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Corporate Media Police State, Smile!
why is corporate media so silent about the USA PATRIOT bill? it really is ridiculous, what the fuk is happening in this country?!
http://www.topica.com/lists/prorev/read/message.html?mid=1605196179&sort=d&start=144
*** ON NPR'S DIANE REHM SHOW, her pet media analysts mumbled
incoherently about the actual contents of the law and then joked about the possibility that the FBI might send suspects to Israel or Arab counties to be tortured. One declared that "there have to be vast compromises with the rights" of Americans. Rehm, for her part, saw nothing wrong with all this and referred to those opposing the law as
"civil liberties activists." Someone should explain to her that the correct term for people who support the U.S. Constitution is "American."
. . . FOX NEWS was even more casual about the bill promoting an upcoming report from the White House on legislation under which "your rights as a citizen will undergo a huge change" and then, without a beat, switching topics to, "And now for some comic relief . . ."
*** ON NPR'S DIANE REHM SHOW, her pet media analysts mumbled
incoherently about the actual contents of the law and then joked about the possibility that the FBI might send suspects to Israel or Arab counties to be tortured. One declared that "there have to be vast compromises with the rights" of Americans. Rehm, for her part, saw nothing wrong with all this and referred to those opposing the law as
"civil liberties activists." Someone should explain to her that the correct term for people who support the U.S. Constitution is "American."
. . . FOX NEWS was even more casual about the bill promoting an upcoming report from the White House on legislation under which "your rights as a citizen will undergo a huge change" and then, without a beat, switching topics to, "And now for some comic relief . . ."
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