tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-843238192021182104.post3221844564221138009..comments2023-10-01T06:25:51.571-04:00Comments on Clear Stream Media: Drone Action Oct 13 in New PaltzClear Stream Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06984449308592175155noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-843238192021182104.post-42928801015431188932012-11-13T11:15:52.549-05:002012-11-13T11:15:52.549-05:00Thank you Monika and Jonathon. Carl Sagan's qu...Thank you Monika and Jonathon. Carl Sagan's quote is so timely- wish he were still with us. I think progressives are going to make ending drone warfare a real priority. We all need to do our part! Jonathon did you see the video of our protest? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl110JD2uaUClear Stream Mediahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06984449308592175155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-843238192021182104.post-68603947926305315742012-10-12T21:48:36.381-04:002012-10-12T21:48:36.381-04:00As a fellow activist and writer, I am glad to see ...As a fellow activist and writer, I am glad to see that the drone "war" is finally starting to get the attention it deserves at both the local and federal level. <br /><br />These aerial death machines allow for wars to be waged in secret, without oversight, and without loss of life on our side, the latter point being the most dangerous of all. When there are no casualties on our side, there's no interest from the public, which leads to no interest from the news media (where ratings always supersede truth). <br /><br />War is being made far too easy and innocent people are paying the price for it, all with your tax dollars. Since we're all indirectly responsible for what's happening, don't we have a direct responsibility to do something?<br /><br />"In warfare, man against man, it is common for each side to dehumanize the other so that there will be none of the natural misgivings that a human being has at slaughtering another. The Nazis achieved this goal comprehensively by declaring whole peoples untermenschen, subhumans. It was then permissible, after such reclassification, to deprive these peoples of civil liberties, enslave them, and murder them. The Nazis are the most monstrous, but not the most recent, example. Many other cases could be quoted. For Americans, covert reclassifications of other peoples as untermenschen has been the lubricant of military involvements, where other human beings, military adversaries but inheritors of an ancient culture, are decried as gooks, slopeheads, slanteyes, and so on—a litany of dehumanization—until our soldiers and airmen could feel comfortable at slaughtering them. Automated warfare and aerial destruction of unseen targets make such dehumanization all the easier. It increases the 'efficiency' of warfare because it undercuts our sympathies with our fellow creatures. If we do not see whom we kill, we feel not nearly so bad about murder. And if we can so easily rationalize the slaughter of others of our own species, how much more difficult will it be to have reverence for intelligent individuals of different species?"<br />-- Carl Sagan James Earl Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07211828707647432728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-843238192021182104.post-3048365813605437222012-10-10T15:28:01.668-04:002012-10-10T15:28:01.668-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.JustinBarleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06693791930800560527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-843238192021182104.post-60376855017884518232012-10-04T19:53:14.478-04:002012-10-04T19:53:14.478-04:00Thank you, Barb, for taking this on. Drones are ac...Thank you, Barb, for taking this on. Drones are activated brain power without heart. We do need to take a stance against this latest technological "wonder" turned against all humanity.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10685003991000175728noreply@blogger.com