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To: Joe S Pack who wrote (21163)	7/11/2002 2:50:27 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 74559

MINISTRY OF COOPERATIVE IDIOCY Hi Nat, Yes, the Iraq card. They sure are working that one to death. The antidote is the truth. Here's some excellent analysis of what is kept behind the curtain by the Wizards of the White Louse: Sandra Mackay: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein booknotes.org Watch the program, or read the transcript. What is being shoved out into the corporate media is horse apples.... Scowcroft on the real policy: Message 16641916 """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Yesterdays's Jim Hightower Comment is a classic on disinformation: jimhightower.com PLUCHINSKY THE AUTOCRATSKI 7/10/02 Time for another Gooberhead Award [Beanie-cap breakdown] –– presented periodically to those who have their tongues going 100 miles an hour . . . but who forgot to put their brains in gear. Today's Goober is Dennis Pluchinsky, who claims to be a "professional terrorism analyst." When I first read his op-ed piece in The Washington Post, I thought: Surely this is a satire, surely this guy really is George Carlin or some other outlandish comedian pulling our leg, calling himself Pluchinsky because his shtick is father out than Pluto. But, no –– he actually works at the state department as some sort of senior intelligence analyst! No wonder our country is in trouble around the world. The gist of Pluchinsky's commentary is that America's media outlets are guilty of treason because they have dared to report that our airports, power plants, trucks, and even cruise ships are vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Pluchinsky writes that such news stories are identifying potential targets for Osama bin Laden's terrorists and, therefore, that this type of reporting "must be stopped or censored." Earth to Pluchinsky: Osama's troops are fairly savvy zealots who figured out how to fly commercial airliners into big buildings, so they already seem to have a pretty clear grasp of our vulnerabilities. It's not like they're waiting for Wolf Blitzer to identify targets for them! But this state department whiz wants Bush and Congress to prohibit any media and any Internet sites from reporting even the most innocuous information that a terrorist might use –– like, say, a New York City map showing the location of the Statue of Liberty. He suggests that such media stores should be "filtered through a government agency," and that the new "Homeland Security" czar should give out gold stars to newspaper and web sites that toe the government line. He then declares: "A skeptic would call this censorship; a patriot would call-it cooperation." This is Jim Hightower saying . . . No, Pluchinsky, you Gooberhead, a patriot would call it stupid.