----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 11:44
AM
Subject: Re: The death of Daniel
Pearl
Sorry folks
But I'm looking at this from another
angle. Professional musicians and actors who since September 11th
have been eating breakfast at AA meetings since they offer free coffee and
donuts. The type of thing that killed Charlie Parker and has
driven so many of these free lance Individuals into drug deals. I
work with them, both as people having to pay to keep up their skills and also
counseling them to fight the legions of money around if they are willing
to be that other type high pay and very dangerous type of
Entrepreneur.
The roads are lined with immigrants competing for
the type of low pay work that musicians and actors take when there is no
professional work. So they don't even get that.
If you think I'm "off the wall," then see what happens when a poor, but
exceptional, musician and a member of the upper class falls in love and enjoys
each other's company. Unless he becomes a cut-throat
capitalist he doesn't have a chance.
I'm getting very impatient with the discussion
here because of the reality that I know and experience daily.
It seems that no one is interested in hearing what is going on
out here and how dire it is.
I heard Keith's complaint about the medical
service. And I have some of the same about mine but thus far I
haven't had to pay for their idiocy. That is reality and how to
solve it is a worthy discussion. Frankly, with his age
and long history of service he should be treated with more respect, but given
the cutthroat attitude of these societies I suspect they are thinking about
"one less mouth to feed or service to give." I've noted that
Doctors are no better than Artists at accepting a degraded financial
position. Both can become bitter and hostile given the
requirements for professionalism in their work. Just like any
degraded minority, even "civil servants" can become very
surly. The one exception being the military where
they expect you to be expendible and to either leave or be killed and replaced
by the young.
The same is true here when the world looks to
America to solve their problems. American government has become
surly. They do have point when we have to go halfway around the
world while the local neighbors do nothing but play to the "Great Satan"
machine to stimulate local energy and deflect local
constituencies. Those AA breakfasts are filled these
day. Americans can get very short about taking care of everyone
elses children. Even allies suffer in times like
that. If you don't believe me read
Rumsfield's excuses for botched missions in Afganistan. But what
is worse, the mistake make have been stimulated by two competitive
allies. America is lousy at solving certain types of problems and
yet has taken in citizens from Moslem countries until they
outnumber Native Americans seventeen to one while we are still the most
abused population in the country both in crime and in public derision even
though our sovereinty has more international and historical standing
than New Jersey. New Yorkers complain
about American Indian business practices, no taxes, while they let
New Jersey do the same thing. Meanwhile our children are
constantly bombarded with lying negative images, in the media, of who we
are. It goes on and on.
The problem with War is that it is addictive and
we are all once more wrapped in the simplicities of life and
death. The Fundamentalist Religions are happier with a "Great
Devil" to fight but so are the Fundamentalist Economists.
The cold war was a piece of duplicitous waste. It came from a war
between two Western economic philosophies that have both destroyed indigeneous
peoples.
Today we have Bush lecturing the Chinese
about religious freedom while South Carolinians still venerate that time when
they got to shoot a few peaceful marching Doctors who were
Communist. Today it doesn't seem odd to say "Is a Bear
Catholic or does the Pope dump in the woods?" ("Is the Pope
Catholic and does a Bear dump in the woods?") It is enough!
As John Fire Lame Deer noted years ago, Artists are the "Indians" of the White
World. Until modern economics can come up with something
better than a winner and loser scenario IT is the Axis of Evil that has
destroyed the only thing that I see as its justification for a place amongst
the great cultures of the world. It may be the lesser
of the Evils in a very fanatical and miserable world that is getting more so
but that is a miserable excuse for a society and a philosophy.
I feel sorrow for Danny Pearl's widow and unborn
child because he was doing a job that is important but his employer is in my
opinion the modern equivalent of the provincial garbage of Julius
Streicher. It doesn't matter whether it is racist or
monetarist if the results are the same. The Nazis and their
Western Racist ancestors chose people by Race, today we have the same
separations by class and profession.
I'm in the trenches here and I don't have a gun
meanwhile with my daughter going to college, which is the Gateway out of
poverty in the US, today's NYTimes notes that Endowments are down and tuitions
are making up the difference. Inflow and Outgo, Supply and Demand,
and the following nonsense from the Speaker of Today's
House. This world is nuts! My daughter is
a beautiful young woman and is at the top of her Drama class in starring roles
in the school where they made the movie "Fame" several years
ago. A school that is already more advanced than most
University drama departments. At this point, however, I wish I had
never encouraged her. It can only bring her
misery. However the other thing that she wants to do is be a
Journalist.
REH
February 22, 2002
Economic Stimulus: A
Republican View
o the Editor:
Re "Workers Held Hostage" (column, Feb.
19):
Paul Krugman trots out familiar class-war
arguments about the bipartisan legislation that passed the House last
week. This is hardly a giveaway to the rich, as he would have us
believe.
This legislation included refund checks for those
low-income families that did not qualify for a refund last year; a tax-rate
cut aimed at middle-class families in the 27 percent bracket; and extended
health care and unemployment benefits for those who cannot find a
job.
This stimulus package has been held hostage by
the Senate's partisan politics. Tom Daschle, the majority leader, seems
content to move on to other legislative items. But there is no higher priority
for Congress than to get people back to work.
J. DENNIS HASTERT
Speaker
of the House
Washington, Feb. 20, 2002
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 9:15
AM
Subject: RE: The death of Daniel
Pearl
>
> KH
> Even now, is
it too much to
> hope that the US State Department could start to think
about peaceful
> incursions into those countries by making offers, such
as funding for
> schools and medical centres, that even the most
reactionary politicians
> could not refuse?
>
>
>
AC
>
> What's "in it" for the reactionary politicians? They
most fear losing
> control. Any change might be a change for the
worst. So they are
> presumably satisfied with the way things are
going.
>
> arthur
>
> -----Original
Message-----
> From: Keith Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 3:13 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Subject: The death of Daniel Pearl
>
>
> The death of the
Wall Street Journalist, Daniel Pearl, in its own
> premeditated way and
with the video tape of the murder itself, is, to me,
> just as brutal
and shocking as 11 September.
>
> This will reinforce American
anger and we can expect all sorts of further
> repercussions,
particularly when we reflect on the fact that Osama bin
> Laden and the
leading members of Al Queda have escaped from Afghanistan and
> are
probably plotting further outrages from wherever they are.
>
>
But there's a much more difficult problem than finding these
extremists.
> All round the world there are now millions of desperate
young men,
> particularly in the Islamic countries, who have nothing to
do and no chance
> of entering interesting and gainful employment. Among
these there are bound
> to be significant numbers of disturbed
individuals able to be persuaded
> into acts of extreme violence. This
situation will exist for many years,
> probably decades, yet.
>
> They want what we want, and usually are able to get. But they are
held back
> by cultures which prevent the opportunity for even a
half-way all-round
> education and opportunities for enterprise and
employment. A huge effort is
> needed to implant the seeds of change in
those countries.
>
> I think the chances of sizeable wars between
America and Islamic countries
> is pretty high now. Quite besides
increasing provocations from extremists,
> several countries -- for
example, Saudi Arabia, Israel-Palestine, Pakistan,
> Afghanistan,
Indonesia -- are highly unstable. Even now, is it too much to
> hope
that the US State Department could start to think about peaceful
>
incursions into those countries by making offers, such as funding for
>
schools and medical centres, that even the most reactionary
politicians
> could not refuse?
>
> Keith Hudson
>
>
>
>
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> "Writers
used to write because they had something to say; now they write in
>
order to discover if they have something to say." John D. Barrow
>
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> Keith Hudson, Bath,
England; e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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