🚀 go-pugleaf

Had a good watch of Bowling for Columbine the other day.  I thought I would
transcribe some of the stats for a bit of a laugh at the expense of the U.S.
This is an intersting docufilm about gun control (or lack thereof) in the
US.  I recommend watching it.

"
1953:     US overthrows Prime Minister Mossadeq of Iran
            US installs Shah as dictator

1954:    US overthrows democratically-elected President Arbenz of Guatemala.
            200,000 civilians killed

1963: US backs assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem.

1963-1975:    American Military kills 4 million people in Southeast Asia

Sept 11, 1973:    US stages coup in Chile
        Democratically elected President Salvador Allende Assassinated
        Dictator Augusto Pinochet installed
        5,000 Chileans murdered

1977:    US backs military rulers of El Salvador
            70,000 Salvadorans and four Amercian nuns killed

1980's:    US trains Osama bin Laden and fellow terrorists to kill Soviets
                CIA gives them $3 billion

1981:    Reagan administration trains and funds "contras."

1982:    US provides billions in aid to Saddam Hussein for weapons to kill
Iranians

1983:    White House secretly gives Iran weapons to kill Iraqis

1989:    CIA agent Manuel Noriega (also serving as President of Panama)
disobeys orders from Washington.
            US invades Panama and removes Noriega
            3,000 Panamanian civilian casualties

1990:    Iraq invades Kuwait with weapons from US

1991:    US enters Iraq
            Bush reinstates dictator of Kuwait

1991 - present:    American planes bomb Iraq on a weekly basis.
            UN estimates 500,000 Iraqi children die from bombing and
sanctions

1998:    Clinton bomb "weapon factory" in Sudan
            Factory turns out to be making aspirin

2000-01:    US gives Taliban-ruled Afghanistan $245 million in 'aid'

Sept 11, 2001:    Osama bin Laden uses his expert CIA training to murder
3,000 people
"


The US appear to have a long history of not taking oppononets seriously.
The film gives the impression that the US have not only brought the current
terrorist situation on themselves, but also goes as far as to blam the US
for many of the problems in the rest of the world.  They make a compelling
case.  They also refer to US propaganda tactics to worse than ever before.
The brainwashed American public appear to have blind faith in their
government/media.  Strange when you consider who put their blinders on in
the first place.

So has the constant propaganda and hate mongering by the US administration
affected the American people in any other way other than just turning them
into robots?  Apparantly not.  Brainwashing people to hate, no matter how
specific that hate is targeted, tends to backfire.  This is illustrated with
stats of deaths caused by shootings in various countries;

"
Australia:        65 per year
Canada:        160 per year
France:        255 per year
UK:            68 per year
Germany:    381 per year
Japan:        39 per year
US:            11,127 per year
"

If we take population into account, we can estimate your chances of being
shot to death this year;
Australia:        1/300,000
Canada:        1/200,000
France:        1/240,000
UK:            1/900,000
Germany:    1/200,000
Japan:        1/3,000,000
US:            1/25,000

So living in the US makes you ten times more likely to be shot dead..
niiiiice.



Lets take this point a little further.
Do you recall when a lot of impressionable kids were going to school and
shooting everyone?  There is often 3 or 4 of these incidents in short
succession.  This also corresponds with increased hate mongering propaganda
based on whoever the US intends to attack next (does this bear any
resembelence to Nazi Germany?).  So...  What are the chances of a few
schoolyard shootings over the next few months as these poor young kids are
innundated with government hate mongering propaganda?

This post doesnt really have a point (sorry), it is really just a rant.  I
am just amazed at how accurate George Orwell's view of the future is so far.

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