Proxima Centauri

I was criticizing. This point of view can begin to be a threat to free speach.

Koyaanisqatsi

Ironic, since it's arguably at those crisis times that one's distrust of the government should be the most patriotic act a citizen could muster, especially in light of all of the overwhelming evidence proving conclusively that one's government has lied and/or fabricated reasons and motives to instigate said war.

Only governments go to war, not people, so it is the best test of patriotism to seriously and without jingoistic fervor challenge the reasons and motivations of going to war on a constant and relentless basis.

The other day I was watching (IPU help me) the Dr. Phil show, because he had on two war protesters (two easily marginallized female protesters at that, who came across as quasi-lesbian granola eaters; i.e., stereotypical feminist/communists) and his whole purpose was to attempt to make them out to be tools of the Iraqi's; as if the Iraqi's relied exclusively on the fact that American citizens did not support the war to bolster their own troops' morale (even though he repeatedly capitulated on this fact by saying, "Now, I don't know if the Iraqi's are doing this, but, what if they are?")

As if the fact that B-52's and B-2 bombers weren't the primary motivations for Iraqi soldiers to fight. He likened it almost to aiding and abetting the enemy instead of what it was (protesting our own government's unjust actions).

It was truly sickening to watch, especially since he had on the show the parents of MIA and POW soldiers as well as those who had already lost their sons and daughters to the war, as if it were the sole fault of the protesters that had caused their losses.