It's Morning Again in America
Mass Arrests and Mainstream Media Headlines Work to Deny a Genocide in Progress
Took a jaunt over to NBC News online for my fair share of abuse, and I wasn’t disappointed.
Here are the top headlines there:
“Biden administration faces pressure to step up its response to antisemitic incidents on college campuses”
“College campus protests over war in Gaza show no sign of ending”
Mention was also made of police breaking up a “pro-Palestinian protest” at Northeastern University.
You’ll note the framing and what’s missing: there’s no mention of genocide in Gaza, no mention of the more than 100,000 Palestinians already killed and wounded in Israel’s violent assault on Gaza and its people.
Students across America are protesting against genocide in Gaza. They want the mass killing to stop. They want America to apply pressure to Israel to halt murderous assaults by the IDF that end in mass graves for Palestinians.
But NBC is not in the business of admitting this. Instead, NBC is most worried about alleged antisemitism on college campuses. Or they frame the protests as anti-war, as if Israel and Gaza are engaged in a declared war between equals. Or they frame the protests as pro-Palestinian, not anti-genocide.
I especially like this subtitle: “The tumult spreading through college campuses is especially tricky for the president as he works to rebuild the voting coalition from his 2020 win.” See, the main concern for Biden is getting reelected, not trying to stop mass murder.
And I liked this lede: “As antisemitic incidents mushroom on college campuses, some Jewish leaders and lawmakers from both parties are accusing President Joe Biden’s administration of taking a lax approach toward enforcement of civil rights laws, exposing Jewish students to continued harassment.”
Harassment! We can’t have that. Arrest all those protesters. By the way, many of those protesters are Jewish. Are Jewish protesters harassing themselves by protesting against genocide in Gaza? Arrest them too.
I keep wondering where all these police are coming from. Shouldn’t they be fighting crime on the mean streets of America, taking on hardened criminals and upholding both law and order? Although I do admit that now the police have ample opportunity to don their riot gear (paid for by you the American taxpayer) and put their anti-riot and anti-terrorist training into practice. Fun fact: Did you know that more than a few police officers have learned anti-riot tactics and techniques from the Israeli military and police? Who says Israel doesn’t pay us back for all the scores of billions they get from us?
These wise words of Simone Weil (1909–1943) come to mind, "Clearly, a political party busily seeking, or maintaining itself in power can discern nothing in these cries [against evil] except a noise ... It can never be capable of the tender and sensitive attention which is needed to understand its meaning.”
This disease has metastasized to our press, our institutions and culture at large.
At this stage of The Game, one very simple question immediately keeps popping up and rearing its ugly head:
Even if Stein, West, or any 3rd, 4th, or 5th Party ~ or a so-called “independent” ala RFK, Jr ~ candidate were to somehow get elected President, what would they be able to actually, really DO in the Real World with a US Senate and House of Representatives composed entirely of politicians completely owned, operated, commanded, and controlled by the MICC, the S3CP2, Big Oil, Big Pharm and Medicine, Big Ag, and ultimately, Big Banks and Finance and the Federal Reserve?
Anything at all?