Bill Moyers on Occupy Wall Street
4 months ago
this may be a bit controversial, but to me it illustrates a lot of the cultural tension between the Western world and the Arab world. The respective nations attack and point out dangerous aspects of the other, ignoring many parallels and similarities* in both cultures’ social issues/oppression.
*not simply a right-wing problem (see: sexism), but the more ‘radical’ religious sects of each are almost mirror images of each other.
The LAPD, The FBI and The CIA
The LAPD, The FBI, and the CIA are all trying to prove that they are the best at apprehending criminals. The President decides to give them a test. He releases a rabbit into a forest and each of them has to catch it.
The CIA goes in. They place animal informants throughout the forest. They question all plant and mineral witnesses. After three months of extensive investigations they conclude that rabbits do not exist.
The FBI goes in. After two weeks with no leads they burn the forest, killing everything in it, including the rabbit, and they make no apologies. The rabbit had it coming.
The LAPD goes in. They come out two hours later with a badly beaten bear. The bear is yelling: “Okay! Okay! I’m a rabbit! I’m a rabbit!’
(Source: justice.pen.io)
