CYBERSPACE REPORT #38-MAY 20th-1999 EDITION


Bill Weber

DO AS I SAY - NOT AS I DO
A Lesson in Violence

In the last few weeks, since the Littlton Colorado school massacre, our President has meet with parents , teachers and top executives in the entertainmet field to discuss proposals of eliminating violence in our schools and society and appealing to makers of violent movies and video games to be aware of what their display of violence does to our young people.

Yet that same President Clinton, is conducting one of the most vicious video games yet concocted. This is a video game where the lives and properties of the people of Yugoslavia are real and not some fake character on a video screen.

The two boys, who supposidly were the killers in the Littleon School Massacare, were said to have been infatuated by violent video games. Among which was Doom. I have seen the video game Doom It is very violent , although less violent than the original army training Video game I understand..

No doubt there are young people to day who are watching Clinton's video game of the century being acted out in Yugoslavia and thinking. "Hey! look what can be done from a command post hidden away from ones target. Wow! we can send satalitte directed missels to almost any point in the world and hit our target precisly. If we knock out our enemies communication system than the rest of the world will not know what attrocites we are committing. If NATO can do it on a big scale we can do it on a small scale.

Some say that those young men in Littleton, looked to Hitler as a role model. Someday some of those who look to Bill Clinton as a role model may say, "Hey! wasn't that cool how Eric and Pete broke the army satalite code and hooked up their computers to the the army guidance program and were able to send their guided missel and blast that school and all its students to oblivion because jocks called them nerds."

President Clinton -GET REAL, what you and NATO are doing in Yugoslovia by dropping hundreds of bombs and guided missels on a sovereign Nation will have a far greater impact on our youth of tomorrow than all the violent movies and video games put together.

Jesse Jackson said, "The world knows we have the military power to do what we want, but do we have the negotiating will to do what is right."

Movies and video games no doubt lead to violence but the real culprit is the everyday violence that our leaders foster upon other members of our world society.

Let us stop the bombing of Yugoslavia and go back to the United Nations, which was created to deal with disputes between nations and work out a just peace for all concerned.
LET THAT BE THE MESSAGE FOR OUR YOUNG PEOPLE

After the 2nd World War I spent 3 years in Germany helping do relief work among the German population. We were stationed at Koblenz . It was 1946, most of downtown Koblenz was in shambles. People living in bomb out house or air raid shelters. Many without heat, food or clothing.

Now 50 years later, we see again thousands of war refugees without, food, heat or only the clothes they have on their backs. Violence breeds violence.
IT IS TIME WE SENT THE RIGHT MESSAGE TO OUR CHILDREN.

LISTED BELOW IS A NUMBER OF INTERESTING WEB SITES
DEALING WITH THE WAR IN YUGOSLAVIA.

  • Z Magazine on U.S./NATO Bombings:
    http://zmag.org/Zmag/kosovo.htm
  • American Friends Service Committeee:
    http://www.afsc.org/
  • Mother Jones:
    http://motherjones.com/mustreads/032299.html#TC
  • Princess Elizaabeth Foundation
    http://Princess-Elizabeth.org./
  • Nonviolence Web:
    http://nonviolence.org.
  • News Page from Serbia:
    http://www.serbia-info.com/
  • Amnesty International:
    http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/intcam/kosovo/index.html
  • Human Rights Watch: Kosovo Focus on Human Rights:
    http://www.hrw.org/hrw/campaigns/kosovo98/index.htm
  • Transnational Center for Peace:
    http://www.transnational.org/new/index.html
  • Fellowship of Reconciliation
    http://www.nonviolence.org/for/pr0399d.htm,