"GIVE ME THE F*****G KID OR I"LL SHOOT "
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Three hours into the coverage of this tragedy, the most nauseating moment was
that of Dan Rather's commentary over an interview with Marisleysis Gonzalez.
All that he could say, assuming we wanted his dubious wisdom, was that "there
seems to be a propaganda war," a "war of imagery" over this matter. And what
prompted this fatuous ass to say this? The presence of an Associated Press
photographer in the house, on the off chance of something happening. And the
fact of Marisleysis giving her interview while Janet "The Incinerator" Reno
was giving her press conference.
Rather opined about the AP photog's presence, somehow, being illegal. He was
twisting a case that recently reached the Supreme Court, which ruling held
that news media personnel who -accompanied a police crew- on a raid or arrest
were violating due process rights. Elian's Miami relatives had seen the twists
of the State-kiss-ass media too many times. They wanted someone there to
document repression first hand, so no one could make excuses. But nothing is
beyond bootlickers of the fascist State such as Dan Rather.
So he's put out. Too bad. This woman who -knows- repression first hand was
telling us that the jackbooted thugs were running around the house, pointing
guns and yelling "Give me the f*****g kid or I'll shoot" -- that omission of
syllables was hers, by the way.
Take a look, directly, at the image of terror:
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See whether Reno's first answer to a press question, that, well, golly gee
whilikers, "the gun was pointed off to the side and his finger was not on the
trigger," made a good goddamned bit of difference. It was pointed at the
fisherman, now a friend of the family, who was -holding- the boy.
"All this was done with as little violence as possible," quoth Clinton and
Juan Miguel and Castro mouthpiece Gregory Craig as I write this. Removal by
blackshirted thugs in the dead of night at machine-gun-point does not count, I
take it? Nor does trashing the rest of the house?
Negotiations continued, from several reports, on the phone throughout the
night. The family was put on hold. That was the moment that the marshals
knocked thrice on the door, didn't see it immediately open, and then rammed it
down. So much for "good faith."
Seeing so much of State repression, instead of their Saturday morning
cartoons, is at least teaching the nation's youth today about the real world
that they live in. Illusions may be ripped away. For a while. |
