We at this site are appalled at the needless bloodshed at the Boston Marathon yesterday, an atrocity as sickening in its global repetitiveness as it is as an individual act. As organizations, states and individuals continue to insist on killing and maiming innocent civilians as a way of getting back at their perceived enemies, more and more innocent lives are lost. Until we stop this vicious cycle of killing each others weakest and most innocent to further our aims and make ourselves feel big and tough, this is just going to go on and on.
But there’s another related subject we also want to approach here, a corollary to the problem that needs to be dealt with before we, as a society, can get started back on the road to bettering our world and our lives as we strive for a more perfect existence.
We speak of the excesses of the neo-conservative ‘evilution’. Once again, in the midst of this horror, there they were, almost feeding off it like vampires (we wonder if this whole youth-oriented vampire phenomenon that exists today isn’t somehow their creation?).
The New York Post is owned by Fox News and Rupert Murdoch. Although they eventually removed it, we’re quick on the draw and saw what they were reporting before they pulled the story from their website.
They ‘reported’ in their coverage of the Boston marathon bombings that there were 12 dead not 2, that the authorities already had the bomber in custody, that the New York Post knew he was a Saudi citizen and various other little misguided claims, none of which was even remotely factual. But Fox and Rupert Murdoch never let facts get in the way of a chance to rouse rabble when the opportunity presents itself.
This is something we as citizens of the world need to understand and be aware of. Right-wing news organizations (and for that matter right-wing political organizations) routinely lie to pursue their own agenda. In this country they will lie about Justin Trudeau, they will lie about crime, they will lie about immigrants, they will lie lie lie and all to pursue their objectives without any regard for the harm they cause with their exaggerations and obfuscations.
A huge step on the road to global peace and harmony, a step that we can all take with a little diligence on our part, no matter how small a player on the global stage we may perceive ourselves to be, is to stop listening to the lies, stop listening to the liars, stop listening to the neo-con right and their descent into madness. Then their evil whispers and sick twisted agenda will drift away in the breeze never to bother us again.
