-Caveat Lector- >From: "Sasa Rakezic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: The sound of fighter plane >Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 00:48:40 +0200 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Priority: 3 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Status: > >Sasa Rakezic >P.F. 163 >26000 Pancevo >Yugoslavia (Serbia) >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >May 12th 1999 > >Hello folks > >It turned out that yesterday, around 2 PM, during the NATO bombings of the >antiaitcraft defenses placed near the villages around Pancevo, the bus was >passing just about 30-40 meters from the place where the bombs fell... It >is the same bus that Gordana takes every day when she goes to work, and >today she spoke to the bus conducter who witnessed the whole event...The >conducter said that people in the bus have heard the sound of the planes, >and the next thing that they saw were the bombs exploding near the house on >the side of the road, while the military vechicles were passing there (they >are forced to constantly move their anti-aircraft weaponry), heading to the >near-by forest. Not only that the house was crushed and set to fire, but >the explosion as well launched parts of the construction all around. One >of the bricks hit and broke the window of the bus, but, by a wonder, none >of the passengers were hurt... Everybody was appalled! The bus stopped, and >haven't continued its ride before some time, as all needed to collect their >mind ... Three of the villagers were injured, including the poor older >couple >from the house that was completely demolished. I was thinking that one of >the most terrorizing aspects of this bombing campaign is that it is >actually so wide, that noone knows if the house on the end of the road is >going to be torn to pieces, or weather some peaceful neighbor is in danger >to be targeted, or what is going to happen next. And still, the whole >action is presented as "selective" and as if projected to be human and >civilized. War, any war, is built on the idea of destruction, which mostly >means just prosaic killing.To the innocent people who died or were injured >or left homeless, it hardly metters if the executors were the Milosevic's >brutal special forces, or fanatics from KLA, or NATO's sophisticated >machinery. The final result is always the same: innocent people that are >bleeding. If this is covered with the facade of "civilized behaviour" and >"progress" embodied in the shiny machines of modern technology, it makes it >only more frightening. >As for the sound of NATO aircrafts, which is everybody's >nightmare here, I received a letter by a friend from San Francisco, a >cartoonist Chris Lanier."Here in San Francisco", said Chris, "every year >they have an event called "Fleet Week." It >has something to do with the Navy, I don't know what. A lot of gunboats >shore up in the harbor, and various fighter planes put on a spectacle of >formation flying above the bay. The "Blue Angels" always fly, doing loops, >leaving vapor trails in the sky... >The week before the performance is terrible. The fighters fly their test >runs, zooming over the neighborhoods, rattling the windows, shaking the >ground, thrumming the eardrums with the roar of their engines. The news >always does something about the Blue Angels, showing footage of them arcing >through the air, the sun photogenically glinting from their steel blue >wings. >I think it never occurs to the majority of the spectators at Fleet Week >that what they are watching are not machines built to entertain them - >machines built to do loop-de-loops and make vapor-trail geometric designs - >but rather machines that were built for the sole purpose of slaughtering >people. >I don't think that most people here realize that the sound of fighter plane >engines, for most people in the world, is a sound that causes terror, that >announces the proximity of the bombs. They just hear it as the sound of >Fleet Week". >Bye >Sasa DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! 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