Painting with the bloodstained brush
As you watch the treatment of Cesar Laurean in the media, pay careful attention to what you see.
The media is anxious ot find reasons to demonize servicemen, and this is the kind of bad apple that they LOVE.
See, Nam was a widely unpopular war- and the media didn’t have to do a THING, the filthy hippies did their job for them. Now, it’s unpopular for even the most left wing to speak ill of or not support the troops (if you support the troops you have to support their mission) but the media will be able to turn this ship around, if they can find enough Cesar Laurean types.
Just like the coverage of Roman Catholic priests who molest- (there isn’t any greater incidence of molesters among priests as the general public, it’s just REPORTED more) there are a lot of stories about men who kill women and disapear. And most are walking around, free men- but this one is getting play because they were both military, and that serves the agenda of the fourth estate.
Sunday, 60 minutes had a story on the Congo, where the teasers (I was listening on the radio, so I didn’t see the show, just heard it) were written as if “ohmygod, the vets are coming home and beating their wives” or at least that’s the way it sounded to me. THe actual story was brief and played badly, and if you missed it, you probably came away with the impression that we had a lot of psychos coming home from war.
Watch and learn. THis is how they tried to take away our guns. THis is how they succeed in being a nanny state. Don’t let it happen. As my friend Pascal says, habitual silence about this shit, constitutes approval of it.
12 comments Og | Uncategorized
Sorry, Og, but I think you’re way off base on this one.
If anything the media seems to be playing this one as “open season on white females,” which is tiresome but a topic that gets much attention. Seems to be played off between sessions of election non-news; it’s all designed to take our minds off what’s really going on as we’re worried about getting murdered while hiking or the continuing presidential soap opera. All My Children has nothing on the elections.
(Nobody remembers that women of all colors get disappeared every day and nobody thinks much about it.)
Want to be upset about something? Go see what Michael Chertoff is doing with national id; I’m much more worried about that than I am either serial killers, the dopey presidential race, or grunts on the run from bad acts.
Focus.
Jenny
sorry, jenny, I gotta give you a D- for reading comprehension on this one.
Now that I’m not posting from my phone… Jenny, it’s NONE of those things I’m worried about (well, not specifically) It’s the subversive action of the media. No, it’s not good that they do any of the other shit- and none of the other shit you mention is good- but the fact that the media will use shit like this to paint our entire military witht he same bloodstained brush.
No man should come back from war, protecting his country and countrymen, and be spit on. And this is their aim, I guarantee.
I dunno about that.
Were Vietnam vets abused on their return from their trip in country? Isolated incidents at best, I bet. It’s one of those urban legends and I wish it would be consigned beside the baby in the microwave.
I’ve known a lot of people in my life who served their country, in Vietnam and other places. I have never heard a one of them tell any of these stories; to the contrary, they were welcomed home.
I suspect you could point to any returning soldier of any war in our history and find someone who was disrespected somewhere going all the way back to those Revolutionary soldiers who had to come home and live next door to their Tory neighbors, you know THAT was a happy homecoming.
Hell, all you have to do is go to Walter Reed and see the great respect injured soldiers are held in. Go to any VA Hospital in the country and see how well our nation holds its commitment to the people sent to the front lines.
I don’t think that’s generated by the media — it’s our own government! Though media did report it.
Furthermore, even in my own home state when the media mentions soldiers, you know what they talk about? Mostly about soldiers who return home from their reserve service and get fired/laid off from their jobs . . . veterans who return with crippling injuries and how outsiders help them when the VA and the military does not . . . and all those feel-good stories when Daddy or Mommy comes home.
What do I hear about Cesar Laurean? That he is a Marine accused of murder who is on the run and may have escaped to the country of his birth — Mexico.
I have yet to see a single complaint about the Corps, their treatment of Lauren, or for that matter their treatment of the murder victim — the Corps took her complaints seriously even when her own mother publically referred to her as “a habitual liar.”
Dunno that this reflects on the Corps at all, or gun owners, or soldiers in general, or anyone at all except the people involved, alleged murderer and victim.
Besides, the media is too busy reporting on the really vital news of the day such as is Brittany Spears wearing underpants and who is today’s Soap Opera Queen For A Day beauty prize winner in presidential politics.
Just saying.
Jenny
I know around forty vietnam vets. I do not know a single one who was not spit on, reviled, or otherwise abused.
Not. A. Single. One.
Belive what you want, and note the increased tendency of the media to find reasons to demonize the military, every time they can.
“Dunno that this reflects on the Corps at all, or gun owners, or soldiers in general, or anyone at all except the people involved, alleged murderer and victim.”
You just took everything I said out of context.
Here’s a demonstrable truth: The left HATES the military, and always has.
Currently, because so many people have family members serving, it’s the kiss of death to say anything bad about the military. I see ongoing, clear evidence that the Media is trying to make it acceptible to speak ill of our servicemen and women. This just happens to be an isolated incident in a tidal wave I believe is on it’s way. Time will tell.
I made reference to gun owners specifically because the methods the media is using to demonize the military are EXACTLY the weapons they used to make gun owners into crazed beasts, when the obverse is provably true.
As for Britney et al, it is pretty obvious to me that the deliberate tactic of filling the news with “fluff” and interjecting it with “Hard facts” that redirect the public opinion to agree with theirs is intentional and calculated. As soon as the SPears story is over, they switch to the “hard news” reporter, who can ONLY be speaking truth to power, right?
And no way am I saying “this is the worst thing that’s ever happened in America”. I’m just saying, it’s wrong, and it sucks. And if everyone is silent about it, the people perpetrating it will get away with it.
As a Vietnam era vet, I can vouch for the fact being back in the states any time during the 60’s (before my watch)and early to mid 70’s (when I joined) was not a good time to be in uniform. This was especially true at transportation hubs (airports, railway stations, bus depots). If the hippies didn’t harass ya the damn Hare Krishna’s did. Was not spit on, but was shouted at, given dirty looks, ect. To be fair it was at San Fran International…and I was a Sailor, vice Army or Marine, but it DID happen.
As a member of the media, with plenty of acquaintances on the broadcast side of the biz, I’m telling you you are 100% correct about the Laurean case. It’s being sensationalized on televsion ’cause they were both in the military. Maybe it would have made the national newscasts if they werwe civilians too. But the story certainly would not have dragged out so long.
I hate to see anything like this happen to anyone. And I can only pray for the people involved. But I’m damned if I’m gonna stand by utterly silent when it’s clearly a way- as I said- of painting our military with a bloodstained brush.
Isn’t it amazing how they always portray the professionally trained, disciplined soldier as the violently uncontrolled, undisciplined specimen of beast, like the gorilla behind the bars at the zoo, but the insurgents and terrorists, they are never battle fatigued victims of a belligerent society, they never snap in civilian life, they’re all angels. The PLO, the Hezbollah, they’re not trained killers. The Vietnam veteran is portrayed as this psychologically ruined person who can never adapt to life, but you never hear of the Viet Cong soldiers being anything but good Viet citizens who’d never hurt civilians or come home from war damaged goods. The Marine who killed that woman will be portrayed as a victim of “Bush’s War” in some way, shape, or form, but the suicide bomber, oh, he’s a rational reaction to what WE do.
We don’t need the damn ChiComs or the muslims to do us in – the leftists will do a good job of that on their own.
It took me a few times before I would comment on this particular post, but instead I posit another discussion on the same thing over at jezebel: Lookit.
@ JamesB: I too am a media member, and I don’t agree with you at all. I mean, we’re still talking about Natalee Holloway, and she wasn’t in the armed forces.
jesus, Broad, you could hardly point to a bigger bunch of nuts, could you.
So you are saying to James that the media is not paying attention to this because of the military ties? I call bullshit. The Holloway thing has it’s own media circuis associated, but this is about harming the military, and as time goes on this will prove itself. Watch and learn.