Beheading the centers of information warfare would be the end of Western culture.
I had to read the whole thing to find the actual prediction. So you assume a simultaneous or at least closely-spaced annihilation of CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, BBC buildings ? With moles that have been planted there years ago, with penile implants, I assume. And then targeted execution of remaining key employees to the point where appearing on TV becomes really, really unattractive proposition ? Maybe. What would american sheeple do in the morning without TV ? I mean, you wake up, turn on the tube and there is just a station logo there, because even the weatherman was found shot in the back of his head. What do you do next ? There is NO TV in he evening. You must stare at your ugly family or even talk with morons. US would disintegrate within 48 hours.
There are a relative few choke points for information distribution in the West. Not all would have to be taken out at the same time, only a few, then a pause to process intelligence garnered from the second attack along with that of the first was on the WTC and Pentagon (the anthrax attack provided intelligence for the same planners whether done by them or planned for a later intel-gathering operation). The short-lived patriotism after WTC/Pentagon has been transformed into uncritical jingoism in the US and surprisingly in the copycat UK. There has been a stead build-up of intelligence by fire from the various bombings of US installations leading up to WYC and the Pentagon, as several military and intellgience analysts have noted. And still the US and its allies have not been able to halt the attacks, despite round-up of a few low level operatives and convictions -- but no public execution or other merciless acts of retribution, or none that have been publicized. The Afghan bombing has been exhibited as relatively bloodless except for the killing of journalists and a single CIA officer -- agents of information which have become the pariahs of many societies, not all of them non-Western. What would have an effect in the West is not only attacks on the infrastructure of information and its celebrated leaders but its variety of participants -- students, teachers, preachers, educators, journalists, publicists, ad writers, entertainers, intellectual property creators and producers and exporters, lawyers and a slew of professionals. These are the sources of the offensive content and the tools, hardware, and weapons that accompany the content, that drive opponents to murderous rage in defense of their own cultural content. The Western conceit that its culture is so superior that it must impose it on others through missionary campaigns now many centuries old, through economic policies, through eduation, through foreign policies, through military enforcement, and through disparagement of other cultures, has bred a deep seated anger toward the prime exporters, the idea supremacists of state, church and family. Despite tolerant pretensions, the West has been the bloodiest culture that ever existed, and is getting meaner and more vicious as its technological prowess grows and its intellectual abilities decline -- as with all powerful bandits which get more stupid as they conquer by force. The US superpower vainglory is what keeps it ever blind to the weakness of its power: it's obessession with secrecy and belief that hardware will prevail over software, those standard signs of power corruption preceding a fall. All power aggrandizement thrives on cloaking its predations with claims of superiority -- state, church and family -- and refusal to consider that it is not as good as it dreams of being, that is, the powerful take promotional material for reality. Empires are susceptible to having their illusions shattered when their cosmeticians lose their skill at concealing the rot. Or to put it another way, when long successful cosmetic schemes lose their power to deceive. The US military is a shell of an effective military operation, sustained more by publicity than by successful action. It has had no enemy to test its promise since WW2 when it gained a foothold in US culture through citizen military service and luxurious payoffs to industry and education, especially education and training for advancing Western culture through economic, political and social exports. Targets for centers of these exports are not hard to identify, and they are not nuclear plants, bridges, water supplies, and digital infrastructure, probably not even Washington DC icons of political power -- these are propounded as in urgent need of protection to divert attention from crucial nodes. Again, to see which are juicy targets for undermining Western culture, look to those hardly protected at all except by obscurity, by never being mentioned as needing protection, by never promoted as ideas, places and people of influence, by being those supporters of Western culture which are so fundamental to it the culture would not be identifiable without them. These targets are not celebrated, they are taken for granted as if to last forever, well, as long as King George lasted on the American continent (his reign did not end with the American revolution but went overground into our most distinguished institutions of rank, privilege, elitism, secrecy, deceit and conceit).
At 09:53 PM 12/27/01 -0800, John Young wrote:
Targets for centers of these exports are not hard to identify,
After the WTC, the only truly theatrically worth it encore I can think of is a stinger at the space shuttle. This would not trepan the serpent but would kick the angst up a notch. Then again, there's always Utah...
John Young wrote: [...]
The short-lived patriotism after WTC/Pentagon has been transformed into uncritical jingoism in the US and surprisingly in the copycat UK.
Why "surprisingly"? Every UK administration since 1945 has been America's poodle in foreign affairs and military matters. [...]
These targets are not celebrated, they are taken for granted as if to last forever, well, as long as King George lasted on the American continent
<ahem> George III's rule on the American continent lasted longer than George Washington's did. The present Queen is *still* the head of state of more of the American continent than the president of the USA is (http://www.communication.gc.ca/facts/geography_e.html) Ken Brown (I may be British but I'm not a bloody monarchist - though I don't mind the royals as much in places like Canada & Australia as I do here http://www.cix.co.uk/~kbrown/rotm/1999nov.htm)
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