1027 Every media scare I have ever heard in 3 breaths...
...and one that should have been but wasn't...
April 1, 2008 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| Hello, this is Stefan Molyneux from Free Domain Radio. | |
| This is every single piece of overblown government and media hype that I have ever heard in about three breaths. | |
| DDT, acid rain, global warming, global cooling, climate change, running out of food, oil, water, nuclear war, nuclear winter, killer bees, life-threatening pollution, overpopulation, terrorism, crime waves, ozone holes, ALR apples, drugs, water fluoridation, SARS, bird flu, antibiotic-resistant super germs, | |
| genetically modified food, pesticides, West Nile virus, super corporations enslaving everyone, foreign workers taking all the jobs, communism, subliminal advertising messages, gene therapy, T-cell research, cloning, gene patenine, saccharine, Axprin NutraSweet! | |
| Wine, caffeine, beef, eggs, anthrax, running out of radio spectrums, homosexuality is mental illness, foreskins is responsible for AIDS, violence discriminates against women, the wage gap, girls most shortchanged by schools, cyclamate and saccharine, song lyrics, disease-causing breast implants, any intakes of fatty foods, | |
| various animal extinction scares, high-tension electricity towers causing cancer, cell phones causing cancer, killer asteroids, peak oil, private arms, gun control, illegal aliens, stopping a warm Gulfstream, oil spills, chicken pox, mercury poisoning from fish, spinach, E. coli, Dirty bombs, | |
| bubonic plague, space race, Reagan, Star Wars, the supposed crime tsunami that came with crack cocaine, recycling, apples with razor blades in them, plastic bag, hysteria, rogue states, genetically modified foods, child abduction, asbestos, LSD, hidden in stickers, street gangs, and mad cow disease. | |
| With all of these scares, With all of this hysteria, with all of this claustrophobic concern for your health and well-being and the sanctity of human life, what is the one activity that the mainstream media decided to really, really, really get behind? | |
| WAR! These events happen in our name. | |
| And each and every single one of you are responsible for this as well. | |
| I'll never forget this. There was a very young PFC, I believe. | |
| He was standing in the back of the pickup truck. | |
| And as they rolled by, he lifted one of the decapitated heads in front of me And he basically said, we really screwed these guys up, didn't we? | |
| So my first question to the people who were training us on how to do this was, you know, how do they understand? | |
| I mean, they don't speak English. | |
| And he said, well, they're just like animals. | |
| They're just like dogs. If you keep yelling at them, it doesn't matter what language you're yelling at them, and they're going to get the point. | |
| The cultural competency training that we received can be best summed up in a sentence. | |
| Don't touch the people of Iraq's left hand. | |
| They wipe their ass with it. | |
| And that's what we got. | |
| While we all have responsibility for racism and its roots are incredibly deep, it really does come from the top. | |
| And I looked at my sergeant and I was like, Sergeant, these aren't the men that we're looking for. | |
| They told me, don't worry. | |
| I'm sure they would have done something anyways. | |
| In this process of dehumanization, every veteran knows that the first person to become dehumanized is a soldier themself. | |
| They're all used from day one to break people down. | |
| Do we know how long a war in Iraq will last? | |
| Has there been any assessment for the American people of how much a war in Iraq will cost our economy? | |
| One of the main roles that the US military has played in Iraq has been to ensure That U.S. war corporations make a killing off of that war. | |
| I'm now an Iraq war vet. | |
| I'm standing in a line with homeless people being served free food, and this is actually happening to me. | |
| This is actually happening to our Iraq-era war vets, and that I'm one of them, and I'm a casualty of that system. | |
| These are the consequences for sending young men and women to battle. | |
| These are the things that happened. | |
| What I'd like to ask anyone who's witnessing this or anyone who's viewing this testimony is to imagine your loved ones put in such positions. | |
| Your brothers, your sisters, your nieces, your nephews and more importantly and maybe most importantly to be able to put ourselves in the Iraqi shoes who encountered these events every day and have for the last five years. | |
| They forget A million Iraqis have died. | |
| I want to take this time to apologize to the Iraqi people for the things that I helped to do and the actions that people in my unit and myself did while I was there. | |
| Thank you. I cannot die this way. |
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