-Caveat Lector- TA DAH!!!!! A Media Lord has spoken!! ABC Thinks The UN Should Have a Voice In Setting US Policy ABC’s World News Tonight on Sunday and Monday night ignored a Sunday, June 27 front page New York Times story about how contrary to Clinton administration assertions they learned of Chinese espionage in 1995, not 1996. But Monday night ABC jumped on a story about guns played on the front page of the Monday Washington Post, even getting soundbites from the very same liberal activists quoted in the Post story. Under the heading of "Targeting Guns: Exporters to the U.S.," the June 28 Washington Post headline declared: "Selling in a Land of Opportunity: Foreign Firms Find a Big Market." Post reporter Sharon Walsh began: "As increasingly restrictive gun laws are enacted in major industrial countries, gun-makers around the globe are flocking to the biggest and least regulated gun market in the world -- the United States." Citing a United Nations study on how 29 nations have tightened gun laws in the past five years, Walsh used Tom Diaz of the Violence Policy Center and Wendy Cukier of the Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto, as her experts. Now check out how ABC picked up the Post story without any credit. World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings asserted: "The United Nations tells us that 29 countries have now tightened the rules on gun ownership so considerably that it is more difficult for the gun manufacturers to sell their product. Now none of those countries has a Second Amendment so that makes the United States an important market. Guns, like any other product, end up where they are welcomed." ABC News reporter/Washington Post reader Lisa Stark explained, as the Post did, how half of the guns sold in the U.S. come from companies owned overseas. After a soundbite from Diaz she noted how Smith & Wesson is owned by a British firm but their guns cannot be sold there and British "laws are so strict, the British Olympic shooting team, which uses guns like these, had to practice in France." Other foreign gun-makers she cited matched a chart in the Post: Glock of Austria, Browning of Belgium, Beretta of Italy and Taurus of Brazil. Wendy Cukier suggested that like other "dangerous commodities," such as cigarettes and leaded gasoline, producers must shift sales to where there is less regulation. Stark did allow a gun store owner to point out: "Just like the camera you’re using here, it’s made in another country. We’re in a world market today and there’s free enterprise." Stark then ruefully concluded: "And so far in this political season Congress sees no reason to change that, leaving gun makers and sellers a lucrative and legal U.S. market." --The Media Research Center's CyberAlert, June 29, 1999 For a selection of recent Outrages du Jour click here. http://www.nationalreview.com/outrage/outrage.html "What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty god! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!" --- Patrick Henry-March 1775 Bard Visit me at: The Center for Exposing Corruption in the Federal Government http://www.xld.com/public/center/center.htm Federal Government defined: ....a benefit/subsidy protection racket! DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
