Subj : Distractions To : Alan Ianson From : Lee Lofaso Date : Sun May 05 2024 16:15:32 Hello Alan, >>> They are similar in that innocent people are being killed. >> Are you sure? People have been killed during these university protests? I >> honestly have not heard about that. AI> I think you've lost the plot. No one has been killed during the protests. AI> The protest is about innocent civilians being killed in Gaza and the like. It is more than that. So much more than that. During the Vietnam War students chanted "LBJ! LBJ! How many kids did you kill today?" Nixon did not fare much better, especially after what happened at Kent State. >> If so then it's the media's fault. AI> The media? Again!? :) Yeah. That's the ticket. Blame it on the media. There are two sides in every conflict. Whether in Gaza or on college campuses, it is always the same. Somebody is going to pay dearly for all the mess created. And then somebody else is going to clean it all up. >> They are the ones fomenting the protests. It's all the attention that turns >> them on. AI> The issue is civilians being killed in Gaza. No one is "turned on" by that. It is not just innocent civilians who are being killed in Gaza, but also journalists and reporters. Along with innocent bystanders (most of them from Syria and Iran and other far off places). But let's not get ahead of ourselves. Talk about overkill. Hamas & Co. kidnaps a small handful of tourists at a music festival, and then uses them as bait to gain attention for their plight. Remember, these are freedom fighters defending their own people and land from foreign invaders. This whole thing would have been over within a week had Israel had any sense. But no. The Israeli prime minister would have none of that. >>>> They are both occuring during a presidential election year, >>> There is more going on in the world than an election. >> There is nothing more important to the world's elite than the US >> presidential >> election. AI> Sure, the upcoming election is important but it has nothing to do with the AI> current protests. >>>> they both are motivated by division, >>> What division? >> The students think that they need to take sides when really there is no >> reason to take sides since we live thousands of miles away from somebody >> else's conflict. AI> Students are not taking sides, they are protesting a war they feel is AI> unjustified. Students are taking sides. I see it every day. On campus at LSU, and across the country. Of course, these are all students, not really from Israel or Gaza. Some of them even have their own sleeping bags, and stay near the cafeteria, where they can get free food and coffee. AI> BLM was not taking sides, they were protesting unjustified killings by AI> police. Campus security never bothered checking student IDs. So why should anybody else? Problem is, I could never pass the sniff test at my age. So I had to sit this one out. AI> These are not left/right blue/red issues. This is very clearly an age issue. Anybody old enough to drink is prohibited from participating. That means both you and me are fuddy duddies and cannot play. >>>> they both are getting way more attention from the media than they >>> deserv >>>> and they both are stirring up idiots. >>> These people are not idiots. They feel strongly about innocent people >>> being killed and they protest. >> Reacting strongly to something you saw on TV is idiotic. There's no way >> that >> all those idiots were raped by Palestinians or had their IDs checked by >> Israelis. But it's plausible that they all watch too much TV. AI> The war and killing in the middle east and other places is real, it's not a AI> sitcom on TV. And yet most people view it as such. Who is fighting to defend Ukrainians from an invading Russian army? It is not America, Canada, or Europe. Who is fighting to defend Palestinians from an invading IDF controlled by a mad Israeli PM? It is not America, Canada, or Europe. What we have here in America is a mercenary army. Uncle Sam pays them for their time, sending them to places of his own choosing. And then they do exactly what they have been told, and trained, to do. And what is that, you might ask? Kill, kill, kill. >>> The protest is about America financing a war they feel is unjust. >> I should be glad that all these idiots are angry with Biden, but what about >> punishing the perpetrators of the coordinated attack on Israeli civilians? AI> It's not Biden, it's long standing policy. The USA continues to fund Israel's war machine, even as it murders innocent Palestinians in Gaza (35000+). Most of those men, women, and children are homeless, and starving. Famine will be the end result, and we all know who will wind up with more land. For Life, Lee -- Biden 2024 - Finisth The Job --- MesNews/1.08.05.00-gb * Origin: news://eljaco.se:4119 (2:203/2) .