From: malcolm (malcolm@santiago.cl)
Date: Thu Apr 11 2002 - 17:30:51 MDT
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 06:50:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian D Williams <talon57@well.com>
Subject: POLITICS: Re: grim prospects
>From: Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com>
>Agreed. But this is not what we have been seeing this past week.
>The Israelis declared the city of Ramallah to be a closed military
>zone, and ordered all journalists to vacate the area. Reporters
>from various countries are reporting that they have been shot at,
>had stun grenades thrown at them, and even had tanks advance upon
>them, all without warning. Several journalists have been injured,
>and all say they were not given any prior warnings. The Israelis
>claim that the expulsion of journalists from the area was their
>prior warning, and that any journalists not obeying that order are
>now legitimate targets of the military.
>The U.S. military uses similar tactics, but they just arrest
>journalists, take them into custody, and confiscate their film.
>I don't know of any instances of the U.S. military attacking
>unarmed journalists without warning.
They were given plenty of warning, they were told deliberately not
to come, but they did anyway.
I was surfing through channels the other day when I stopped on
MSNBC, I watched how Ashleigh Banfield was explaining how even
though they had been told to stay away they were about to try to
get into the areas anyway.
They were sticking tape all over themselves and their vehicles
spelling out T.V. like it would somehow save them.
If I was a terrorist watching, I'd lean over to my men and say
" Get some tape..."
Brian
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Greetings from South America.
Dear Brian:
Following your reasoning, I guess suspicion would be a valid reason to shot
someone.
It may sound corky, but my country went through two decades of killing and
violence just because the state suspected you were a possible "terrorist";
so, as a result of what I experienced here, I don't think suspicion is a
valid basis to conduct any business. Not even war against terrorism.
By the way, the joke about the NY police, seems to fit perfectly to your
staement: "Shoot first, ask later".
Malcolm@Chile
Not a member... yet.
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