GEORGE CARLIN died June 22 of a heart attack.
Carlin's show opened a window on the reality of mass opposition to the war that made me start actively looking for some kind of alternative to the way our society functions. Like most Americans, I heard nothing of these antiwar protests from the mainstream media. At the University of Iowa, over 2,000 people braved sub-zero February temperatures to march for hours. In fact, a short-lived but intense antiwar movement exploded in cities and on college campuses across the country in both the build-up to and the brief duration of "Operation Desert Storm." San Francisco had a mass demonstration of 100,000 people against the war. I realized for the first time that there were many people who were against the war.
Supposedly, 95 percent of Americans supported the war from beginning to end, but the crowd was cheering wildly at Carlin's furious take on the U.S. When's the last white people you can remember that we bombed? Can you remember any white people we've ever bombed? The Germans! Those are the only ones! And that's only because they were trying to cut in on our action.
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But we can bomb the shit out of your country all right!Įspecially if your country is full of brown people.Iraq, Panama, Grenada, Libya, if you got some brown people in your country, tell them to watch the fuck out! Or we'll goddamn bomb them!
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But we all believed that most Americans supported the war.Ĭan't build a decent car, can't make a TV set or a VCR worth a fuck, got no steel industry left, can't educate our young people, can't give health care to our old people. I was against the war, and so were my mom and dad, my older brother, my uncle, my aunt and my grandmother. military had killed tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians. I was a high school senior in Omaha, Neb., when George Bush (the first one) launched his assault on Iraq on January 16, 1991. ONE YEAR after the 1991 Persian Gulf War, George Carlin's cable television special "Jammin' in New York" debuted nationwide and revealed a sliver of the hidden truths of that war.
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