From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Sun Jun 10 2001 - 09:14:17 MDT
Somewhat wordy though interesting take on Jim Bell and homeland defense.
"Homeland Defense is a slyly nuanced term with peculiar associations.
The nationalist turn of phrase ‘homeland’ seems a coyly anachronistic
representation of a superpower who, after all, jangles the keys to the
world’s premier war machine. The locution manages to collapse the
geopolitics of lebensraum onto the realpolitik of the suburban gated
community, in a style both disingenuously naïve and jingoistic at the
same time, appealing to an era when government posters issued strident
calls-to-arms, like the WWII classic: "Warning! Our Homes Are in Danger
Now!". The vintage war bond poster's fundraising success is being
matched by HD's rhetorical gambit, which is swelling the war chest
dedicated to neutralizing the homeland’s insidious enemies."
http://cartome.org/homeland.htm
-Mike
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