Diegetics

Many thanks to my ol' pal John C. Dvorak, I don't know where I'd get this sort of thing, except for his blog.

There was a black-out and a white-out Thursday and Friday as over a hundred US veterans opposed to US wars in Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world, and their civilian supporters, chained and tied themselves to the White House fence during an early snowstorm to say enough is enough.

Washington Police arrested 135 of the protesters, in what is being called the largest mass detention in recent years. Among those arrested were Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst who used to provide the president’s daily briefings, Daniel Ellsberg, who released the government’s Pentagon Papers during the Nixon administration, and Chris Hedges, former war correspondent for the New York Times.

No major US news media reported on the demonstration or the arrests. It was blacked out of the New York Times, blacked out of the Philadelphia Inquirer, blacked out in the Los Angeles Times, blacked out of the Wall Street Journal, and even blacked out of the capital’s local daily, the Washington Post, which apparently didn't even think it was a local story worth publishing an article about (they simply ran a photo of Ellsberg with a short caption).

http://goo.gl/hC83q

Unreal.

What country is this, again ?

No, that's what I meant. The powerful will play their games, you can bet on it. This is why conservatives don't trust the government. I just want to know what happened to the watchdogs. The mass media, the government media , needs to disappear. It's depressing.

Do you people realize that eventually this will have to be solved in the good old way... [I'm not saying which way in order not to get Tinker in trouble...]

Good thing you're not Asian!

How do you know that secretly I'm not?

That's classified.

"Damnit I'm a man." -- Bob Seger

I had been toying for a while with the idea of applying for a visiting professor status with an American university, and spend one or two semesters over there. Present developments have however put an end to such an idea, as I would absolutely refuse to live in a country where human rights may be violated at any moment. As a professor in political science I would make sure my students would hear my very strong views on the matter, and that would definitely attract Big Brother's attention. I'm too old to be indefinitely detained, even if that would occur in a certain semi-tropical island...