ACLU Advertisement
I started reading the news again. It has been awhile. Perhaps I have been a little depressed about the state of the world. Perhaps I have been avoiding that pressure. Perhaps I have been preoccupied.
After the last election, with the atrocities that happened in polling places, and the Republic Party’s resurrection of “Jim Crow” laws to challenge voter eligibility INSIDE the polling place in Ohio, and the garbage bags of “lost” votes in Florida, and election officials publicly promising to “deliver elections,” my reaction was that it was time for writers and thinkers to DIG IN and start doing their part. My pre-election threats to my family that I would whisk myself to a old-world European country to escape in the event that the scoundrels in-charge stole another election vanished entirely. I knew that I had to stay in America, and change the minds of people with words and ideas.
While perusing the 300+ articles that matched my general criteria, I found myself reading an article at SFGate.com about nearly a THOUSAND pilgrims who died while trying to cross a single bridge in Iraq. It was such a devastating amount of people that even though there is a war going on around them, the community is still reeling from the loss.
At the top of the page, just as I started to process the details of the article, I noticed a banner advertisement, and there appeared to be a man’s naked chest (the head and torso were blocked . . . . The copy for the advertisement read, “Under the Patriot Act, your information is no longer private. Strip away the sound bites and learn the truth. www.aclu.tv.” Are we really in a state of being where organizations have to ADVERTISE the truth in order to get Americans to participate?
Maybe, I could write some of the advertisements we might read in the not-so-distant future:
- Taxes have been temporarily suspended. Instead, please make your checks out directly to: The President and his Friends.
- Big Brother is here. He has opened up special camps, and all FREE THINKERS are invited.
- The HIDDEN oil crisis: How are the executives of the oil companies going to spend their record profits?
02 Sep 2005 EWriter
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I grew up in the sixties and seventies, and like most of my generation, was hypnotized on the tele-dramas of that time.
Lately, for some reason, I have been having recollections of an episode that was either from Bonanza or Big Valley. There was a traveling Preacher/medicine salesman whose wagon pulled into town on beautiful autumn afternoon. A great deal of the towns’ people was greatly affected by his charm and stern belief in the Lord. There were a few skeptics in town, but they were quickly denounced as dwellers on the negative, or even worse, heathens. It wasn’t until the preacher/salesman pulled out of town that everyone realized that they had lost most of their possessions to a cheap conman.
Of course, the only folks affected by this dishonest tragedy were those who were fool enough to fall for his game. The other towns’ people just shook their heads and said, “At least that won’t happen again.”
I don’t know why, I’ve just been fond remembrances about that episode lately.