Comments on: The America I Love http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/09/17/the-america-i-love/ A dissident twist of reality... Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:43:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: JoeC http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/09/17/the-america-i-love/#comment-13533 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:19:22 +0000 http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/09/17/the-america-i-love/#comment-13533 The first stories that came out sited the 100,000 figure. Then, the Main Stream Media began to say "tens of thousands," and by Monday, most Corporate News outlets were reporting "a few thousand." Here's what 107,000 people look like: <img src="http://football.ballparks.com/NCAA/SEC/Tennessee/aerial.jpg"/> The police don't do crowd estimates anymore, but from the pictures taken around Washington on September 15, there looks to be close to 100,000 folks there, if not more. <img width="600" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Marching_towards_the_Capital_-_September_15%2C_2007.jpg" alt="September 15 Protest" /> The first stories that came out sited the 100,000 figure. Then, the Main Stream Media began to say “tens of thousands,” and by Monday, most Corporate News outlets were reporting “a few thousand.”

Here’s what 107,000 people look like:

The police don’t do crowd estimates anymore, but from the pictures taken around Washington on September 15, there looks to be close to 100,000 folks there, if not more.

September 15 Protest

]]> by: MR http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/09/17/the-america-i-love/#comment-13531 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:51:11 +0000 http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/09/17/the-america-i-love/#comment-13531 100,000? The permit was for 10,000 and the AP reports thousands. How many people were really there? 100,000? The permit was for 10,000 and the AP reports thousands. How many people were really there?

]]> by: JoeC http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/09/17/the-america-i-love/#comment-13475 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:45:48 +0000 http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/09/17/the-america-i-love/#comment-13475 I'm almost to the end of William Gibson's "Spook Country," and one of the characters muses about Americans and wonders if we got mass <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome" rel="nofollow">Stockholm Syndrome</a> after 9/11. An interesting possibility. I’m almost to the end of William Gibson’s “Spook Country,” and one of the characters muses about Americans and wonders if we got mass Stockholm Syndrome after 9/11. An interesting possibility.

]]> by: Indigobusiness http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/09/17/the-america-i-love/#comment-13432 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:28:23 +0000 http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/09/17/the-america-i-love/#comment-13432 I just heard John Dean, talking to Thom Hartmann, explain how America didn't question the Administration until Nixon broke the spell. After that, everything was suspect , until GW Bush got his unexplainable free pass. The good folk of America get in trouble believing too strongly in what they wish to be, rather than what is. I just heard John Dean, talking to Thom Hartmann, explain how America didn’t question the Administration until Nixon broke the spell. After that, everything was suspect , until GW Bush got his unexplainable free pass.

The good folk of America get in trouble believing too strongly in what they wish to be, rather than what is.

]]> by: JoeC http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/09/17/the-america-i-love/#comment-13369 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:55:22 +0000 http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/09/17/the-america-i-love/#comment-13369 I'm just really amazed at the lack of news coverage...I mean, the sight of those Iraq War Veterans being put on their stomachs and plasti-cuffed on the steps of the U.S. Capitol...that sort of got to me. Add to that the fact that the news has been slow lately, and for even the Corporate Media whores not to be replaying videos of the vets being cuffed left and right...there's some serious media control clamp-down going on, no? And if that's indeed the case, then you guys may be right...every system is shutting down to send one last rush of oxygen to liberty's brain before we completely succomb to the fascist New World Order. I’m just really amazed at the lack of news coverage…I mean, the sight of those Iraq War Veterans being put on their stomachs and plasti-cuffed on the steps of the U.S. Capitol…that sort of got to me. Add to that the fact that the news has been slow lately, and for even the Corporate Media whores not to be replaying videos of the vets being cuffed left and right…there’s some serious media control clamp-down going on, no?

And if that’s indeed the case, then you guys may be right…every system is shutting down to send one last rush of oxygen to liberty’s brain before we completely succomb to the fascist New World Order.

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