Posted on 09/22/2001 6:36:04 AM PDT by OKSooner
This morning on Fox News, they ended a segment with a clip of Neil Young, in his old cowboy hat, singing IMAGINE. This was at last nite's show in Hollywood to presumably benefit the families of the victims of the act of war in New York.
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The show sucked. It was not thematic. They were showcasing their own dubious talent and pursuing their own agendas. If they thought they were trying to help, it was a gross perversion of the word.
Why would you get angry at them? You don't think it's a good cause? Donating their time in very short notice to raise millions of dollars for the victims?
They were there because their regular concerts were cancelled out of fear, safety, or respect.
If the public reaction is any guage, I would guess that the grand total raised was $12.36, after expenses, of course.
What are wars, crime, and fights in the world most often fought over? Religion, and possessions.
Religion is a unifying force. Throughout history, the absence of modern religion led to endless tribal conflicts. See Africa today, the Middle East in the 6th century and Germany in the 3rd century.
So-called religious wars rarely are. The agressor or defender will often use religion (or race or ideology or culture) as a tool for gaining alliances.
I do a lot of research and one area I investigate are foundations and how they use the money for "their" causes.
This will be no different.
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.
also excerpt:
"There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience."
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Hmmmm...I have absolutely NO IDEA...
It shows.
The didn't have time to get their phonied-up glitz together. It didn't remind me of anything so much as it did those photo spreads of starlets without makeup. You know, the ones than make you involuntarily shriek in horror.
The worst thing was, their hearts really weren't in it. It needed a focus they could readily identify with. For example, if it had been a benefit to raise money for all AIDs victims, lesbians, and gays who died in the conflagration (they're still getting the numbers together), they would have been much more effecitve.
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