Face the Nation and Dick Cheney

US anti-war demonstrators are invisible to the U.S. government

Dick Cheney was featured on the "Face the Nation" Sunday morning tv show. Cheney was asked why there are protests around the world against the US govt war on Iraq. Cheney's answer was that people around the world didn't experience 9-11.

The questioner didn't ask Cheney, why people in the U.S. are demonstrating in great numbers all around the country against war. He didn't point out how there was all manner and means used to prevent a march in NYC against the war on February 15 2003. Yet at least several hundred thousand and perhaps almost a million people tried to protest. Police blocked many people from getting to the demonstration that had been given a permit. People in NYC who went to the demonstration on February 15, 2003, had signs thanking people and countries around the world for standing up to the U.S. government.

Just yesterday there was a large march in Washington DC against the war. So how could Cheney say that people around the world are protesting the US government plan for war against Iraq because people in other countries hadn't experienced 9-11? How could the moderator just let that stand and not ask about Americans and New Yorkers who are protesting.

In the US, all possible means are used to create a milieu of lies to justify an illegal and immoral activity by a small group of US government officials and whoever they represent. The advertisement on CBS News, which sponsored the program says that this was brought to us by Cisco Systems and Merrill Lynch. And the Cisco advertisement was about how people around the world are being tied together by the Internet, but it didn't use the word Internet. Instead, it said they are brought together by "Cisco Systems".

So this is the world of show, this is the world that is manufactured to make excuses for government decisions in the US that have no relationship to the people. This is the world that claims the Internet exists because of Cisco system.

Many cities around the country have passed resolutions condemning war. There is no means of people affecting the federal government, except by going out into the streets. And the government officials don't have any knowledge or regard for the demonstrations in their own country or their own city. This is what the U.S. government and the US media like Face the Nation are presenting to people around the world as "democracy".

To not allow people who opposed what the government of the US is doing to march on February 15, 2003 is not democracy. This is in no way democracy. That is some of what the demonstrations in the US and around the world are about. They are about how these anti-democratic government people can be functioning as if they are not part of any responsible entity. They are part of rougue governments.

Then to have the nerve to say on tv that the reason there are protests around the world is because those people haven't experienced 9-11 is an incredible insult to the people of the world and to the people of the US and NYC and to those who died in 9-11.

People who had loved ones who died in 9-11 have spoken out about how they want justice, not wars against other civilians. Many others around NYC and the US and the world who felt the sadness about this cruel loss of life, also want justice, not wars against other civilians around the world. We want a lawful world, a world where governments respect international and national law.