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Sunday, July 24, 2005 |
RutlandHerald: "A Congressional candidate who wants to impeach President Bush insists he can win the Republican primary.
Dennis Morrisseau, 62, of West Pawlet, plans to seek the Republican nomination to run for U.S. House of Representatives.
A central part of his platform, Morrisseau said, will be bringing articles of impeachment against Bush.
Morrisseau said he considers himself more of a Republican than the president, and he thinks a lot of Vermont Republicans agree with him."
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TimesOnline: "At times of national emergency, the habit of the news media to drop a story or a lead in mid-air when it seems to be going nowhere unsettles the public. The media betray a sort of sheepish wish to 'move on' from an erroneous report, hoping that their audience will not notice. Rather than acknowledge this, they publish a new report, leaving us to compare it with what had previously been said - and draw our own conclusions. Or they start barking up a different tree, the inference being that the last tree may have been the wrong tree.
My purpose is more limited. To alert you to the enormous, insidious and mostly unconscious pressure that exists to talk up, rather than talk down, the efficacy of al-Qaeda. When all the pressures are to talk up a lethal characterisation of the forces at work, we need to be supercool in the way we look at these reports.
You have read much about the threat of one particular conspiracy. Here is another. There is an unwitting conspiracy between four separate powers to represent the worldwide al-Qaeda network as fiendishly clever, powerfully effective and deeply involved in the London bombings.
First, the news media.
Secondly, the Government.
Thirdly, the security services.
Finally, of course, the terrorist himself.
From a certain point of view, the journalist, the politician, the police chief and the terrorist can be seen as locked in a macabre waltz of the mind, no less distorting for being unconscious. We should not to join that dance."
The result of it all we saw past Friday when a man was shot by police.
TimesOnline: "Armed undercover police chased and shot dead a man directly linked to the London bombers' terror cell after he ran into a South London Underground station and tried to board a train."
Well, even the Times Online joined the dance apparently with this second article. The first one was right, though. When an innocent citizen is confronted with armed undercover agents, he may think they are terrorists and start running for his life.
12:25:03 PM
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