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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 04:40 PM
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Guess which protesters the Corporate Media will be filming this weekend?
Those protesting the war or those holding a vigil for Terry Schiavo?

Strategic preemptive political theater staging? I think so.
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grumpy old fart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 04:41 PM
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1. Good Point.....and great Irony....
vigil for the dead, and ignoring a protest to save the living....
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 04:43 PM
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2. Good catch. It will be interresting to see how this plays out.
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cyberpj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 04:43 PM
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3. Oh My God Skidmore! I swear to you I was loggin on to post THAT
Edited on Fri Mar-18-05 04:46 PM by cyberpj
VERY SAME EXACT thread!

Title and all!

Just saw TV news scrolling info about the numbers of protestors outside her house and it exploded into my mind. (From yours?)

Spooky Spooky Spooky

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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 05:10 PM
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8. great minds...
think alike and all that rot.

Damn, they must be glad the tube was yanked, so they have something to fill their air time with besides those 'traitors' protesting the war. :hippie:
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cyberpj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 08:49 PM
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21. kick this observation for the night crowd!
:kick:
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cry baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 04:43 PM
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4.  Distraction from the millions around the world that will
be protesting the illegal "Bush's War".
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cyberpj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 04:48 PM
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5. It's just so transparent.
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asjr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 04:49 PM
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6. It will be the Schiavo Saga from morn til night. The media will
not be able to resist.
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dave29 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 04:52 PM
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7. That's because they completely suck
and have rendered themselves completely obsolete.
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gizmo1979 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 05:18 PM
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9. Must not give up!
If we put a million people on the streets they will not have a choice but to show us!If we shout loud enough they will hear us!So make a diiference get out there and scream!!
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 05:19 PM
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10. Well, if they do put five seconds of anti-war footage on
You can bet that they will ignore the thousands of plain, everyday folks to zero in on the guy with rainbow fright wig or the kid with 37 tattoos, and act as though this one person is representative of the entire contingent.
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 05:22 PM
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11. That's why they're there
And I still say a certain anarchist group is intentionally set up to bring them there.
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bluedog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 05:25 PM
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12. bingo..........
the Cause USA............out of maryland...........Evan-church group...they travel the country..after Florida.its on to Georgia.



http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/18/Tampabay/Support_of_life_draws.shtml
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 05:55 PM
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14. Whether they're there as agitprop or not
It wouldn't make a bit of difference if the media could restrain themselves (yeah, I know -- HAH!) and report on what's happening rather than on the most colorful character they can find.
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EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 05:32 PM
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13. Operation Mockingbird and wartime military 'psyops' will be in effect for
the rest of our lifetimes...
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Virginian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:40 PM
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17. Operation Mockingbird?
I have seen that referenced here before. I checked Demopedia and didn't find it. What is Operation Mockingbird?
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EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-05 07:24 PM
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25. google it. It's the CIA's media manipulation program since the '40s
Edited on Sat Mar-19-05 07:27 PM by EVDebs
Try

www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_louise_01_03_03_mockingbird.html

for openers. Also look into "CNN and PsyOps" by Alexander Cockburn of counterpunch.org for a real good read you won't get in MSM

www.counterpunch.org/cnnpsyops.html

Why the 2000 election and CNN ? Wonder what is going on now with a war on and all, huh ? Domestic operations involving militaryintelligence will probably include Col. Flagg types (remember him from M.A.S.H. ?).
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kaitykaity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 05:57 PM
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15. It's enough to make a person think she's crazy.
(That would mean me.)

In a sane world this Schaivo melodrama would be a
blip, and we would get to see the coffins coming
home and the funerals of those dead kids.

Sick, sad, scary.
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TexasLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:19 PM
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16. Big time FOX news coverage of the Schiavo protests
but you knew that already!



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KarenS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 07:14 PM
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20. I wish ALL the Anti-Choice people would wear red tape!! NT
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knight_of_the_star Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:50 PM
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18. We'll make them pay attention
They can ignore us all they want, we'll make them pay attention.
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KarenS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 07:13 PM
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19. sheesh,,,, I hadn't thought of it that way,,,,,
but you are absolutely right,,,,

Strategic preemptive political theater staging.

This is insanity.
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ngGale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 09:35 PM
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22. Yup, right as rain...n/t
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me b zola Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 10:02 PM
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23. History is calling us...hell, humanity is calling us
Civil Disobedience. It is what we must do. I am willing to go to jail, and I have alot to lose.

The time has come that we are willing to sacrifice something in order to gain for the social good. Take this message to the people emassed tomarrow. It will only be effective if the masses are willing to sacrifice for their beliefs.

Peaceful civil disobedience. We must.
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Griffy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-05 02:21 PM
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24. Actually.. the time passed... be rdy for the next...
timing is important and to get the sleepy American pulic out in the streets needs an event.. we had that with the stolen election, I joined thousands on the streets of DC, but we needed a million at least! If we had a million protesters outside the capitol the outcome may have changed.. at the very least the election issue would be front and center. People are downtown right now protesting the war! Im not sure what event will wake up the bulk of the Americans that are clueless! But when it happens.. Ill be there too!
I have been telling everyone I can that the system is broken and you wont get anymore results from the election system till we march on DC (or state capitols). I fear this message isnot reaching the people and we will fall deeper in '06 as the machines count more votes... then finally.. when we lose '08 in ANOTHER stolen election the people will FINALLY rise, but will it be too late...
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EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-05 07:33 PM
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26. Probably won't do the trick. Ten yrs of Vietnam and cutting war funding
is what finally did the trick. These guys, however, are setting up for an additional 'ten to twenty years' according to Sen McCain on CNN.

Red Ink Republicans will end the war, but they'll have to realize they've wrecked the economy first. Just how fast that sinks in is anyone's guess. I'm praying for that 'Damascus Road moment' if you know what I mean...
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