Comments on: Here’s how the story could have been reported, Part II http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/11/13/heres-how-the-story-could-have-been-reported-part-ii/ She escaped from the belly of the liberal beast Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:08:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/11/13/heres-how-the-story-could-have-been-reported-part-ii/#comment-16851 ymarsakar Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:48:41 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2112#comment-16851 Essentially, the propaganda apparatus creates a "source" that is in itself nothing but a filter that separates out the useful propaganda from the bad propaganda. By calling such a mechanism a "source", news agencies acquire proxy credit but they are nothing but arms of the same organ. Essentially, the propaganda apparatus creates a “source” that is in itself nothing but a filter that separates out the useful propaganda from the bad propaganda. By calling such a mechanism a “source”, news agencies acquire proxy credit but they are nothing but arms of the same organ.

]]> By: ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/11/13/heres-how-the-story-could-have-been-reported-part-ii/#comment-16850 ymarsakar Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:47:36 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2112#comment-16850 <B>But, if there’s only one hospital or only one doctor who announces that one of the dead was a 12 year old boy, what’s wrong with using the sole source?</b> The Associated Press and Al Reuters are the sole source for the majority of printed news agencies and various prints of cable news in the West. But, if there’s only one hospital or only one doctor who announces that one of the dead was a 12 year old boy, what’s wrong with using the sole source?

The Associated Press and Al Reuters are the sole source for the majority of printed news agencies and various prints of cable news in the West.

]]> By: ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/11/13/heres-how-the-story-could-have-been-reported-part-ii/#comment-16849 ymarsakar Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:45:57 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2112#comment-16849 The Left sees strength only through social cooperation. They forget that the strength of a chain relies upon its weakest member. By refusing to promote the increase in personal strength, through competition and adversity, the Left creates a society of weaklings. Only useful for making it easier on the conquerors to find slave populations and to exterminate the undesirables, since they are all in one place. I will ask an honest question in the end. Would human beings serve well in a society that will not protect its weakest member? Protect, not exploit now. The world community has no desire to protect Israel or the Palestinians. How can any human being function well in an organization that doesn't a damn for its members? The Left sees strength only through social cooperation. They forget that the strength of a chain relies upon its weakest member. By refusing to promote the increase in personal strength, through competition and adversity, the Left creates a society of weaklings. Only useful for making it easier on the conquerors to find slave populations and to exterminate the undesirables, since they are all in one place.

I will ask an honest question in the end. Would human beings serve well in a society that will not protect its weakest member? Protect, not exploit now. The world community has no desire to protect Israel or the Palestinians. How can any human being function well in an organization that doesn’t a damn for its members?

]]> By: ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/11/13/heres-how-the-story-could-have-been-reported-part-ii/#comment-16847 ymarsakar Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:44:39 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2112#comment-16847 <B>Why are Israeli borders the only ones ever challenged?</b> Because Israel won't kill off the challengers, which is the usual permanent solution. No challengers, no need to give back property. People know that Israel is like this, which simply means Israel deserves to be weakened and attacked in the eyes of the world's "greatest moral philosophers". Why are Israeli borders the only ones ever challenged?

Because Israel won’t kill off the challengers, which is the usual permanent solution.

No challengers, no need to give back property.

People know that Israel is like this, which simply means Israel deserves to be weakened and attacked in the eyes of the world’s “greatest moral philosophers”.

]]> By: ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/11/13/heres-how-the-story-could-have-been-reported-part-ii/#comment-16848 ymarsakar Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:40:55 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2112#comment-16848 Weakness, in the end, makes you vulnerable to many things. People will take your lands, your women, and anything else you value. Because you and your society are weak, you can do nothing except die and suffer. This is the law of nature, something no uppity socialist or environmentalist can change even if they knew how. Classical liberals instead of trying to change this law, simply obey it as best as we can. If the laws of the world dictate that strength is the only defense against injustice, then so be it. We will stronger than all our enemies combined. Weakness, in the end, makes you vulnerable to many things. People will take your lands, your women, and anything else you value. Because you and your society are weak, you can do nothing except die and suffer.

This is the law of nature, something no uppity socialist or environmentalist can change even if they knew how.

Classical liberals instead of trying to change this law, simply obey it as best as we can. If the laws of the world dictate that strength is the only defense against injustice, then so be it. We will stronger than all our enemies combined.

]]> By: Lulu http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/11/13/heres-how-the-story-could-have-been-reported-part-ii/#comment-16846 Lulu Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:24:32 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2112#comment-16846 Hello Ophi, Do you get similarly incensed about the Chinese occupation of Tibet and its brutal suppression of Tibetan religion and culture? Do you protest Australia and New Zealand for occupying land belonging, respectively, to the Aborigines and the Maoris? Without restitution. Do you live in North America? One or two hundred years ago, did the land your home sits on belong to an American Indian tribe? Do you think the territory you live on was legally annexed? Think someone who marched on the Trail of Tears or who lived there previously might disagree? Ready to give iyour land back? Think anyone was displaced in the creation of Pakistan? Why are Israeli borders the only ones ever challenged? Hello Ophi,
Do you get similarly incensed about the Chinese occupation of Tibet and its brutal suppression of Tibetan religion and culture?

Do you protest Australia and New Zealand for occupying land belonging, respectively, to the Aborigines and the Maoris? Without restitution.

Do you live in North America? One or two hundred years ago, did the land your home sits on belong to an American Indian tribe? Do you think the territory you live on was legally annexed? Think someone who marched on the Trail of Tears or who lived there previously might disagree? Ready to give iyour land back?

Think anyone was displaced in the creation of Pakistan?

Why are Israeli borders the only ones ever challenged?

]]> By: Ophiuchus http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/11/13/heres-how-the-story-could-have-been-reported-part-ii/#comment-16862 Ophiuchus Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:42:04 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2112#comment-16862 InkMiser, that seems a likely explanation for the similarity of the stories. But, if there's only one hospital or only one doctor who announces that one of the dead was a 12 year old boy, what's wrong with using the sole source? InkMiser, that seems a likely explanation for the similarity of the stories. But, if there’s only one hospital or only one doctor who announces that one of the dead was a 12 year old boy, what’s wrong with using the sole source?

]]> By: InkMiser http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/11/13/heres-how-the-story-could-have-been-reported-part-ii/#comment-16861 InkMiser Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:38:34 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2112#comment-16861 Ophi - I'm not suggesting a conspiracy theory, only pointing out that if these papers are getting their stories from the same source, you would see the same story multiple times. I am questioning whether we are not seeing the same story (which is wrong, or incomplete, biased or none of the above - take your choice) again and again and again. The serial publication of the same story from a single source does not lend it credibility. Ophi - I’m not suggesting a conspiracy theory, only pointing out that if these papers are getting their stories from the same source, you would see the same story multiple times. I am questioning whether we are not seeing the same story (which is wrong, or incomplete, biased or none of the above - take your choice) again and again and again. The serial publication of the same story from a single source does not lend it credibility.

]]> By: Ophiuchus http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/11/13/heres-how-the-story-could-have-been-reported-part-ii/#comment-16860 Ophiuchus Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:15:30 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2112#comment-16860 boqueronman, since when is it a "Western idea of morality" that it is proper to kill innocents in retaliation for similar outrages? boqueronman, since when is it a “Western idea of morality” that it is proper to kill innocents in retaliation for similar outrages?

]]> By: boqueronman http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/11/13/heres-how-the-story-could-have-been-reported-part-ii/#comment-16859 boqueronman Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:59:34 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2112#comment-16859 Gotta love the last sentence above, "Do you think that pre-emptive strikes that kill innocent bystanders should be above criticism?" Apparently if they have been conducted for nearly 60 years without cessation against Israelis by the so-called Palestinians and their Arab allies, well, yes, it is "above criticism." Because, after all, they are uncivilized, poor and oppressed brown people. It's awfully arrogant to expect Western ideas of morality to be relevant to them. Gotta love the last sentence above, “Do you think that pre-emptive strikes that kill innocent bystanders should be above criticism?” Apparently if they have been conducted for nearly 60 years without cessation against Israelis by the so-called Palestinians and their Arab allies, well, yes, it is “above criticism.” Because, after all, they are uncivilized, poor and oppressed brown people. It’s awfully arrogant to expect Western ideas of morality to be relevant to them.

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