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No TV for bin Laden, But What About Web?

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Bush & freeness of speech
10/12/2001 4:45:20 AM
Posted By: josefponce@yahoo.com

The corporates in Washington or in power, don't seem to have a notion on the importance, much less the significance of the USA achievement citizen liberties, particularly the contributions of the freeness of speech to the development of the USA, singularly, the development of the Constitutions and Amendments.

They don't seem to have read, being raised in privilidged corporate home environments, materialy stuffed and inherited wealth. They have not struggled for economic justice or ecnomic equality.

They all seem from the same corporate mold, grab and keep it, if you have the might.

They have the might historically, but the needs of the masses are pressuring for changes in national and international foreign polices, a review of them and their political, economic and social inequality and resulting injustices.

Until the internet mechanisms of more recent distribution and access to info, begin to use the potential of the internet medium, not for the corporate interests alone of this Corporate/military/gov't campaign of "state terrorism and global terror."

There has to be a way of hearing the full text of t"he hunter and the hunted" the universal human concerns for a more equal, more just, political and economic order globally, and use the medium to coordinate and achieve more equality and justice

To shut down what the accused say of their perspective is just as meriting as seen the court evidence that Bush Administration have not presented any to Afghanistan. Just plain arrogance. No longer fit to rule to even suggest that.

Suspend the rules of Congress?

In as much as the alliance of corporates, gov't, military try to shut down the freeness of speech in the USA, their continued rule is more unfit for their ongoing governance.

Keep on talking digging up more facts on "officially USA sponsored and trained terrorism in the USA." By this and all predecessor administrations and agencies.

With the facts up front, juries, jurists and the people can make conclusions.

Journalists have an essential role not just to support the existing order, to vie for human wage survival. But have to learn to address the universal issues and complexities facing the existence of humanity and its struggle for a more economically, politically, and socially just distribution of the private appropriations.

My Granma Lala, about 90 yo, a Mexican woman part Taraumara Indian from Chihuahua Mexico before she died, killed as a result of a strong arm robbery on the streets of LA, by two young blacks on one of the day trips she would take every month to the bank for years:
"los gringos son como los perros, nortelanos; no comen, ni dejan comer."

That social injustice that two young black men had no other possible source of income other than as others said, "the old bitch would let go the purse."

Until the journalists in the USA understand how that unjust/unequal situation for young blacks is for not only millions in the USA, but billions globally. Afghanistan.

Then among those msot impoverished populations, bombing them.

Using with revenge, vengeance, vile hatred, all the might, energy, science and techonolgy, plus manpower that could be invested else where, like education, health care, etc. for the masses in the USA. Let alone the world. That is "war on poverty."

Jose Marti, who lived in the USA 1880/1895, observed about the USA that its leadership would be better off and the whole population would be better off as a nation, if it concentrated on developing internally its people and its regions. Be the Garden of Eden on Earth. Instead of the global gendermane, world police, the 3rd Reich or for that matter the Roman Empire.

Maybe more USA journalists need to read about the Universal ideas of those leaders in Latin American that have struggled to acertained the most advanced,civilized, peaceful and productive ways for masses of people, acting in the most civilized ways, to solve basic human problems of the populations with resources at hand.

The present tri/alliance, corporates, gov'ts, military will not permit it.

Check out the Center for Jose Marti studies

Fraternally,

Showing some responsibility
10/11/2001 2:33:11 PM
Posted By: JOHN HENSON, WKRM/WKOM

It's a shame that vernmen had to tell the networks what was right. Broadcasting bin Laden's dribbler, and that of his henchmen was not only wrong, it was helpful to the terrorists. Are we purveyors of poison, or trying to tell the story?

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