From: harryo@cbnewse.cb.att.com (harold.r.holm)
Subject: Re: Boycott GE info
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 05:54:55 GMT
Summary: A WHALE of a boycott...

In article <rdkd3INNhdd@agate.berkeley.edu>, mitja@hera.Berkeley.EDU (Mitja Baumhackl) writes:
> This article appeared in the San Francisco Examiner, 4/1/92, page A1
> 
> OSCARS BRING GE BOYCOTT TO LIGHT
> S.F. Filmaker's speech for best documentary boosts interest in protest
> by Keay Davidson, Examiner Science Writer
> 
> In a few seconds Monday night, Debra Chasnoff of San Francisco may have
> called more attention to the boycott of a mighty corporation than have years
> of grass-roots protest.
> 
> "Boycott GE!" delcared the 34-year-old documentary filmmaker as she accepted
> an Oscar for her 29 minute expose of the company best known for its light
> bulbs -- but that also builds nuclear weapons.
> 
> The boycott was the subject of Chasnoff's Oscar-winning film, "Deadly
> Deception:  General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment," now
> available on videotape form INFACT.  Chasnoff is a member of the San
> Francisco Film and Video Arts Commission.
> 
> In her acceptance speech, Chasnoff said that "GE spent hundreds of millions
> of dollars claiming that it brings good things to life."
> 
Comment: I noted this with great interest, as did our fawn-over-protest
mass media. CNN gave it special note (well, what with Ted 'n Jane at the
helm, no wonder).  to continue....

Doesn't this just suit the Wealthy Hollywood Airhead Left Elites (WHALEs,
for short) perfectly?  Yep, they just eat this stuff up with relish---for
breakfast, lunch, and dinner (oops, sorry, I forgot *brunch*, likely at 
some upscale, chic, snobby L.A. area bbeeeeeeeeestro). Anyway, it figures
that the WHALEs would step all over themselves cheering this to the hilt.
Radical-pacifist-producer-with-chip-on-shoulder-takes-on-corporate-U.S.-
big-capitalist-badguy-multi-national-conglomerate-over-making-nukes. 
Well, Martin Sheen, Ed Asner, Paul Newman, etc., must have had their
political egos inflated to the max and left breathless.  Strike up the
band, guys, 'cause now you and your fellow entertainment establishment
activists have a new *cause* to play suck-up toady to, for publicity's
sake.  Yup, now the WHALEs can once again crank up their image as 
experts-on-anything-they-don't-like, and encourage their associates
to find alternate brand lightbulbs with which to light up their ivory-
tower Southern CA luxury homes.  (I hope the power source is nuclear-
generated, for good measure!)

Strange, isn't it...how the Hollow (oops, Holly)wood establishment
so openly loathes would-be violence by nuclear weapons, yet produces
and self-awards productions which revel in other forms of violence,
year in and year out, literally almost by the megaton?  Why does the
Hollywood Establishment decry one perceived dark side of human 
activity while at the same time so handily--and *profitably*--focusing
its energies on depicting (if not celebrating) other dark sides?
And look what we end up with:  pretentious entertainment celebrities
marching for activist (re: left-wing) causes, yielding nothing but
*meaningless* exploitation of otherwise important issues. 

How two-faced of the Hollywood Establishment and its morally bankrupt
WHALE lap-mutt.  Decry one perceived evil, while celebrating others
in some of the garbage it produces and congratulates itself on. 
What's it worth?  Nary a bucket 'o spit on some of those applicable
starred-sidewalk squares outside that Hollywood theatre/restaurant,
or whatever....

> According to a Boston group called INFACT, "GE makes critical components to
> more nuclear weapons systems than any other corporation, including parts for
> the B2 stealth bomber, Trident submarine, B-1B bomber and MX missile, and
> the neutron generator that triggers every U.S. nuclear bomb."

That's right, I s'ppose, and here's thanks to GE for it.  Served us well,
in a sense.  Now why not let GE stride on with CAT scanners, etc??
After all, isn't that the sort of thing which left-types are always
screaming for corporations to do??

I have to go now...gotta figure out how much GE stock I can afford to
purchase, and bring even more good things to life for our WHALEs...
among others.

                                              H.R. Holm

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