My boy says that many of radio stations practice "censoring" on many of the raps and hip-hops..

I do know that Wal-Mart gives do the same thing on the cd's They would call it a cleaned version of music..

Nuts!

Jacob Levich's Bush's Orwellian Address (english) Wednesday 26 Sep 2001 author: Jacob Levich

summary OUR READER JACOB LEVICH: HAPPY NEW YEAR: IT'S 1984BUSH'S ALARMING SPEECH POINTED TO A SHADOWY ENEMY THAT LURKS IN MORE 60 COUNTRIES, INCLUDING THE US

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Man, everything's upside down: Another very good article from Pravda on the attacks and US responses (source URL: http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/09/24/16031.html)

Bush's Orwellian Address

Happy New Year: It's 1984

by Jacob Levich

Seventeen years later than expected, 1984 has arrived. In his address to Congress Thursday, George Bush effectively declared permanent war -- war without temporal or geographic limits; war without clear goals; war against a vaguely defined and constantly shifting enemy. Today it's Al-Qaida; tomorrow it may be Afghanistan; next year, it could be Iraq or Cuba or Chechnya. No one who was forced to read 1984 in high school could fail to hear a faint bell tinkling. In George Orwell's dreary classic, the totalitarian state of Oceania is perpetually at war with either Eurasia or Eastasia. Although the enemy changes periodically, the war is permanent; its true purpose is to control dissent and sustain dictatorship by nurturing popular fear and hatred.

The permanent war undergirds every aspect of Big Brother's authoritarian program, excusing censorship, propaganda, secret police, and privation. In other words, it's terribly convenient.

And conveniently terrible. Bush's alarming speech pointed to a shadowy enemy that lurks in more 60 countries, including the US. He announced a policy of using maximum force against any individuals or nations he designates as our enemies, without color of international law, due process, or democratic debate.

He explicitly warned that much of the war will be conducted in secret. He rejected negotiation as a tool of diplomacy. He announced starkly that any country that doesn't knuckle under to US demands will be regarded as an enemy. He heralded the creation of a powerful new cabinet-level police agency called the "Office of Homeland Security." Orwell couldn't have named it better.

By turns folksy ("Ya know what?") and chillingly bellicose ("Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists"), Bush stepped comfortably into the role of Big Brother, who needs to be loved as well as feared. Meanwhile, his administration acted swiftly to realize the governing principles of Oceania:

WAR IS PEACE. A reckless war that will likely bring about a deadly cycle of retaliation is being sold to us as the means to guarantee our safety. Meanwhile, we've been instructed to accept the permanent war as a fact of daily life. As the inevitable slaughter of innocents unfolds overseas, we are to "live our lives and hug our children."

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. "Freedom itself is under attack," Bush said, and he's right. Americans are about to lose many of their most cherished liberties in a frenzy of paranoid legislation. The government proposes to tap our phones, read our email and seize our credit card records without court order. It seeks authority to detain and deport immigrants without cause or trial. It proposes to use foreign agents to spy on American citizens. To save freedom, the warmongers intend to destroy it.

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. America's "new war" against terrorism will be fought with unprecedented secrecy, including heavy press restrictions not seen for years, the Pentagon has advised. Meanwhile, the sorry history of American imperialism -- collaboration with terrorists, bloody proxy wars against civilians, forcible replacement of democratic governments with corrupt dictatorships -- is strictly off-limits to mainstream media. Lest it weaken our resolve, we are not to be allowed to understand the reasons underlying the horrifying crimes of September 11.

The defining speech of Bush's presidency points toward an Orwellian future of endless war, expedient lies, and ubiquitous social control. But unlike 1984's doomed protagonist, we've still got plenty of space to maneuver and plenty of ways to resist.

It's time to speak and to act. It falls on us now to take to the streets, bearing a clear message for the warmongers: We don't love Big Brother.

Jacob Levich (jlevich@earthlink.net) is an writer, editor, and activist living in Queens, New York.

When rain drops fall and you feel low Ah, do you ever think it's useless Do you feel like letting go Do you ever sit and do you wonder Will the world ever change And just how long will it take To have it all rearranged

Tell me why these things are still the same Tell me why no one can seem to learn from mistakes

Take my hand if you don't know where your goin' I'll understand, I've lost the way myself Oh, don't take that old road it leads to nowhere We must return before the clock strikes twelve

It's so easy to do nothin' When you're busy night and day Take a step in one direction And take a step the other way So don't stop tryin' when you stumble Don't give up should you fall Keep on searchin' for the passway That will lead you through the wall Don't look back or you'll be left behind Don't look back or you will never find peace of mind

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You thought the leaden winter would bring you down forever, But you rode upon a steamer to the violence of the sun.

And the colours of the sea bind your eyes with trembling mermaids, And you touch the distant beaches with tales of brave Ulysses, How his naked ears were tortured by the sirens sweetly singing, For the sparkling waves are calling you to kiss their white laced lips.

And you see a girl's brown body dancing through the turquoise, And her footprints make you follow where the sky loves the sea. And when your fingers find her, she drowns you in her body, Carving deep blue ripples in the tissues of your mind.

The tiny purple fishes run laughing through your fingers, And you want to take her with you to the hard land of the winter.

Her name is Aphrodite and she rides a crimson shell, And you know you cannot leave her for you touched the distant sands With tales of brave Ulysses, how his naked ears were tortured By the sirens sweetly singing.

Barry McGuire (P.F. Sloan) Courtesy of MCA Records, Inc. The eastern world, It is explodin', Violence flarin', Bullets loadin', You're old enough to kill, But not for votin', You don't believe in war, But what's that gun you're totin', And even the Jordan river has bodies floatin',

But you tell me over and over and over again my friend, Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Don't you understand what I'm trying to say? Can't you feel the fears I'm feeling today? If the button is pushed, There's no running away, There'll be no one to save With the world in a grave, Take a look around you, boy, It's bound to scare you, boy,

And you tell me over and over and over again my friend, Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Yeah, my blood's so mad, Feels like coagulatin', I'm sittin' here, Just contemplatin', I can't twist the truth, It knows no regulation, Handful of senators don't pass legislation, And marches alone can't bring integration, When human respect is disintegratin', This whole crazy world is just too frustratin',

And you tell me over and over and over again my friend, Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Think of all the hate There is in Red China! Then take a look around To Selma, Alabama! Ah, you may leave here, For four days in space, But when your return it's the same old place, The poundin' of the drums, The pride and disgrace, You can bury your dead, But don't leave a trace, Hate your next-door-neighbor, But don't forget to say grace,

The "clear channel" banned music thing,,is an absolutely obscene outrage!..clear channels parent company?....Disney/ABC..................I see this absurd ban on certain music,a harbinger of things to come,,,,maybe even sort of a test to get the sheeple softened up to such absurdities...It was presented as if it was some sort of voluntary censorship,out of respect for victims....WHAT A PILE OF CRAP!!!....but it's a good example of monopolization of the "publicly owned" airwaves.

The government should serve its people, not vice versa. The monster is our government moreso than terrorists. I am serious. I fear being watched and listened to and tracked more than I fear a car bomb.

We need to get this straight. Bush and congress are not GOD. We have rights in this world and we need to rid ourselves of some laws and not create more.

http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/10/thread10954.shtml Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-U.S. terrorists and destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush administration will embrace you. All that matters is that you line up as an ally in the drug war, the only international cause that this nation still takes seriously.

That’s the message sent with the recent gift of $43 million to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, the most virulent anti-American violators of human rights in the world today.

Is it too much to ask of The New York Times that accurate and complete information be reported? Is there a concern that the truth will confuse Americans? What??

-------- cheer up, dddd. i think that cop shook you up - he would certainly have scared me. it's gonna be interesting to watch george row his aircraft carrier across afghanistan, and we'll need your observations. if you need a break from all this, as i often do, then here's another boat to relax in, friend, and some absinthe! http://www.math.utah.edu/~c-rgjr/poem.html

also,

Too tough to explain? Might be a little embarrassing to the G? You don't see this information in the news, not even the NY Times. But you footed the bill, you shelled it out. How was that money spent? Don't care?

"Make Love, Not War":

The so-called "drug war" was never a war, and neither is Operation Enduring Freedom.

Wimpy wannabes who never fought in a war like to call their military actions "wars"... it's their way of being able to live with themselves after cowardly avoiding the real wars fought during their youth.

By virtue of its name, "Operation Enduring Freedom", is not a war. Never in the history of human warfare has any nation called their war an "operation". Technically, 'Enduring Freedom', like the "Gulf War", is a Campaign, not a war. And just like "The Drug War", we shouldn't expect much out of wannabes. So far, all we've seen is a lot of blowhard talk... "selling woof tickets" as we called it on the block. The real hope is that all this talk about "building a coalition" will frighten enough of Bin Laden's followers to defect, and thereby leave him armyless long before our Green Berets and Marines land to gain some out-of-country desert training. Have fun, fellas.

The true test of this new "war" will be to see how the Navy handles assignments for women on board ships. During the "Gulf War" twenty-five percent of the women on board ships got pregnant... much to the disappointment of their soon-to-become ex-boyfriends and ex-husbands back home. Even America's last true war in Vietnam, there were as many orgasms enjoyed by American troops as there were Americans coming home in body bags. Indeed, American soldiers in Vietnam produced more babies than in all the wars we fought overseas put together. The dollar/piaster exchange rate may have been 20-to-1, but the birth-to-death rate was 1.4-to-1... and estimated 70,000 Amer-Asians babies were made over our 10-year "war" in Vietnam.

Bin Laden didn't like American troops stationed in his homeland of Saudi Arabia because he feared what our "overpaid, oversexed and over there" GI's would do to his virtuous, circumcised women of Islam. Perhaps if Bin Laden had been smart he would have left well enough alone. Not only will more US troops be parading through Saudi Arabia on their way to Afghanistan, our horny lot of "campaigners" will soon have their pick of Afghan women longing to taste some sincere, manly appreciation after the 10 years of abuse they've been getting from the Taliban control freaks.

But lets not leave out our hometown "warriors", now volunteering in droves for the new Air Marshall program. Our boys in green will have nothing on our boys in badge. Between staring down all Middle Eastern passengers, we also get to join the mile-high club... America has never had a shortage of horny stewardesses and we should not shrink from enjoying that abundance. So when your wife asks why you have to keep flying all over the place, just tell her that you're "doing it" for our country. War can be fun. So, remember... make love, not war.

It is spoken about in the news,as if it is a done deal.....The reports have a strangely identical flavor,,,it's the bad taste of a common thread ,,,,. A dinner that was prepared for all the guests,,the only dinner in town.A dinner that has been somehow specially prepared by one "Head Chef ".... ...And,,,when you see the approved reports of everyday sheeple bleating out with an opposing view,they are nothing more than mere "puppets of dissent"....and they give the appearance of balanced reporting in the public interest.....The public airways,are under the strictest of federal control,,,the FCC,(headed by Powells son,?,),would be more appropriately named as;"Office of Information Management,,,, We are coming very close to being governed by a disguised regime,,,,a regime that has the last word in what is portrayed on major network media.