Letters to the Editor
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Amen Salon! The Blogosphere and Internet are the Hope of the the World
From 1980-1985, I was a telecommunications technician in the USAF. I helped maintain large communcations systems that became part of the backbone of the present internet. In fact, for one night, in 1982, as part of an excersize, I was responsible (for 8 hours), for maintaining the entire ARAPNET network of computers... I didn't invent the internet, but yes indeed I have been part of this wonderful revolution... and since 1994 have helped build websites and portals...
Never did I dream that the Internet, largely funded by commerce and capitalism and built on a framework designed by military folks and engineering geeks would become the best, last hope for mankind.
It is.
The Internet is the hope for mankind because it is the last place where truth, the unvarnished, unbiased truth, can live.
In virtually every other media, commerce trumps truth. Not just at FOX Spews, but elsewhere.
For the most part, Salon has been a bright, shining example of how truth sets us free. The prisons in Iraq, the selling of the War, the Coruption on K Street... Salon was there and is here, now, keeping us in the loop on what's going wrong... so we can make it right!
Nora Ephram, on a column on the Huffington Post yesterday, decried the Gulags in Havana run by our Monarch in Chief, GWBush-league, as an example of how complicity, in our collective silence, equals shared blame.
I agree. We HAVE to keep reading the truth, even though it hurts. We HAVE to keep telling the truth to our co-workers and ditto heads and O-Reilyittes, because if we dont, WE ALL reap the whirlwind.
Bravo, Salon. Here's a chink in the armor of willfull ignorance that is so pervasive in our society.
You know, a few days after McCain "strolled freely" in the Bagdad market, most of those happy shopkeepers were rounded up and shot by folks whe didn't think McCain's visit was the flower-power event he portrayed.
Did you get that news today in the mainstream? No. McCain admitted, on 60 Minutes on Sunday, that he mispoke about his level of protection and much more... did we get that on the tube? No.
We got stories about Imus, who uttered a slur. Imus is an idiot, a buffoon, and should be run out of town on a rail.. but is THAT the most compelling, important, far reaching, affect all of our lives important? More so that imminent war in Iran and worse? No.
So, Salon, write on. Readers, read on. Forward links to your friends.
Convince them that the rhetoric that we should ALL be talking about is stuff we agree on.. which should start with the truth.