My sentiments exactly Shannon!!!!! Well said.

Angelique



At 12:10 PM 2/5/2004 -0500, Shannon Marie Smith wrote:
>Kudos to Tom.
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>We are in the middle of presidential primaries, Ricin found in our own
>state senator's office, and CIA Director Tenant saying Iraq was never
>stated by analysts to be an imminent threat. And the biggest story on the
>news this morning was the continued saga of Janet's right breast.  Which,
>by the way, we all got a good view of on the cover of Rolling Stone a few
>years ago.  Both of them.
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>What we as Americans view as news very rarely is. Oblivion is a dangerous
>thing.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: UTC Staff E-Mail List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>Tom Bodkin
>Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 11:17 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: [UTCSTAFF] Wake Up Call - Repulsive Super Bowl Halftime
>
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>Friends,
>The only reason there is a nationwide and UTC-wide discussion of immoral
>behavior by the halftime performers is because the United States
>government and CBS want you to. They want you to spend the rest of the
>year (at least through November) discussing nipples and pseudo-lesbians in
>order to distract America from the REAL issue, which is the grassroots
>ground swelling controversy over the unwarranted and blatant censorship of
>the MoveOn.org commercial. The perfect defense to the massive build-up by
>activists on CBS's border was to create a moral dilemma with Janet
>Jackson's breast. If you want to raise your voice over something, how
>about joining the grassroots movement and help remove the war criminal
>from the Oval Office. Offended? Take a look at the future of your civil
>rights and you should be offended. Take a look at human rights violations
>and you should be offended by what our country does. If you're not
>offended, at least consider the possibility that you've become blinded by
>the government's wool. Tom Bodkin Adjunct Faculty, Forensic Anthropologist
>"Breasts are natural, I have them too!"

Angelique Cook
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