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Freedom Of Speech In Losing Battles

Elaine Meinel Supkis

In supposedly 'free' countries we find lots of censorship, harrassment of reporters who don't work for the propaganda arms of the quasi-government and of course, blatant attempts at intimidation and imprisonment of anyone challenging the government's status quos.

Here is a typical story of police brutality aimed at preventing citizens from witnessing police actions.

From Category 305 News: Written by Rebecca Wakefield

On Feb. 20, around 7:30 p.m., I was on the phone with Category 305 photojournalist Carlos Miller about a story I'd asked him to do on the rapid gentrification happening along Biscayne Boulevard in Miami‘s Upper Eastside.

Miller told me that two minutes after we had spoken, he walked onto a scene that included several City of Miami police cars parked in the intersection of 67th Street and Biscayne Boulevard. They were parked along the torn up western section of the boulevard, which is closed to traffic. Five officers were interrogating a man, possibly in relation to a minor accident, although Miller only heard something along the lines of “You know we can arrest you for this.”

Great, Miller thought. He’d been looking for a few shots that would help illustrate the crime aspect of his story. But since most of the Biscayne streetwalkers and their pimps have been pushed north to 79th Street, it wasn’t as easy as it would have been just a year ago.

Miller, who estimates he was about 20 yards from the officers, began to shoot. Immediately, a female officer he identified as Officer Reid turned to him and said, “Sir, may I help you?”

The police helped him by beating him up and then arresting him for resisting arrest. I was once arrested this way. The only way I could prevent a police beating was to call for witnesses. To my surprise, this being an ordinary day, not some political event, over a hundred people came around and the police attacked the crowd that was only watching.

This started a riot. They then tried to charge me for inciting a riot only I had several hundred witnesses willing to tell the truth, that I asked the crowd to step back and let the police take me in.

The police have this ugly habit of lying. If there are no witnesses, they will make up stuff to their heart's content. In the case of this reporter, he had visual proof he was obeying the law and they were the criminals.

He is now suing them but this will not stop the police from intimidating witnesses in the future. They have been doing this all my life. What appalls me is how the mainstream media won't report this. Online magazines and newsmedia like Culture of Life News is legitimate and the courts have ruled in our favor in this regard.

We may be individually small, but we are part of the greater organization and the bigger fish better protect us small fry because when we go, they get fried, too.

Even far rightwing or left wing publications are legitimate and should be given freedom of speech and the right to investigate.

From the Revolutionary Communist Party news:

In October 2006, Bush signed into law the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007. Quietly slipped into the law at the last minute, at the request of the Bush administration, were sections changing important legal principles, dating back 200 years, which limit the U.S. government’s ability to use the military to intervene in domestic affairs. These changes would allow Bush, whenever he thinks it necessary, to institute martial law—under which the military takes direct control over civilian administration.

Sec. 1042 of the Act, "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies," effectively overturns what is known as posse comitatus.

So far, the mainstream media has mostly green-lighted any despotic moves our government makes. It is hard to keep up with Congress and Bush, what devilish plans they have to kill the Constitution which is wonderfully clear about things like 'freedom of speech' and 'the right to assembly' and 'the right to petition'. After 9/11, the Constitution fell faster than the WTC building and done in by the same gang.

Now, in the twilight of our once-democratic republic, we can still see the light of Liberty dimly shining and we can still turn back the clock if we want but even the Democrats don't seem to care about undoing the destruction so far.

Whoever runs for President better run on a platform that is very simple: they will respect the Constitution and restore it in all its glory.

Persecution is everywhere.

From MosNews

The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by the prosecution for criminal insult of a Russian journalist who satirized President Vladimir Putin’s campaign to boost the birth rate, the group said in a statement published on its official website.

Vladimir Rakhmankov, editor-in-chief of the independent news Web site Kursiv, went on trial today in the city of Ivanovo, northeast of Moscow, charged with insulting the president in a May article titled “Putin as Russia’s phallic symbol.” The article satirized Putin’s goal, outlined in the president’s state of the nation address in May, of increasing Russia’s population.

Many bloggers mock our ruler. And years ago, he would stop us. When I used to run a little scheme inside the New York Times forums called 'Goooood morning, America!' which mocked the GOP and Bush specifically, he sent Haley Barbour to New York and he met with the Times who then banned me. I knew about this because a publication that is now defunct, the Brill's Report, told readers about it. To my shock.

Then an editor at the Times called me and told me, she tried to stop it. There are good people out there. They just have to shut up to keep their jobs.

Now we have our own websites. I don't have thousands and thousands of readers anymore but I have full editorial control over content and publication. But we are losing even that as many countries persecute people for publishing things that are obviously well within the realm of acceptance.

This poor Russian writer is terrified he will be murdered and I fear he is correct. The media in America should be putting him on the front page but he is barely noticed, just like the poor Egyptian student who is being put in prison for telling the truth about police brutality.

Quelle horreurs! The French government is curbing online reporters!

, From IDG News Service - Peter Sayer

The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned on Tuesday.

The council chose an unfortunate anniversary to publish its decision approving the law, which came exactly 16 years after Los Angeles police officers beating Rodney King were filmed by amateur videographer George Holliday on the night of March 3, 1991. The officers’ acquittal at the end on April 29, 1992 sparked riots in Los Angeles.

If we could go to the mainstream with these videos, photographs, etc, all would be well. But it is sick. For even if we provide pictures, the media will censor or lie about them. When the Israeli bulldozer driver murdered Rachel Corrie, the New York Times refused to show the film or photos that showed clearly, it was murder. They instead described the event in a totally dishonest way in order to hide the crime.

I learn much more from online reporters than the mainstream. I use them as a springboard but I trust the online news much more even if they are wrong, they are right far, far more often.

Heil, Merkel! Unser Fuehrerin!

From Germarrudolf.com

On March 20, 1997, the Austrian authorities confiscated all computers of the Internet Provider VIP located in Vienna, because it hosted a website with child pornography. In protest to this censorship all Internet service providers of Austria shut down all their services for two hours on March 25, 1997, but to no avail. [http://www.vov.de/von-uns/presse/mitteilung.phtml?id=40]. Also in early 1997, the head of CompuServe Germany, Felix Somm, was indicted for distributing pornographic as well as dissenting historical and political material deemed illegal in Germany. First sentenced to a two years suspended prison term, Somm was acquitted in late 1999 during his appeal only because the court stated that there is currently no technology available allowing the filtering of internet content [Associated Press, November 17, 1999, http://www.cyber-rights.org/isps/somm-dec.htm]. That decision meant, however, that Internet service providers will be held responsible for content hosted on computers located in Germany. It also meant that the intentional spreading of illegal content can and will be prosecuted and punished, which means that placing links to illegal content can suffice to cause a criminal investigation. [http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/51930: fined for placing links to political right-wingers]

This restriction to their own territory did not stop the German authorities, who keep threatening Internet service providers to filter out websites that have a content deemed illegal in Germany. In 1999, the German Supreme Court decided that even foreign citizens not residing in Germany who put content on the Internet deemed illegal in Germany will be prosecuted and sentenced, should they dare to step onto German soil.

If Nazis don't have free speech, no one has free speech. Increasingly, Europeans are getting angry about this. Now no one can challenge all sorts of goofy historic factoids. Whatever it is, it can no longer be even talked about. I harp about how we killed all the Neanderthals. This was true 'genocide.' Indeed, our destruction of many speices is 'genocide' writ large. We killed of much of the fauna and flora of many ecosystems back when we murdered all the Neanderthals.

People still refuse to accept this horrible fact. Maybe I should arrest everyone who refuses to admit guilt! Every scientist, writer or commentator, all swept into prisons! I could represent all the dead Neanderthals and sue for this privilage!

And this is how silly it all is: eveything should be open to debate, even obvious facts that seem plain as day.

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AIPAC Cheers Cheney And There Is Only ONE News Story

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This is a screen shot of the NYT search engine for any news about the AIPAC mass-gathering this week.

Elaine Meinel Supkis

All Democratic candidates for President along with Cheney, cheered AIPAC this week. They were all begging for money and nice media attention and note how Cheney is virtually never mentioned in the press these days? And the media made fun of Valarie Plame? Well, this is why! AIPAC loves Cheney.

AIPAC rules DC and the airwaves.

By Gregory Levey (Salon)

Mar. 16, 2007 | At the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee this week in Washington, a conservative Christian couple from eastern Tennessee told me that their son had decided to join the Israeli army. It was one of many surreal moments during the three-day gathering hosted by AIPAC, the lobbying group devoted to ensuring close U.S.-Israel ties that remains extraordinarily influential in Washington. "We just love God, and we just love Israel," the couple beamed, when I asked why they had come to the conference.

Amid an energized and at times almost circuslike atmosphere, just about everyone in attendance shared two main preoccupations: the 2008 U.S. presidential election and confronting Iran. And this year's conference saw record attendance: more than 6,000 people, coming from every state in the country and exceeding last year's crowd of around 5,000. Many of them were American Jews, of course, but the evangelical Christian community also made a strong showing. For those feeling apocalyptic about the turmoil in the Middle East, pastor John Hagee was there to greet them. Of the many prominent speakers at the conference, Hagee got one of the most enthusiastic receptions.

"The sleeping giant of Christian Zionism has awoken!" Hagee proclaimed, taking the microphone at the opening dinner reception on Sunday. The electrified crowd -- most of it Jewish -- roared in support, pounding on the tables. Hagee went on to declare the United Nations a "political brothel" and asserted that Israel must never give up land. He agreed with Israeli writer Dore Gold that granting part of Jerusalem to the Palestinians would be "tantamount to turning it over to the Taliban." And, after rebuking Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he led the crowd in a chant of "Israel lives!" urging them to "shout it from the mountaintops!"

At first I was going to write about the how deranged many Jewish people have become, embracing lunatics who are actively working to create the Apocalypse so they can kill all the Jews or force them to love a vicious Jesus who will kill anyone who doesn't love him. After all, nothing is possibly worse than the ultimate plans these rank anti-semites have. They are, to be blunt, Nazis.

But the right wing Jews have embraced Naziism. So I suppose they are the same thing at this point. Only the Jews want to destroy Islam. So make this a three-way death-a-thon: the Muslims hate the Jews who hate them and the Christians plan to kill everyone. Right? Good.

But aside from that bizarre triple decker death-wish, we have something much more annoying here: I tried to look up stories about Cheney, Mr. Invisible VP. He has been hiding from us for quite a while. But not from AIPAC! Far from hiding from them, he stalks amoungst them as a conquering hero because he wants non-stop wars with people Israeli Jews (there are non-Jews in Israel so I will not call these warmongers 'Israelis' since that implies Muslims in Israel are the same, this is strictly a Jewish thing) want to kill or suppress or destroy.

Cheney was a big hit at the biggest bash to occur so far this year in DC: AIPAC's annual Nüremberg Wanna Be Fest. Seig Heil! So, I decided to google more stories besides the Salon story and so I went to the NYT and clicked on their search engine and got this:

OK. So none of the thousands of Jewish readers of the New York Times, some of whom definitely give to AIPAC or are on some of AIPAC's committees, didn't want to know about this convention, right? HAHAHA. And the Jewish owners of the New York Times didn't know about AIPAC's little...talk about Shadowlands!

Shadowlands is this disgusting, dark place where people doing all sorts of extremely violent and dangerous stuff gather. They have these cloaking devices that prevent others from seeing them. The CIA is 100% shadowlands. Cheney is in trouble for uncovering Valerie Plame's shadow world, for example.

But this stuff is cloaked because the very violent Israel-supporting Jews in the USA don't want anyone to know how they have utterly corrupted the government and openly bribe politicians to work for Israel and not the USA.

In other words, they are foreign agents that get Congress, while cutting funds to New Orleans, will give them to illegal Jewish settlers to resettle them on stolen Palestinian lands! At this nearly totally hidden convention attended by NEARLY ALL AMERICAN POLITICIANS IN DC, they all worried about 'giving part of Jerusalem to the Muslims,'---isn't that some cheek? Like as if people living in that city for the last 1,000 years have no right to live there at all? Seig Heil, Moses.

Did the army of American politicians march out in disgust when this was said there? And what color is a dollar bill? Excuse me, but this is rank treason as well as...bribes are killing our democracy. The AIPAC aliens even boast about how they have corrupted both parties equally. Quite.

In rather a rage, I went to the Washington Post to search them for any mention of this totally public yet utterly secret convention. Here is a screen shot:

Nearly nothing. Froomkin has, on page 5 today, on his BLOG, a paragraph from the Salon article. No commentary. But at least he had the grace to mention it off handedly, sort of.

Here is one of the very, very few articles about this convention by a Jewish publication:

Cheney's appeal is part of Bush-administration efforts in recent months to shore up support for the Iraq war in quarters it once took for granted: Republicans in Congress, the Christian right and now the pro-Israel community.

His message was not received enthusiastically: Only about one-third to one-half of the audience in the cavernous Washington Convention Center hall applauded politely.

Behind Cheney, some AIPAC board members sat stone-faced, including Amy Friedkin, a past AIPAC president who is close to Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and a fierce critic of the administration's handling of the war.

It's not just that three-quarters of American Jews -- more than any other religious group -- now think the Iraq war was a mistake. That's partly due to perceptions that the war's failure has emboldened Iran and its nuclear ambitions, which AIPAC considers the gravest challenge to Israel.

Cheney's speech was jarring because the tone of this year's meeting was to have been emphatically bipartisan -- even more than normal for AIPAC, the powerhouse lobby that prides itself on crossing party lines.

This article strives to pretend Cheney wasn't popular at all and most of the AIPAC owners of our Congress are anti-Iraq war but look at Congress: they can't pass even a mild rebuke to Bush about increasing the war! Nor will more than two or three dare say something about not attacking Iran! So I wanted more points of view about simple facts: did or did not these Jewish/right wing Nazi Christians applaud wildly or not?

Here is a Muslim site that only cites Salon:

America's powerful Israel lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), held a recent summit that featured moments described by one writer as "surreal," "energized" and even "circuslike."

"AIPAC's three-day summit included fiery evangelical oratory, adoration for Dick Cheney -- and new plans for going after Iran," reports Gregory Levey for Salon.

When I used the Google 'news of the day' search, normally big meetings that feature 90% of Washington DC's power elites including the nearly never in public Cheney would have 2-3000 stories from AP on down. But lo and behold! There were only three or four and most tellingly, several JOKE sites like the stupid Wonkette and the even dumber Onion.

Hahaha. Laugh, laugh, laugh. So, we had this massive meeting of corrupt money weilded in proxy by a foreign nation that has attracted an army of American politicians and they talked about WARS? And this isn't NEWS????

What the effing HELL is going on here? Today, thousands of Americans and people across the planet demonstrated against the Iraq war. This did make the news this time. But no mention that many of these demonstrators want no war with Iran, too. Again, the super-cloaking device that hides reality went to work.

Here is the Zionist neo-con of the Washington Post, whining about people calling Cheney 'insane':

By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, March 16, 2007; Page A21

"What is wrong with Dick Cheney?" asks Michelle Cottle in the inaugural issue of the newly relaunched New Republic. She then spends the next 1,900 words marshaling evidence suggesting that his cardiac disease has left him demented and mentally disordered.

What were the chances that Krauthammer, a notorious Zionist supporter of AIPAC, was at that little lovefest? 100%? Or more? And did he talk about this? No?

The need to conceal true intentions is a sure fire sign of criminality. And we can plainly see there are many criminals and I would say, quite a number of traitors in DC. And note that many so-called 'liberals' in the Democratic party never seem to get their asses into gear to pass campaign finance laws that eliminate the power of lobbies like this notorious and dangerous group!

This is why our media coverage is like swiss cheese: there are many holes in the cheese and these are so many in number, one can see straight through it. The cheese is our democracy and unfortunately, it is being hollowed out rapidly by criminals, thieves and traitors.

Ever since the Baker/Hamilton commission tried to bring some sanity to our Near Eastern disasters, the AIPAC crowd has been hard at work destroying any possibility of any diplomacy with any of the people or nations we are at odds with. This is why they are very, very anxious to start a shooting war with Iran and Syria. They know time is running against them as more and more people become disgusted with the ethnic/religious cleansing going on in the misnamed 'Holy Land'.

Hiding their activities with the help of their brethern and sistern (sic) in the media isn't going to make things turn out fabulous with the Jewish community. Instead, this will cause the second Holocaust and the allies who are rapidly infilitrating AIPAC, the Nazi-leaning right wing Christians, will be the leaders and executioners of this new Holocaust.

And AIPAC isn't hidden from these people! They are INSIDE! They are seeing everything, hearing everything and they will take everything and turn it into a sword and run it right through the bellies of the Jewish leadership!

How can anyone not see this? It is painfully obvious to me. The Jewish community has to denounce AIPAC and quickly disband it and tell the Jews colonizing Israel, they must do this on their own dime. And no one in America should have divided loyalties. Just like my German half of my own family: in WWI and WWII, we were 100% for the USA. Not one bit for Germany. We fought Germany. My father even entered Germany as an OSS officer.

And this is what patriotism is all about and I despise ALL the politicians who sold their flag so dearly to a foreign power.

APPENDIX TO THIS STORY:

Kristof, in tomorrow's NYT editorial page, talks about Israel and our politicians they own.

Whether they have "learned to muzzle themselves" or they "just don't get it," US politicians should stop biting their tongues when it comes to Israel, New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof argues in Sunday's paper.

"Democrats are railing at just about everything President Bush does, with one prominent exception: Bush's crushing embrace of Israel," Kristof writes.

And since "[t]here is no serious political debate among either Democrats or Republicans about our policy toward Israelis and Palestinians," Kristof believes, the "silence harms America, Middle East peace prospects and Israel itself."

See how this invisibility works? This Jewish editorialist (how unusual!) pretends he cannot for the life of himself, understand why our politicians (he does NOT mention the media) cannot critisize Israel even slightly. How droll.

Was this man at the AIPAC convention? Were any NYT editorialists and reporters there at all? Didn't any invitations go out to them and their families and friends and business cohorts? Was it that...hahaha. Of course. Our politicians mysteriously cannot talk about Israel or support Palestine or demand Israel not drop bombs on schools and orphanages in Lebanon. I remember that war: the entire political class from top to bottom aside from a tiny, tiny handful of mavericks, joined with Israel in denouncing Hezbollah alone.

And this is due to a simple fact: people serve those who pay them and those who put them in power and the New York Times and all the other media outlets support only tools of Zionism. They attack anyone else with tremendous fury to the point of, as in the case of Gore and Carter, lying about them and making up quotes and in general, acting like Scientologists.

Shame of Kristof. He should go back to whining about Darfur and buying prostitutes in Cambodia.

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The Media Is Now Taking Down Bush Just Like Nixon

We have had fake elections since the 2000 mess. This was due to both the Republicans cheating and using rigged voting machines and purging minorities from polling lists and the Supreme Court simply cancelling an election entirely, all the right wing Republicans there voting to not count the votes. And the media helped them steal these elections. Now the media, working for rich people, are hammering Bush over all this. Har.

The media is happily hammering away at Bush.

(CBS/AP) One of the eight recently fired U.S. attorneys at the center of a growing political scandal tells CBS News that he lost his job because he "did not play ball" with powerful Republicans.

"I believe, and I think all my colleagues believe, the real reason is partisan politics," the former U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico, David Iglesias told CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric. "I believe I was fired because I did not play ball with two members of the Republican delegation here in New Mexico. I did not give them privileged information that could have been used in the October and November time frame."

I have a long memory. I can even remember three months ago. Back then, the media was dissing Valarie Plame and the prosecutor in the case where, anxious to launch a totally illegal invasion for oil and Israel, the USA was desperately cooking up false charges against Saddam. Plame's husband, ambassador Wilson, blew out the gaskets of the war machine by telling the truth about the alleged 'Yellow Cake' documents which were total forgeries.

During the run up to the war, we yelled about these forgeries and we said, there was no proof Saddam had any WMD. The uproar caused by us protesters across the entire earth forced the UN to send in inspectors who found absolutely nothing so Bush invaded anyway.

This invasion is the big crime. All others are auxillary. But the bigger crime was the theft of the 2000 election. The media is complicit in this crime. When they should have been hammering away at BUSH to get the votes in Florida counted properly, when they should have assured the American people, counting votes is more important than rushing to victory and if it took a year to count the votes, so be it.

Nor did the media yell for election reforms! They hammmered on GORE to give it up! They CHEERED when the Supreme Court nixed the election and Time magazine even had the temerity to have a huge headline, 'Constitutional Crisis Avoided!' just as the Consitution was rippped to shreds and the Supreme Court amazingly announced, one couldn't cite 'Bush vs Gore' as precedent for anything! Astonishing.

We were told to shut up. We demanded the media report the national tally of that election, namely, which candidate got the most votes, overall. They refused. They refused because it clearly showed Gore got the most votes! Behind the scenes, writers online like myself fought daily battles with these monsters and they refused to tell the American people the simple fact that Al Gore won the popular vote even without the disputed Florida ballots!

And to get those counted, the media promised us they would form a consortium and count the votes for us. But when they saw that Gore clearly won Florida, they held off reporting about it. Finally, they said they would release the data on September 12, 2001.

After 9/11, they refused to release the data and held it for two more months and then released a lie: Bush really won. They refused to show us the actual data because they were lying. And in the run up to the next elections, they lied about nearly everything.

When not two but FIVE districts using Republican-owned electronic voting machines reported the GOP candidates for the House won by votes of 18181 each, the media had a little story saying, 'Two districts for the first time in histroy, had the same tallies in an election.' When it turned out to be five, we said, 'This is no coincidence, this is a sign that someone rigged the votes!' On top of all this, that is a hyper-harmonic magic number so beloved by the Skull and Bones.

The media turned off its hearing aids and refused to listen to us. Then we had the rigged 2004 election. The media frankly told us to shut the hell up. Bush won, hahaha. Well, here comes tons of proof it was rigged by the GOP and the lawyer mess is all about being asked to rig the election and to leak stories to the press attacking only Democratic candidates, etc.

Like with Nixon, we knew he cheated on his elections, grossly. With tons of help from the media. This is why our candidate for office in Nixon's second election lost. The media hid the truth about McGovern's heroic war past while elevating Nixon's own past (sound familiar?) and they hid Nixon's drinking and cursing while finding every tiny flaw in his opponent and focusing only on these 'flaws' and exaggerating everything while ho-humming Nixon's obvious stuff like the Watergate break-in which we knew during the election was co-ordinated by him because he was an OBVIOUS control freak like Bush.

But the media savagely attacked us, not Nixon. They celebrated his great victory which was a conspiracy between rich media owners and he. The war in Vietnam was disintigrating badly and they all acted as if America wanted that war-monger, Nixon, to lead us.

Then Nixon refused to fight for Israel. He did cooperate with covering up the fact that the Israelis shot down the Liberty and machinegunned the survivors. But the owners of the media were frowning on him now. Then the economy pancaked.

Suddenly there were investigations all over the place and the media which was hither to, deaf to anything bad about Nixon suddenly became a spring flood of breaking news as he retreated from his wage-PRICE controls that so infuriated the rich, it was too late because the stock market tanked...badly and for several long years.

So the media discovered reality. I laughed at the time with full scorn. I had no TV because it fed nothing but lies but I bought a set for the Watergate Hearings. It was dark amusement. Pregnant with my first child, I was very sick and had to be kept in bed so I wouldn't miscarry. So I wrote letters to the editor and watched those hearings like a hawk.

I will note here how the Washington Post, a ruling-elite's war-mongering rag suddenly broke one story after another. Nixon correctly saw this as a Jewish conspiracy which it was in some ways. He cursed them but then the cursing its self, suddenly made the news and down the tubes he slid and out the door with the press howling all the way.

So we see again: when Bush was offering huge tax cuts and huge no-pay-back loans to Israel and gave Israel a green light to torture Palestinians and starve them to death in ghettoes and attack whomever they wish and the invasion of Iraq on their behalf, etc, the media saw nothing wrong as he committed one crime after another, the invasion of Iraq being the most hideous of these crimes.

When we expected the media to write stories of this scandal or another like the male sex whore who was brought into the White House with the gaggle of press geese, Gannon, the media pretended we were hallucinating. They then attacked us and defended Gannon and pretended he was being wrongly defamed. When gay bloggers outed him and had photographic proof he was a prostitute and we demanded the White House release records of all his overnight stays, the media attacked the gay bloggers like at Americablog and tried to defame THEM!

This happened over and over again just like when a team we had at Salon uncovered Bush going AWOL: the media refused to carry the story, then they attacked us by name, personally (they even misspelled my own name not once but several times, heh) the New York Times even curtly told me, 'You have to prove where he WAS during those years you say he was AWOL.' which was sheer nonsense. The media refused to raise a storm about this and when the storm over his drunk driving (much less, the coke) arrests broke, the media itself defended Bush and praised his 'honesty' in talking about it when he was actually lying about it and they worked with him to pretend his drunken daughters would be devastated to learn, daddy drank like a fish at home, too.

Which reminds me of the first anthrax victim: the photo-editor for the Sun in Florida who was the man who OKed the infamous Jenna drunk photos. This was so obviously a case of revenge pulled by the former head of the CIA, it isn't funny. Never, ever do the media mention this happanstance. Why would the first victim of the obviously political anthrax assassin be this totally obscure and odd person that only the Bushes had a grudge against?

And in the 2004 election with an AWOL President running a messed-up invasion versus a war hero (again!), the media hammered Dan Rather because he fell for a classic Karl Rove trick when he was fed a possibly fake document concerning Bush's AWOL status. We knew Bush was an AWOL but the media joined right wing bloggers in attacking only Dan Rather and protecting or concealing Bush's dirty secrets. They did it well enough to allow him to steal yet another election.

So many crimes, so little attention. This is deliberate: the media owners and the rich want to chase Bush out of office because he is profoundly unpopular now. And the economy is going off the cliff. And they need a silent coup and nothing is better than to chase him and his crew out of DC and replace them with tools of the rich who are bland like Ford was vis a vis Nixon.

They so NOT want anyone to go to prison. This might lead to spilling of beans they, themselves, are holding. Many of them are traitors and criminals themselves and the last thing they want is for people to apply the law to THEM. So everyone is going to pretend all is well just like after Watergate, with the retreat of the criminals back into the Shadows.

Unlike in the Seventies, though, the economic mess this time is much worse and much more dangerous.

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