--- Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > True, but in the 20th Century the practice became > more common over > time, not less so, and that makes the current lack > -- utter lack -- of > coverage fairly telling. Recall this is the same > administration that > deliberately cordons off any possible protesters > into "free speech > zones" so Bush doesn't have to see them.
Well, maybe it means we learn from experience. The "free speech zone" concept, by the way, is one most famously implemented by liberal universities, and put into place for the President under the Clinton Administration. There's nothing new about how the Bush Administration does it, particularly given the increased security threat it faces. > > It seems to me that the deliberate blind spots are > abundant. It makes > me suspicious. Do you think it's unreasonable of me > to be suspicious of > an administration that admittedly used underhanded > techniques (like the > Dems did) to try to get itself installed in DC, and > then dropped such a > wall of noncommunication about itself that virtually > everything it does > appears to be furtive dealings-in-the-dark? I mean, > the way they behave > *invites* suspicion. No, but there's a difference between suspicion and paranoia. It's _possible_ that aliens are using microwave radiation to control my thought processes and that I should wear a tinfoil hat to prevent it. It's just not _likely_. > I believe lots of people other than myself have > integrity; however, as > has been pointed out and documented more times than > should ever be > necessary to mention, Bush II is demonstrably an > administration that is > very low on credibility. Maybe to you. I would say that he has done no worse than most of his predecessors and better than his immediate predecessor. The liberal cocooning of people on this list never ceases to amuse me. > From Ashcroft gutting > Constitutional freedoms > to Rumsfeld and the AG scandal to Cheney and > Halliburton to missing > WMDs to fudged Nat Guard records, the history of > Bush II is littered > with ample cause to question the credibility of > every key player. In other words you've got: 1) A paranoid fantasy 2) The AG scandal which was revealed _by the Administration_, which, had it chosen to cover it up, probably still wouldn't have made the press 3) Lots of accusations on about the level of the black helicopters believed in by the militias 4) You mean the faked ones distributed by CBS News? Hmmm. Your case is not impressing me. > There was no coverup? There was a total lack of > mention of *anything* > going on in AG at *all*. What is that if not a > coverup? As you say it > took *insiders* to break the story -- certainly the > military was > carefully keeping news of its adventures there from > the media. Except, you know, the public reports made by the Pentagon. Which were the ones that alerted the press. That's some coverup - officially telling everyone in the world what you did. The details of this story have been gone over too many times on this list for me to repeat them. As Lois Bujold wonderfully wrote, "You can be _told_ the truth, but if you refuse to believe it, you'll never know it." > Perhaps you have a differing definition of coverup. > To me the term > means "Not telling what you're doing, particularly > if you know it's > shameful." That's right. A coverup would have been not telling people what happened as soon as it was discovered. No cover up is _telling people_ what happened as soon as it was discovered. The Administration _told people_. > I doubt that anything seriously like what was > reported actually > happened. In other words, you went on about stuff that you _didn't believe_ in order to attack the Bush Administration? You Dan Rather writing under a pseudonym, by any chance? ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
