The Unknown Candidate: Before You Bash, Get the Facts.

Friday, June 30, 2006

Before You Bash, Get the Facts.

If you haven't learned by now that you can't trust what BushCo says, I can only ask, "What planet have you been living on?"

Recent vicious attacks by the White House against the New York Times are characteristically not what they seem. Rather, they have an anti-democratic, Machiavellian goal: intimidation and control of the Fourth Estate.

Ironically, The NY Times was singled out despite the fact that they are the one newspaper arguably most responsible for helping to sell the Iraq war to the American people. Judith Miller, a NY Times reporter, essentially served as a mouthpiece for the propaganda and lies fed to her by the Bush Cabal, helping to convince Americans that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and posed an immediate threat to our national security.

The fact is that it was common knowledge that the U.S. was tracking the finances of terrorists, and the NY Times did not put our country in jeopardy by publishing the article on bank-tracking.

So, before any of you blindly and gleefully bash the NY Times for treason, educate yourself, and then ask yourself:

"What could be more treasonous than government intimidation of and attempts to control the free press?

What could be more treasonous than taking a country to war -- for the first time in our history, attacking a sovereign nation that posed no threat to us -- by manipulating intelligence and lying to the Amrican people?

What could be more treasonous than the executive branch of the government trampling on the Constitution and the checks and balances designed to protect our democracy by declaring themselves above the law and not subject to it?"

What could be more treasonous than defying American democratic values by condoning torture, thereby putting our own young people serving in the military around the world at grave risk for the same, barbaric, retaliatory treatment?

What could be more treasonous than to intentionally--and disingenuously--incite fear in the American people for the sole political purpose of increasing executive powers--at the expense of the freedoms and rights of the American people?