Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Matt Taibbi on the Nobel Peace Prize crock

Brilliant!
You never, ever get a true dissident from a prominent Western country winning the award, despite the obvious appropriateness such a choice would represent. Our Western society quite openly embraces war as a means of solving problems and for quite some time now has fashioned its entire social and economic structure around the preparation for war.....That’s how this thing works. We ebb toward war most of the time. But sometimes, out of necessity, or when we run out of bullets, we ebb the other way. And it’s then that we give ourselves awards for our peace-loving behavior.
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Cynthia · 804 weeks ago

I don't think we are anywhere close to running out of bullets. Nor do I think we are anywhere close to putting an end to the vile practice of shooting bullets at people half a world away whom we treat as if they are a lesser children of God, or some sort of inferior breed of human beings. And thanks to Obama and his deadly arsenal of war-mongering fascists, we aren't anywhere close to putting an end to the Patriot Act, warrantless wiretapping, black sights, torture, extreme rendition and all other vile things that are a direct assault on our civil liberties. So as near as I can tell, there's no rhyme or reason for our Commander-in-Chief to have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.

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