*cking stupid maybe we disserve to fight and die in a pointless diversion and the rich probably desire our money anyway.

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  13. Neildo Gone Registered Senior Member

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    WTH? Sad.

    Heck, I wonder if some people would have fallen for it if they changed the name of America to Iran or some other place and then put a pin to invade us. Place America in Europe, Mexico in Northern Africa, and Africa in South America or something. God, people need to learn their frickin' geography! We really need some sort of standardized tests to be taken before these morons are eligable to vote.

    - N
     
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