"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a
little longer"--Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of
State
One fundamental understanding of our living relationships is the
concept of languaging, that is the coordination of our behaviour to
become more intelligent individually and collectively. Our language
such as English or French or Italian or Arabic or Chinese... is just
a component of our social languaging as languaging also includes our
families, our communities, our culture.
Our English language evolved with time and this is why we go back
to the English dictionary to discover the roots of the words we use
today. We must understand that the same English word could be
understood differently by different people, and this is one reason
why we have misunderstanding between people. However, if we are more
intelligent, we could bridge this misunderstanding by knowing more
about the roots of our English words and put them into their
historical context.
I have been saying for sometime that people are being brainwashed
by the artificial language created by the Chicago School of
Economics. This artificial language is known as Free Market and it
is marketed by our hegemonic big corporations and their 'appointed'
governments. When I reflect a little bit about the Free Market
language I realize more and more that this Free Market language is a
conspiracy to hijack the thinking and the lives of common people.
And one of the major culprits of this Free Market conspiracy is our
corporate media.
Yesterday morning I was watching CNN on television while
personality Paula Zahn was interviewing two people in regard to the
controversial antiterrorist legislation and executive order to
establish military tribunals to convict non-citizen terrorists by
secretive trials, by secretive evidence and by secretive judgments
with no appeals. At one point, personality Paula Zahn asked the
question of the type
"how could anyone object to the establishment of secretive
military tribunals if our opinion polls have both the highest
support ever for President Bush and the related Ashcroft's anti
terrorism measures?"
And this is where our misunderstanding is rooted: in the
opinion polls! We have anti terrorism measures infringing on the
US Constitution and on the freedom of the American people, yet
opinion polls guide the Bush Administration. The US Constitution has
been there for more than two centuries to protect the freedom of the
American people. The constitution provides the American people with
a vision on how to conduct their civil lives, and now the Bush
Administration is telling the people that the world has changed on
September 11, 2001 and that we don't need the vision of a
constitution anymore.
There is a difference between opinion polls and the vision of the
constitution. We are told that opinion polls are scientifically
precise within a margin of error of maybe plus or minus .01 percent
as at a given day of the year. The US constitution is the vision of
a nation and of its people, and President George Bush and Attorney
General John Ashcroft are infringing on the Constitution as they run
their country by opinion polls.
I would like to ask personality Paula Zahn to have this daily
opinion survey on CNN's web site "do you support the constitution or
you support the Bush's and Ashcroft's anti terrorism measures?" |