-Caveat Lector-
"BLOWBACK" FROM RTS BOMBING FORESEEN
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(CNNS, 04/24/99) -- You are living in a town, a "town that time
forgot." Beside the old city hall there's a small park,
"crisscrossed by paths and dotted with benches. On warm summer
evenings the townsfolk gather there around the bandstand to
gossip with their neighbors and listen to the concerts." [1]
Your town is a last bastion of a more innocent time, still
flowing in currents reminiscent of 1900. The newest craze is the
bicycle-built-for-two. Young lovers sip ice-cream sodas at the
downtown drug store.
But a change has occurred in your world, though you do not yet
see its effects. In the past few years, giant shopping malls
have landed outside town; they encircle the city. The downtown
is being gradually sucked dry by the encircling octopus.
Like your "town that time forgot," your entire nation still rests
in currents reminiscent of 1900. There is still hope and
idealism, but these have been more and more strangled by another
encircling octopus: the outside world. "For a long time the
United States had been able to develop independently, thanks to
her abundance of raw materials... [But] American industrialists
were soon in the thick of the world-wide scramble for markets and
more raw materials." [2]
This fight over raw materials and markets sucked your idyllic
nation into World War I, the "War to End All Wars." Your
neighbor's boy, John, a fine, handsome lad, catcher on the local
baseball team, died "over there." He read stories in the
newspapers, horrible stories, about "evil Huns." A passionate
young man, he put down his catcher's mit and picked up a rifle.
"Johnny got his gun," they say.
After the "War to End All Wars," your nation was never the same.
Violence here seemed to grow after each of the subsequent deadly
overseas "conflicts": World War II; Korea; Vietnam. There was a
strange "blowback": the more we killed others overseas, the more
we killed each other here at home.
Yet there was comfort: we controlled more and more raw
materials; we controlled more and more foreign markets. With the
price of blood paid in endless gallons, material wealth was the
recompense.
Now a new "conflict" draws us to Yugoslavia. Already the
escalating price of matter is demanding greater payments from
spirit. During the Vietnam "conflict," journalists were never
purposely killed by the "enemy." Yes, journalists reporting live
from Vietnam risked danger. But there was an unspoken sense of
honor, that non-combatants weren't to be knowingly shot dead.
But the inflationary price of raw materials and foreign markets
now has upped the ante: on Friday, April 23, 1999, U.S.-led NATO
deliberately dropped bombs on the Radio-TV Serbia (RTS) building
in downtown Belgrade. "There were many journalists, technicians
and other employees in the building at the time of the strike."
[3]
Here is an eyewitness account of the BLOODY aftermath of the
USA/NATO bombing of the RTS building:
We saw a woman shouting from the ruins: "Please, I am
here, help me!!" Some men tried to get her out. She was
walking around like a lunatic, shouting: "Where is Jelena?
Jelena, she is still in the building!!"
Then we saw somebody falling from the second floor. We saw
a man who was hanging upside down from the first, or second
floor, I dunno. His head was all covered in blood. His
legs were literary crushed by the concrete block.
Everybody tried to help him. He is (or was) around 20-25
years old.
People were running around dripping with blood. Fire and
smoke all over the place. Blood could be seen everywhere.
A real massacre.
Then a friend of mine shouted "This man is dead!!" I
didn't turn my head to see him because I thought I was
about to faint. My friends went a bit further, and saw the
corpse lying without a head. We also saw a pair of
(woman's) legs lying crushed by another concrete block. I
think that she was already dead, even though people tried
to pull her out.
It was terrible. I don't know if I described it well
enough. I am still shaking and I'm unable to think.
People were lying wounded all over the place. I can still
smell the mixture of blood and smoke. [4]
What will be the blowback, here in the United States, from
yesterday's newest carnage? We shall see. One thing for sure,
we've all of us aged quite a lot this past week: first from the
blood spilled at Columbine High; then from the blood spilled at
the RTS building. We're all a lot older now. The town baseball
team has stopped playing. The band concert has been cancelled.
The soda fountain has gone out of business. The bicycle has a
flat tire. The young lovers have broken off their engagement.
But at least the economy is good.
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[1] *Jack London and his Times: An Unconventional Biography*, by
Joan London. New York: Doubleday, 1939.
[2] Ibid.
[3] "RTS Resumes Broadcasting." Tanjug News Wire, 4/23/99
[4] "An Eyewitness Account of NATO Murders at Serb TV HQ." Truth
in Media Report, Day 31, Update 1. www.truthinmedia.org
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