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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).
Found by Cinàedh.
Pedro,
It’s the ones who believe this nonsense about the “liberal media” who have drunk the Kool Aid.
You have to live in some alternative reality to believe the mainstream media is liberal because there is ample and constant evidence otherwise.
This blog story is just one example.
But it wasn’t blacked out of this page and others throughout the Internet. Now you understand why the newspapers are going under….they don’t deliver the news.
Can’t be cried out louder than this! The mainstream media are puppets for the Government Party. “Don’t see here, look over there…”
Fox News and other MSM missed this story. God damn socialists.
I noticed quite some time ago that the Headline NEws in the US show more of the Lohans and Hiltons than real news. Here (Germany) our news are IMPORTANT things from Germany and all over the world. And the news in the entertainment area are on different shows, but NOT in the Headline News section.
This was definitely worth for headline news…I think it’s about time that people go back on the streets for what they believe in. Same over here. We need to tell the people we voted for what to do…not the other way around!!!
Seems like there’s some Fox-news going on here!
“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”
It’s called having a bet each way. You meet these self interested parasitic chameleons every day in the public service.
#21 Gee, you’re right. We have a right-wing president, so the right-wing media is in cahoots with him. When will you finally vote Bush out?
Now now #10, quiet down. Logic, reason and common sense have no place here.
I think people are mostly ambivalent because conscription ended, being forced to act as cannon fodder will get people motivated.
#10
and those anti-war protests led the news every night…..when Bush was in office. They don’t want to hear about people protesting the Mighty O though
Chris Hedges was also at that assemblage. He mentioned it in reviewing his book/views “The Death of the Liberal Class” on Democracy Now last night. Shocking how stark/craven he makes the issue. Makes me sound puerile and lackadaisical–hah, hah.
The US is installing a “neo Feudalism” thru its tax, education, media, congress systems.
Not only is it “worse” than I have ever thought, it appears to be irreversable as well. From IF Stones “Manufacturing Consent” to the Quizzling Presidency of Obama–the liberal/middle class is being destroyed from the inside out.
This 20 minute talk was followed by some comedy relief with Naomi Wolfe accurately reviewing the Assange rape allegation and her all sex must be expressly voluntary advocate on the other side. Something to see.
This was then followed by local news regarding that Pedophile in Florida who got arrested for his “how to” book. Actually, everything the guy said I think is accurate and true. One of the few instances I think where FREE SPEECH should take second place to safety for our kiddies. Why? Because the kiddies cannot protect themselves. They are like Republican Voters in this respect: too stupid/uninformed/misinformed/too attracted to candy to act in their own self interests.
Now to find Hedges one and only commencement speech for which he quit the NY Times on the Dem Now website.
I may be just on the cusp of a majory political depression here. Its much worse than I thought. Democracy had a good run in the 20th Century. God Rest Democracy.
Hedges appearance is posted at Democracynow.org:
http://democracynow.org/2010/12/20/chris_hedges_obama_is_a_poster
I could not find his commencement speech on the website but found the short transcript here:
http://commondreams.org/headlines03/0520-13.htm
Gosh, pretty middle of the stream/reasonable speech. “Red Badge of Courage” and “When Johnny Comes Marching Home” are several times more horror inspiring.
Our culture is going backwards. Yes, feudal indeed. A new dark age of cultural values as we fight for the scraps left us.
The “Mainstream” Media – All the News we want you to know !!! Plenty of news about Korea, the next War – for the War Profiteers !!!
The entire left wing establishment has an interest in not making Obama look bad because in their minds any criticism of the administration enables the Republicans. Continuing the analogy, enabling the Republicans will somehow lead to the fall of Saigon which will then lead to the continued spread communism throughout the world.
As soon as Obama’s victory was apparent and more so post election, the protests started disappearing. The participation in war protests is down considerably locally. (I do not even remember the last one.) It is hard to say from my perch 2000 miles away but, I theorize that this is also the same reason the pot is still illegal in California.
Makes me sick how these quacks on both sides are more interested in defending their presidents and their police state than their country.
Not surprising. Back in the Summer of 2004, Vladmir Putin had a press conference explaining that Russian Intel had told the U.S. Iraq was planning to attack the U.S. “soon” back when we ever considered going into Iraq.
The newsworthy part was that this was coming out of Vladmir’s mouth seeing how the Russians were against us going into Iraq prior to his press release.
The news’ reaction? Fox covered it all day. CNN briefly mentioned it. For the remainder of CNN’s time and all the other networks, Bill Clinton’s new autobiography at the time was more newsworthy.
An anti-war protest against the White House is not in the interests of the Democratic Party, therefore the liberal media does not cover it. They get their talking points during daily morning calls from the White House. The biggest threat to Obama’s reelection is liberal estrangement due to not stopping the war effort. Highlighting protests only intensifies that. We won’t see any news campaigns about another 10 soldiers died today in the quagmire of Afghanistan.
Thanks for making this available.
Reality check:
During the Vietnam War era, there were war protesters chained to the White House fence all the time. I was in the Army, stationed not far from DC.
Basically, the protesters were ignored by the media and by the tourists, even during Watergate, because the hearings stole the limelight from the protesters.
This is America buddy, not Japan.
Take your peaceful protest and shove it.
Our editors know that we expect to see blood, guts and gore on our news.
If’n it ain’t shot up an’ bleedin’, it doan make da newz.