and then our exile

I am an angry man. Still disgruntled as per last night. Especially as the media coverage is blah. Turns out McCallum was here too--a thousand-strong crowd inside. And every radio clip--that maddening, infuriating "stars are for christmas trees! stars are for christmas trees!" ---and they want us to do a PR stunt? Ha we should be our own comedians. Forget Azhar Usman, forget Muntaka, Bill Cosby--we should laugh at ourselves until we cry. And Doug Meggison (always him.) on radio: "this is just so obviously a ploy to manipulate public opinion"--if he would possibly say something about the reason we were there, the reason spelled out in destruction and blood and death all across Central Asia... though to be fair that's not probably his fault--CBC probably chose the quote. Zionist Media.
And in Afghanistan, the biggest assault on the freedom fighters continues.
Basically, my feathers = still ruffled.
Maybe it's better we were outside, though. If we were inside, I'd feel better about actualizing the potential of the event, but we would also open ourselves to massive confrontation---all these people talking about bloody freedom and dying for what we believe in and the greatest sacrifice and all that which, when you get to the bottom of it, is feces. And the "bravery" learned in the hills above Shah-i-Kot....
man. It should make me cry heart's blood.

I'll try to be decent today though. I came back and last night wrote till 1:30, which was good.

Media coverage: one two three

More things, and trying to move on from the blah that was last night: if this person had been Muslim, the media would've blitzed. Like, seriously. "this has all the markings of al-Qaida!" "it is the ragheads of the East!" "experts say [shaykh-ul-jihad] Usama is behind it!" Instead, there's no news about her anywhere, and it "didn't appear as though she meant to hurt anyone." Also, Japan means to send troops to Iraq, "to help in all the reconstruction goin' on over there"; some good news, though, today. A short article on the nine children and the US assault. Taliban attacks on US troops intensify... Ha this measure is *sure* to endear the US to Iraqis: wrapping villages in barbed wire, creating bantustans parallel to those of Occupied Palestine. And now, as an ending-note, THIS is a decent piece.

Listening: /If I Had A Rocket Launcher/