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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SeachRE who wrote (127145)	6/23/2008 11:53:52 AM
From: average joe	Respond to of 173976

UNITED IN FEAR “I am leading to the notion of social control, Peter. To the requirement of every sovereign state to exert control over the behavior of its citizens, to keep them orderly and reasonably docile. To keep them driving on the right side of the road-or the left as the case may be. To keep them paying taxes. And of course we know that social control is best managed through fear.” “Fear,” Evans said. “Exactly. For fifty years, Western nations had maintained their citizens in a state of perpetual fear. Fear of the other side. Fear of nuclear war. The communist menace. The Iron Curtain. The Evil Empire. And within the Communist countries, the same in reverse. Fear of us. Then, suddenly, in the fall of 1989, it was all finished. Gone, vanished. Over. The fall of the Berlin Wall created a vacuum of fear. Nature abhors a vacuum. Something had to fill it.” Evans frowned. “You’re saying the environmental crises took the place of the Cold War?” “That is what the evidence shows. Of course, now we have radical fundamentalism and post-9/11 terrorism to make us afraid, and those are certainly real reasons for fear, but that is not my point. My point is, there is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us. Before terrorism we feared the toxic environment. Before that we had the Communist menace. The point is, although the specific cause of our fear may change, we are never without the fear itself. Fear pervades society in its aspects. Perpetually” MICHAEL CRICHTON – STATE OF FEAR – PAGE 500

To: SeachRE who wrote (127145)	6/23/2008 2:39:05 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 173976

Chessani isn't waiting for apologies. His attorney, Brian Rooney, told a talk show that he and his client were looking into a lawsuit against Rep. Murtha and Time magazine reporter Tim McGurk for taking the words of Iraqi insurgents as gospel and as the basis for trumped-up charges. Haditha became an issue, and a crime scene, after McGurk's fallacious and dishonest March 27, 2006, story that the Marines were guilty of "massacring innocent civilians." The story was based on false evidence provided by a known insurgent propagandist. It took on added life after Murtha publicly said "there was no firefight" and the Marines at Haditha "killed innocent civilians in cold blood." Murtha said that their officers "covered it up" and the cover-up went "right up the chain of command." Murtha explained that his public charges were made after receiving information from the highest levels of the Marine Command. A motion to compel the deposition of Murtha was made by Chessani's defense team, but Murtha never was forced to answer the question of to whom he talked or whether he made the whole thing up. At the time, Chessani was commander of the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, one of the most decorated battalions in the nation's history. He was charged with "dereliction of duty" and "orders" violations for allegedly failing to properly report and investigate the incident. Also at the time, and based on battlefield information, Chessani felt there was no crime to investigate.