If I Did It…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LbO8uN20MY&feature=PlayList&p=F34FCFA0F504078E&index=0
“The path to Auschwitz was paved with indifference”-Ian Kershaw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KiF_-gJQhA&mode=related&search=
Life in America in 2006 has been full of ups and downs. I often wonder how our history will be written and studied a thousand years from now. Thankfully for the newsmakers, the lucrative advances for the writing of personal memoirs have become the ideal vehicle for which to recast one’s life in the reflective glory of the mass consumer culture. (I know, I deserve a Pulitzer…)
This past week saw the nation make a collective shrieking gasp when it was announced that OJ Simpson would be writing a “hypothetical” account of what may have happened that horrific Spring evening in Brentwood California in 1994 entitled “If I DID IT, Here’s how it happened”. Since the 10th anniversary of the verdict of the OJ Trial last fall, I have taken the time to study the facts of that trial in and out, reading court transcripts, articles, editorials, and watching news reports. Today, there is no doubt in my mind OJ is guilty of murdering his ex-wife and her friend. Even if he didn’t kill them himself, he knew those murder was going to take place and was at the seen, I am convinced. This is a far cry from the naïve 14 year old who sat in Ms. Dembeck’s Spanish class in 1995, and smiled with images of Tim Meadows as The Juice on SNL when the verdict of “Not Guilty” was read.
While the nation can now take a collective breath with the news that the announced OJ book and Fox TV interview have been called off, I wonder what will happen when other controversial/murderous figures in our nation choose to write their memoirs. Tops on the list, George W. Bush. Will there be the same outrage? Will we take a stand against indifference and revisionist rhetoric? Will we take the time to do the research about what really has happened in the past 6 years?
I read Bill Clinton’s “My Life” and found it to be decidedly un-kinky; a pile of hogwash lacking in the natural Peter Griffinesque charisma of the man.Practically no discussion of his lack of personal character. I now worry that the nation will quickly forget the horrors of the current catastrophe in Iraq. I wonder if and when Shit for Brains and his vile henchmen write their memoirs if the nation will stop in horror to protest the unmistakable hubris that has cost America politically, economically, and socially at home and around the globe. He is OJ times 2867 (at the time of this entry). I wonder how Ass Face and Mr. Armageddon will spin their own vote to give Shit for Brains the power to go to war, something that destroyed their chances for a victory in 2004. The problem is that the apathetic nature of the masses will probably leave the discussion of Bush’s legacy to the jingoistic clowns on Fox News and CNN.
We are indifferent to the revisionist perspectives of our history because time heals wounds and we move one. We have forgotten the Red Summer of 1919, the Rosewood Massacre of 1923, and the yellow journalism of 1898, and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War Two. However, we must remember the insanity of 2002 and 2003, when the nation’s media institutions, economic institutions, and most importantly, political institutions, froze in the face of supposed WMD’s, an Arab Nationalist dictator, and chose to abdicate our ability to think critically providing total power to the boy prince, Shit for Brains. We must do the grunt work, if for no other reason then to hope against hope that we can learn from our wretched recent past. We must push the new congress to investigate the current administration’s actions from 2001 to the present, consider it an espresso for the masses.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xbY4WzcF_U&mode=related&search=
Playtimes over…Its go time…
Strength and Honor Comrades….
“The path to Auschwitz was paved with indifference”-Ian Kershaw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KiF_-gJQhA&mode=related&search=
Life in America in 2006 has been full of ups and downs. I often wonder how our history will be written and studied a thousand years from now. Thankfully for the newsmakers, the lucrative advances for the writing of personal memoirs have become the ideal vehicle for which to recast one’s life in the reflective glory of the mass consumer culture. (I know, I deserve a Pulitzer…)
This past week saw the nation make a collective shrieking gasp when it was announced that OJ Simpson would be writing a “hypothetical” account of what may have happened that horrific Spring evening in Brentwood California in 1994 entitled “If I DID IT, Here’s how it happened”. Since the 10th anniversary of the verdict of the OJ Trial last fall, I have taken the time to study the facts of that trial in and out, reading court transcripts, articles, editorials, and watching news reports. Today, there is no doubt in my mind OJ is guilty of murdering his ex-wife and her friend. Even if he didn’t kill them himself, he knew those murder was going to take place and was at the seen, I am convinced. This is a far cry from the naïve 14 year old who sat in Ms. Dembeck’s Spanish class in 1995, and smiled with images of Tim Meadows as The Juice on SNL when the verdict of “Not Guilty” was read.
While the nation can now take a collective breath with the news that the announced OJ book and Fox TV interview have been called off, I wonder what will happen when other controversial/murderous figures in our nation choose to write their memoirs. Tops on the list, George W. Bush. Will there be the same outrage? Will we take a stand against indifference and revisionist rhetoric? Will we take the time to do the research about what really has happened in the past 6 years?
I read Bill Clinton’s “My Life” and found it to be decidedly un-kinky; a pile of hogwash lacking in the natural Peter Griffinesque charisma of the man.Practically no discussion of his lack of personal character. I now worry that the nation will quickly forget the horrors of the current catastrophe in Iraq. I wonder if and when Shit for Brains and his vile henchmen write their memoirs if the nation will stop in horror to protest the unmistakable hubris that has cost America politically, economically, and socially at home and around the globe. He is OJ times 2867 (at the time of this entry). I wonder how Ass Face and Mr. Armageddon will spin their own vote to give Shit for Brains the power to go to war, something that destroyed their chances for a victory in 2004. The problem is that the apathetic nature of the masses will probably leave the discussion of Bush’s legacy to the jingoistic clowns on Fox News and CNN.
We are indifferent to the revisionist perspectives of our history because time heals wounds and we move one. We have forgotten the Red Summer of 1919, the Rosewood Massacre of 1923, and the yellow journalism of 1898, and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War Two. However, we must remember the insanity of 2002 and 2003, when the nation’s media institutions, economic institutions, and most importantly, political institutions, froze in the face of supposed WMD’s, an Arab Nationalist dictator, and chose to abdicate our ability to think critically providing total power to the boy prince, Shit for Brains. We must do the grunt work, if for no other reason then to hope against hope that we can learn from our wretched recent past. We must push the new congress to investigate the current administration’s actions from 2001 to the present, consider it an espresso for the masses.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xbY4WzcF_U&mode=related&search=
Playtimes over…Its go time…
Strength and Honor Comrades….
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