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Originally Posted by billethkid
If one compares,
the focus of the media and so called celebrities like Jackson and Sharpton and the crowds protesting whatever they have been programmed to protest,
to,
any such similar reaction by the American people.....
it is obvious there is a major distinction in coverage.
The Ferguson incident has doubts surrounding it and yet there was displayed group outrage demanding something be done by somebody for something not yet understod in it's entirety.
The beheading of Americans accompanied by statements bragging not only about doing so, but bragging to do more as well as targeting all Americans has no doubts what so ever.
But where is the outrage? Where are the catalysts like Jackson and Sharpton et al to stir the public. Where are the cameras and reporters seeking demonstrations of the American public?
Yes, some of us display our feelings on forums like TOTV and some of us call and write our lawmakers and some of us write to Obama. But there is no groundswell of public outrage demanding something to be done.
Until those who govern our lives in Washington see the uprising of we the people they will continue POLITICS AS USUAL relying on a lethargic and apothetic public.....that too automatically will also go back to business as usual.
Where is the public outcry?
Is it that we have become manageable.....I do believe that to be the case.....UNFORTUNATELY for us.
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I agree wholeheartedly with your post.
My take on our lethargy pertaining to just about anything these days is "we have the attention span of a gnat". Unless you are the parents or relatives, or even very close friends of these young men, do we retain this type of information for any length of time. I don't think so. Which is probably why these atrocities continue. I believe it was last night that I watched a young woman (just imagine what they would do to her) reporting from Syria and I could only shudder to think of her alone in that awful country reporting to the rest of the world stuff we would otherwise not know about. She is freelance, very attractive and so very vulnerable and it terrifies me to think of her doing her reporting.
We need someone we would follow to the ends of the earth ............... someone who could inspire greatness in all of us .............. and we are not going to find it in any of the politicians from either side of the spectrum that we have now.