propaganda
08/17/2007
The Clergy Are Coming! The Clergy Are Coming!
In this "news" report from Shreveport station KSLA, we learn that if the US were attacked, martial law might be enforced. And if it were, it could look a little like the 1998 film "The Siege." Oh, Auntie Em! I may become frightened!
But wait -- KSLA has more for you to worry about than just a hypothetical military enforcement which follows a hypothetical attack and hypothetically resembles a largely forgotten Denzel Washington/Bruce Willis vehicle that was a critical and financial washout. Because, my friend, the clergy are coming.
It happened after Hurricane Katrina, and it could happen again -- groups of clergypersons, moving among us during a crisis, and telling us to stay calm. Well, to be fair, they'd also be telling us to shut up and do whatever the cops and soldiers were asking. And you know how and why they can do it? 'Cause they've got Romans. Romans 13, that is, the part of the New Testament that tells you to submit to the Man. Egads! No! Anything but Romans!
Yes, there are a couple of facts buried in the hyperbole -- gun confiscation after Katrina, revocation of the Posse Comitatus Act. What they have to do with the white-collared menace of the encroaching padre army, though, I couldn't tell you.
Next week: The shocking story of what could happen if all the Jews, Hindus, Muslims and Buddhists who are immune to the Vulcan Nerve Pinch of the New Testamant rise up and overthrow us all, in a manner to be illustrated with scenes from some movie other than "The Siege."
06/15/2007
"Lee's Life for Lies"
Most of the Iraq War's propaganda videos we've seen -- whether they're for the war or against it -- tend to be put together without too much thought behind them. "Lee's life for Lies" is a curious exception.
The desricription of this clip by YouTube uploader "tamerghonym" claims that it's "A Message from a US
soldier in Iraq Lee K. Tucker to his family. The message was found in a
flash memory after his Humvee had been attacked by the Islamic Army in
Iraq." The footage of Tucker, along with a recorded letter he wrote to his parents, implies that Lee was against the war. It also implies that he died when his Humvee was blown up.
The problem is that Lee is alive and well. And he almost certainly never wrote or recorded the letter. The footage of him and his fellow soldiers was either stolen or found, and then manipulated to make it seem genuine. (The other four parts can be viewed on tamerghonym's YouTube channel while it's still up.)
