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United Vegetative States of America

 

United Vegetative States of America

By Anwaar Hussain

Apr 6, 2005, 18:50

 

 

 

Where is the free American media and their kind hearted patrons when

their G.I. Joes are pumping up Iraq with depleted uranium, napalm

bombs, cluster munitions and poisonous gases even as these lines are

being written? Is death less camera-friendly in Iraq or is it less

worthy of the Americans' attention? Are Iraqis children of a lesser

god? Go talk of Schiavo's right to live or die.

 

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After having lived for 15 years in a persistent vegetative state,

Terri Schindler Schiavo crossed over from here to the hereafter on the

last day of March.

 

 

 

With her blood scent up in the air, the feral American media went

berserk in the last two weeks of Schiavo's life. Using this so called

freest press in the world, the American public was lead on a leash by

the right-wing activists with a not so subtle help from the neofundos

ruling the roost in their great country. The pro-life campaigners

remained at the point of this bizarre national entertainment.

 

 

 

Americans never fail to astound the world with their penchant for

sensationalism. Just when it appears that they've scaled new peaks,

they manage to notch themselves up yet higher into the dizzying

summits of luridness. While the carnival of mayhem is progressing

ahead in full tide in Iraq, the Americans love and sympathy for the

plight of Terri Schiavo is the very embodiment of duplicity. Hypocrisy

in its truest form, it speaks volumes of their OJ Simpson syndrome.

 

 

 

Every facet of Schiavo's affliction was dissected with microscopic

focus by the voracious lens of the American media. The American public

gobbled it all up like starved men on a king's feast.

 

 

 

Consider the following.

 

 

 

The dizzying media blitz surpassed even the Asian tsunami three months

ago that left approximately 300,000 people dead or missing. According

to TVEyes-the digital monitoring service-in this period the cable

outlets and networks have mentioned " Schiavo " more than 15,000 times.

On the other hand, these same outlets mentioned " tsunami " only 9,000

times during the two weeks following the Asian humanitarian crisis.

Internet chat rooms, letters to editors, opinion columns, television

talk shows and all national debate forums buzzed with arguments on

Schiavo's right to live or die.

 

 

 

The American President played a lead role in this theater of the

absurd. On her death he said, " I urge all those who honor Terri

Schiavo to continue to work to build a culture of life… The essence of

civilization is that the strong have a duty to protect the weak. In

cases where there are serious doubts and questions, the presumption

should be in the favor of life. "

 

 

 

Some hypocrisy, some gall, some double bloody standards. As the

Americans applaud their president who makes murder acceptable and lies

seem true, they neither challenge the serious doubts and questions in

Iraq's case nor force their government for a presumption in the favor

of Iraqi's lives. While their president urges the Americans to build

a culture of life, he sanctions his strong forces to make it their

duty to prey on innocent lives in Iraq with nauseating impunity. No

such debate is taking place on the main stream American media on the

false dichotomies of their government's conduct.

 

 

 

Forever reined by their corporate controlled media, the American

nation lapped at the pool of misery of a suffering human being. For

two tumultuous weeks, the American public really excelled-in the

festive ambiance of human misfortune duly projected by their so called

world's freest media.

 

 

 

It would not have been so out of place had the Americans shown the

same tenderness for the misery of other human beings, especially for

the ones upon whom they have inflicted it themselves. The

long-forgotten Iraq war got just about 2,900 TV mentions over the same

two weeks that Schiavo obsession ran wild.

 

 

 

When they were shedding tears on Schiavo like events, not very long

back an Iraqi girl Fatima was being repeatedly raped by the beasts

that guarded Abu Ghareeb prison. Here is an excerpt from her heart

rending letter to Iraqi resistance fighters;

 

 

 

" …I say to you: our wombs have been filled with the children of

fornication by those sons of apes and pigs who raped us. Or I could

tell you that they have defaced our bodies, spit in our faces, and

tore up the little copies of the Qur'an that hung around our necks?

….By God, we have not passed one night since we have been in prison

without one of the apes and pigs jumping down upon us to rip our

bodies apart with his overweening lust. Kill us along with them!

Destroy us along with them! Don't leave us here to let them get

pleasure from raping us….Leave their tanks and aircraft outside. Come

at us here in the prison of Abu Ghurayb.

 

They raped me on one day more than nine times. Can you comprehend?

Imagine one of your sisters being raped. Why can't you all imagine it,

as I am your sister. With me are 13 girls, all unmarried. All have

been raped before the eyes and ears of everyone. They took our clothes

and won't let us get dressed. As I write this letter one of the girls

has committed suicide. She was savagely raped. A soldier hit her on

her chest and thigh after raping her. He subjected her to unbelievable

torture. She beat her head against the wall of the cell until she

died, for she couldn't take any more.

 

Brothers, I tell you again, fear God! Kill us with them so that we

might be at peace. Help! Help! Help! "

 

One hundred resistance fighters launched a fierce attack on the prison

lead by Fatima's elder brother. People died, Fatima among them. Go

talk of Schiavo's right to live or die.

 

 

 

While the Americans and their media kept a macabre death-watch over

Schiavo's plight, Dr. Hafidh al-Dulaimi, the head of " the Commission

for the Compensation of Fallujah citizens " has reported the

destruction that American troops have inflicted on Fallujah. Here is a

brief gist;

 

 

 

" 7000 totally destroyed, or nearly totally destroyed, homes in all

districts of Fallujah. - 8400 stores, workshops, clinics, warehouses,

etc. destroyed. - 65 mosques and religious sanctuaries demolished - 59

kindergartens, primary schools, secondary schools and technical

colleges destroyed. - 13 government buildings leveled. - Four

libraries, that housed thousands of ancient Islamic manuscripts and

books, gutted completely. – on and on and on…. " Human beings lived in

those buildings; make your own guess of their toll. Go talk of

Schiavo's right to live or die.

 

 

 

It seems that having wallowed in the deceptions, lies, crimes and war

mongering of their rulers for centuries, and now immersed neck deep in

a smothering swamp of consumerism, the Americans have lost their sense

of impartiality, justice and fairness. It also seems that there are

too many Americans with blood lust out there who look at pictures of

butchered Iraqi kids and rejoice.

 

 

 

The coverage of Schiavo like events allows the Americans to whet their

appetite for tragedy, hone the fine art of hypocrisy and feed their

morbid addiction of calamity. It may be a blatant affront to the sense

and sensibilities of the enlightened world citizenry, they don't care.

 

 

 

Haven't the lies of their rulers now been fully exposed? Why is it

that the common Americans do not see the Iraqi butchery for what it

is--a brazen plan for occupation, suppression and theft of vital

resources of an already aggrieved and impoverished nation, whatever

the human cost. Or is it that they see it and agree with the plan of

maintaining white man's license for as long as possible? Why else

would they reelect this gang of criminals and thus be responsible for

the carnage by default. Or has the American nation too lapsed into a

persistent vegetative state and thus did not notice the gang sneaking

into the white House? Should their country now be named as the United

Vegetative States of America?

 

 

 

Why can't they see the horrendous atrocities that the United States

military is visiting upon unarmed Iraqis who never posed any danger to

their beloved country? Why can't their free media catch on its eagle

eyed lens the raining cluster bombs, the showering napalms, and the

tortures in the dungeons? If the BBC can broadcast an interview with a

grieving Iraqi woman whose pregnant daughter had been machine-gunned

by U.S. troops, why is there nothing on the US media? Why the common

Americans are not out on the streets protesting the horrendous actions

of their administration and the sinister complicity of their media?

Would they show the same stoic indifference if a couple of tons of

depleted uranium are shot up the New York alleys? Go talk of Schiavo's

right to live or die.

 

 

 

Where was this concern for human misery when the death toll in Iraq

shot past the 100,000 mark? Where were the tears of human compassion

when Fallujah was razed to the ground and its citizens-men, women and

children alike-gunned down by the valiant American troops and left on

the streets for the dogs to feed on? Go talk of Schiavo's right to

live or die.

 

 

 

Where is the free American media and their kind hearted patrons when

their G.I. Joes are pumping up Iraq with depleted uranium, napalm

bombs, cluster munitions and poisonous gases even as these lines are

being written? Is death less camera-friendly in Iraq or is it less

worthy of the Americans' attention? Are Iraqis children of a lesser

god? Go talk of Schiavo's right to live or die.

 

 

 

When it comes to Iraq, the Americans' sympathy wells suddenly dry up.

While they shed tears for a woman who remained in a halfway house for

the past 15 years, the dead and the maimed of other nations are

forgotten as soon as their media leads them to yet another thrilling

topic. Or are these crocodile tears that they shed when they are ready

to devour?

 

 

 

Who was it that said, " The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to

perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. " ?

 

 

 

The American writer Lee Harris was spot on the dot in his article

" Good American Hypocrisy " when he wrote, " America's current critics

need to recognize that in pursuing its self-interest the United States

is hardly unique-what singles us out from among nations is our

obdurate hypocrisy. We have to pretend to ourselves that we are doing

the right thing-often at the cost of actually doing it. " Go talk of

Schiavo's right to live or die.

 

 

 

Long live the United Vegetative States of America.

 

 

 

Courtesy : Fountainhead

 

Copyrights : Anwaar Hussain

 

Email : eagleeye

 

 

 

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