"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?"   |