“The Legacy of Bin Laden” by Immortal Technique
Technorati tags: Immortal Technique, Commentary, Osama Bin Laden, Alternative Viewpoint
If your first reaction was "Immortal who?", don't fret too much.
Like most people in today's Belieberlicious world, there's a high probability that you have never heard of Immortal Technique. Even for yours truly, a non-Belieber, but a musicologist of sorts, Walski was only introduced to the man through this article.
Immortal Technique, stage name for Peruvian-born rapper Felipe Andres Coronel, provides us with some very powerful and thought-provoking prose about how he views the death of Osama Bin Laden.
Not only is this piece powerful, but it’s true power is in how intelligently and beautifully it has been written.
Granted, the essay is longer than our fast-food mind would usually like it (hold the pickles), but if you endure the effort, you'll probably agree that this piece is a must read. It is perhaps the best thing Walski has seen written relating to the demise of the No. 1 World's Hated...
In a world that has been flooded by news, there is usually nothing that rises far above the smoldering lava of sensation—that which consumes all truth and absorbs all lies mixing them into a fiery lake or stew of bubbling nonsense. So much so, that to discover glanced over facts, to question people of importance within government or the machine itself leads to the branding of one as a “conspiracy theorist.”
Truthfully, there are many people who lived life with doubt over the facts surrounding 9/11, who felt afraid to express it, probably because they feared being accused of “hating America,” of being “with the terrorists,” hence sympathizing with the people who were responsible for killing all of those who died on 9/11. You talk to people like this at work, you see them walking by you everyday, you can read their rants on message boards or in chat rooms around the world, insulting people who present their doubts. Some choose to not question anything to fit in, others just figure their opinion is irrelevant and doesn’t change anything. After all, there is such thing as human error and no matter how much the government or people in it stand to gain, they could have a made a mistake, by mistake, and not on purpose. Some secrets are best kept secrets in the interest of national security. However, if national security means protecting the abuse of power and the negligence of authority, then it is not the security of a nation that is being protected, but the indulgences of the corrupt.
Of course, the counterpart to this position, which creates the fervor of hatred and disrespectful debate, is the believer of all conspiracy theories and repeater of random information with only websites as sources. The angry person who blows up a postal truck because they think that their tax dollars shouldn’t go to excessive spending, or things like bombing people or paying mercenaries triple for what soldiers should be doing. This person is sometimes purposefully placed in that position and given a platform as a deterrent for the people who actually have a truth to be heard and taken seriously. This is what we term an agent provocateur, a mole planted to make the real issues lose credibility mixed in with insanity.
Not all people who doubt the official version of the story are raving lunatics, though. Some have an honest distrust of their own government. Some are veterans of a war like Vietnam who know that the people who run the United States of America are very capable of lying even to the best and bravest of those who risk their lives to defend the dwindling freedoms that we enjoy. Others are youthful minds, seeking to present themselves as different than the bland and overwhelmingly planned out and boring existence that chokes anything original or radical around them.
