Saturday, August 26, 2006
Close Your Eyes
Plug Your Ears
A New York business man has been arrested for providing satellite access to Al Manar television, a station broadcasting since 1991. Its news programs show statements from Hezbollah. The US classifies that as a terrorist entity. The man now faces five years in prison for supporting terrorism.
There is no news of Iran making arrests for reading the New York Times. Mexico has yet to jail anyone for watching CNN's Lou Dobbs show. People can say "George Bush" in China.
Reporters Without Borders, considered by some a CIA front, regularly critiques those three nations for blocking access to information. There is little chance it will condemn the US for the same. That's the land of the free.
# posted by furtherleft @ 8/26/2006 11:28:00 AM
It's called censorship. In Apartheid South Africa you could be arrested for speaking about the 'wrong' subject to the 'wrong' person.
The irony there too was that the Apartheid regime's proported enemy was communist Russia where (we were told) you were not allowed to talk freely.
Same shit, different day.
The man is facing 5-10 years for broadcasting a TV station...would be nice if the constitution was still the law of the land, and people were still protected by the bill of rights.
"If you want to learn the truth, seek out those ideas that men are imprisoned for voicing."-unknown
