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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bill payne)
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<BIG><BIG><BIG><B><BIG>Nukes, Censorship, and the
Mindfuckers</BIG></B></BIG></BIG></BIG>
<P ALIGN=Left>
Payne visited the University of New Mexico's Zimmerman library on S 01/16/1999.
<BR>
<BR>
One of the books Payne wished to scan again was the
<B><A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0879320389/qid%3D916893061/002-6837427-8437061">Mindfuckers</A>;
a source book on the rise of acid fascism in America, including material
on Charles Manson, Mel Lyman, Victor Baranco, and their followers</B> by
David Felton. <BR>
<BR>
<B>Mindfuckers </B>deals with the US government's propaganda campaigns directed
against its own citizens.
<P ALIGN=Left>
The <B>Mindfuckers...</B>, while usually checked-out, is now listed on-line
as not returned and billed.
<HR>
<P ALIGN=Center>
<BIG><BIG><B>DECISION <BR>
TO USE THE ATOMIC<BR>
BOMB </B></BIG></BIG><BR>
<BIG><B>and the Architecture of an American Myth<BR>
<BR>
Gar Alperovitz </B></BIG>
<P ALIGN=Center>
with the assistance of Sanho Tree, Edward Rouse Winstead,<BR>
Kathryn C. Morris, David J. Williams, Leo C. Maley III,<BR>
Thad Williamson, and Miranda Grieder <BR>
<BR>
Alfred A. Knopf New York 1995
<P>
940.5425 ALOPEROVI
<HR>
<P>
<BASEFONT SIZE=3><B> <FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000"> <I>Like
traumatized people, we have been cut off from the knowledge of our past.
Like traumatized
people<A HREF="http://www.nmol.com/users/billp/purpose.htm#purpose">, we
need to understand the past </A>in order to reclaim the present and the
future. </I></FONT></B></BASEFONT>
<P>
<B>
-<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"> Judith
Lewis Herman,</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000"> <I>
Trauma </I>
</FONT> <FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"> <I>and </I> </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000">
<I>Recovery</I></FONT></B><FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000"><I>
<HR>
<BR>
</I></FONT>
<B>A PERSONAL NOTE</B><BR>
<BR>
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"> Among the many remaining
puzzles surrounding the decision to use the atomic bomb, perhaps the most
intriguing concern two of the nation's highest World War II military leaders.
A few years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed, <B>Admiral William
D. Leahy </B>went public with the following statement:</FONT><BR>
<DL>
<DT>
It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were
already defeated and ready to surrender.<BR>
<BR>
My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical
standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make
war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.
</DL>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"> Leahy was not what one might
call a typical critic of American policy. Not only had the five-star admiral
presided over the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff (and the Combined American-British
Chiefs of Staff), but he had simultaneously been chief of staff to the
commander-in-chief of the army and navy, serving Roosevelt in that capacity
from 1942 to 1945 and Truman from 1945 to 1949. Moreover, he was a good friend
of Truman's and the two men respected and liked each other; his public criticism
of the Hiroshima decision was hardly personal.</FONT>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
We can imagine what it would mean today if General Cohn Powell were to go
public with a similar critique, say, of the massive bombings he presided
over as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the 1991 Persian Gulf
War - and on decisions made by his friend President George Bush.
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
A similar puzzle concerns <B>Dwight D. Eisenhower</B>, the triumphant Supreme
Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force who directed British and American
operations against Hitler - and also, subsequently, of course, president
of the United States. In the midst of the Cold War - shortly after his famous
Farewell Address criticising the "military-industrial complex" - Eisenhower
also went public with a statement about the Hiroshima
decision.<BASEFONT SIZE=3> <FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000">
Recalling the 1945 moment when Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson in formed
him the atomic bomb would be used against Japanese cities, Eisenhower
stated:</FONT></BASEFONT><BR>
<DL>
<DT>
During his recitation of the relevant facts, I had been conscious of a feeling
of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis
of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was
completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should
avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was,
I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was
my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender
with a minimum loss of "face." <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000">
. . </FONT> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000"> .3</FONT>
</DL>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000">Something clearly had caused
Leahy and Eisenhower to break the unwritten rule that requires high officials
to maintain a discreet silence in connection with controversial matters about
which they have special knowledge. But as we shall see, Leahy and Eisenhower
were not the only military figures who broke the rule. Moreover, less than
a year after the bombings an extensive official study by the U.S. Strategic
Bombing Survey published its conclusion that Japan would likely have surrendered
in 1945 without atomic bombing, without a Soviet declaration of war, and
without an American invasion.</FONT>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
Again, it is not only the substance of the conclusion reached by this official
body, but the fact that it was made public and received wide publicity, which
forces itself into awareness, now, nearly fifty years after the fact. ...
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000"><I>
<HR>
<BR>
</I></FONT>[T]hen, on August 3, an explosive piece of reporting, John Hersey's
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000"> <I><B>Hiroshima</B> </I> </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"> was published as an entire
issue of <I>The New Yorker. </I>Hersey's moving description of the human
consequences of the destruction of Hiroshima shifted the atomic bomb story
away from such abstractions as "mushroom" clouds. "For perhaps the first
time since Pearl Harbor," as Michael I. Yavenitti notes, "thousands of Americans
confronted Japanese who were ordinary human beings </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Xerox Sans Serif Wide" COLOR="#000000">
<B>42</B></FONT><FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"> Hersey told
the stories of six survivors of the Hiroshima bombing, recounting their
experiences - both bizarre and mundane - in the initial moments and days
following the attack. A representative passage catches the horror of Hersey's
report:</FONT>
<DL>
<DT>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
<BR>
Mr Tanimoto found about twenty men and women on the sandspit. He drove the
boat onto the bank and urged them to get aboard, They did not move and he
realized that they were too weak to lift themselves. He reached down and
took a woman by the hands, but her skin slipped off<BASEFONT SIZE=3>
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"> in huge, glovelike pieces.
He was so sickened by this that he had to sit down for a moment. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000"> - - -</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"> He had to keep consciously
repeating to himself, "These are human beings."</FONT></BASEFONT>
</DL>
<P>
Americans were clearly more ready for some human sense of what the bomb signified
than the polls seemed to suggest. The newsstand issue of <I>The New Yorker
</I>quickly sold out and requests for thousands of reprints poured into the
magazine's offices. Many newspapers carried the thirty-thousand- word essay
in its entirety, and in early September ABC radio broadcast the full text
in four half-hour commercial-free readings. By early fall the article had
been republished in book form and the Book-of-the-Month Club distributed
hundreds of thousands of free copies to its members.
<P>
On September 9. another military voice was added to the arguments of the
air force leaders and the Strategic Bombing Survey. <B>Admiral William F.
Halsey</B>, commander of the Third Fleet, was publicly quoted as stating
his view, as we have seen. that the atomic bomb was used because the scientists
had a "toy and <BIG><B>they</B></BIG> wanted to try it out. " The first atomic
bomb was an unnecessary experiment .<FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000">.
. </FONT> <FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"> It was a
mistake to ever drop it."
...</FONT><FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000"> <BR>
<BR>
<HR>
<BR>
<B>Admiral William D Leahy</B></FONT><B> </B>
<P>
<BASEFONT SIZE=3><FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000">[L]eahy's
secretary, Dorothy Ringquist, remembered vividly that the day Hiroshima was
bombed he said: "Dorothy, we will regret this day. The United States will
suffer, for war is not to be waged on women and children." And in </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"> 1949, </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"> presidential biographer
Jonathan Daniels recorded that Leahy complained bitterly: "Truman told me
it was agreed that they would use it, after military men's statements that
it would save many, many American lives by shortening the war, only to hit
military objectives."</FONT></BASEFONT><BR>
<DL>
<DT>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
Of course, then <BIG><B>they </B></BIG>went ahead and killed as many women
and children as <BIG><B>they </B></BIG>could which was just what
<BIG><B>they</B></BIG> wanted all the time. 24
</DL>
<P ALIGN=Left>
Leahy's disgust at the idea of attacking "women and children" is consistently
stated in virtually every report we have of his attitude. It is also worth
noting that he was a friend of Truman's - and continued to be regarded as
such by the president. Cabell Phillips has observed that Leahy was one of
the two advisers (along with Marshall) whom Truman "revered almost without
limits. <FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000">In his memoirs,
the president writes that "he typified the Navy at its</FONT> best..."
<FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000"> </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"> </FONT>
<P ALIGN=Left>
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000">The memoirs in which Leahy
characterizes the use of the atomic bomb as "barbarous" contain an introductory
note by Truman praising his "long and brilliant career."
</FONT> The remarkable thing is not simply that Leahy had very
strong feelings about the issue, but that he put his views forward so forcefully
and publicly. ...
<P ALIGN=Left>
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000">
<HR>
<BR>
<B><BIG><BIG>
<BIG> Getting Nuked</BIG></BIG> </BIG></B></FONT>
<P ALIGN=Left>
<IMG SRC="nukem.gif" WIDTH="101" HEIGHT="110" ALT="Let's settle this nsa mess"
ALIGN="Left"><BR>
[<BASEFONT SIZE=3> <FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"> T]he
question of whether or not the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were
legal has been raised off and on over the passing years. This especially
applies to Nagasaki. Since before the bombings Japan was already preparing
to surrender, many feel the destruction of Hiroshima was more than enough
to convince Japan to the immediate and unconditional surrender the Allies
were seeking. So was the destruction of Nagasaki really
necessary?</FONT></BASEFONT>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
It's estimated 100,000 people died at Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Seventy-five
hours later, another 74,000 were killed at Nagasaki. But these figures include
only those who perished in the initial blasts. Many more people died soon
afterward from radiation sickness, and others would die years later from
leukemia, pernicious anemia, and other radiation-related diseases. Current
estimates calculate the total number of deaths so far from the two blasts
at more than 340,000 people.<I></I>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
<I>
"This is the greatest thing in history!"</I><BR>
<BR>
- <I>President Harry Truman
on receiving news that the nuclear bomb had successfully<BR>
exploded over
Hiroshima</I>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"> Dr. Tatsuichiro Akizuki
was working in a Nagasaki hospital some two miles from ground zero when the
bomb hit. He later described what he witnessed in his book </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"> <I>Nagasaki </I> </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000"> <I>1945 </I> </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"> (1981), saying:</FONT><BR>
<DL>
<DT>
Out in the yard, brown-colored smoke or dust cleared little by little. I
saw figures running. Then, looking to the southwest, I was stunned. The sky
was as dark as pitch, covered with dense clouds of smoke; under that blackness,
over the earth, hung a yellow-brown fog. Gradually the veiled ground became
visible, and the view beyond rooted me to the spot with horror. All the buildings
I could see were on fire. <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000"> . .
. </FONT> <FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"> To say everything
burned is not enough. It seemed as if the earth itself emitted fire and smoke,
flames that writhed up and erupted from underground. The sky was dark, the
ground was scarlet, and in between hung clouds of yellowish smoke. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000"> . . . </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"> It seemed like the end of
the world.</FONT>
</DL>
<P>
Dr. Akizuki set about getting those who were still alive out of the hospital
because the roof was on fire. While the three-story building was still standing,
some were trapped under fallen beams and rubble inside.
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
Soon victims burned by the flash began stumbling onto the hospital grounds.
Dr. Akizuki said,<BASEFONT SIZE=3>
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"> "Half-naked or stark naked,
they walked with strange, slow steps, groaning from deep inside themselves
as if they had traveled from the depths of hell. They looked whitish; their
faces were like masks." They reeled about holding their heads with their
hands. Their clothes had been burned off them in the flash and they were
all asking for water because their throats had been singed. Temperatures
for a mile around the epicenter of the blast had instantly shot up to between
1,0000F and 6,0000F.</FONT></BASEFONT>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
Within a few hours, victims of a different appearance began to arrive at
the hospital. "The crowd of ghosts which had looked whitish in the morning
were now burned black. Their hair was burnt; their skin, which was charred
and blackened, blistered and peeled." And the severity of the victims' injuries
kept increasing. Those closer to the blast that weren't vaporized or instantly
killed had their facial features burned off, their eyes melted in their sockets,
and the patterns of their clothing were tattooed on their flesh.
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
There wasn't much the doctor could do for the people who came to the hospital
since the wind from the blast that had swept through the building had carried
off the instruments and medications.
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
Right after the bombing of Hiroshima, garbled reports of the devastation
spread across Japan. The Japanese Cabinet tried to find out what had happened.
Most didn't believe the amazing stories they were hearing. American Army
Chief-of-Staff General George C. Marshall later said, "What we did not take
into account was that the destruction would be so complete that
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"> it </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"> would be an appreciable
time before the actual facts of the case would get to
Tokyo."</FONT><BASEFONT SIZE=3>
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"> </FONT></BASEFONT>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
<BASEFONT SIZE=3><FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000">Actually,
the decision to drop the second bomb had essentially been made already. As
early as July 16, Major General Leslie Groves, commander of the Manhattan
Project, was convinced it was necessary to drop two bombs - one to demonstrate
the bomb's tremendous destructive power and the second to prove that we had
more than one bomb. Groves and the civilian leaders of the Manhattan Project
had convinced Truman that two Japanese cities would have to be wiped out
in order to end the war. Nagasaki was chosen over the other two potential
targets of Kokura and Niigata.</FONT></BASEFONT>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
Five days after Nagasaki was bombed, Japan submitted to the unconditional
surrender that America was insisting on. America's conventional bombing of
Japan continued right up until surrender was finalized, killing more than
15,000 people after the Nagasaki bombing.
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"> <I>
"We have grasped the mystery of the atom
and rejected the Sermon on the Mount."</I></FONT>
<P>
<I>- General
Omar Bradley, 1948</I> ...
<P>
<A HREF="http://www.thegrid.net/fern.canyon/weird/contents.htm">Wierd History
101</A> by John Richard Stephens
<P>
<HR>
<BR>
<BIG><BIG>
Who are <B>they?</B></BIG></BIG>
<P ALIGN=Left>
Halsey and Leahy refer to <BIG><B>they.<BR>
<BR>
They</B></BIG> are also known as <BIG><B>the hidden government</B></BIG>.
The <B><BIG>powers that be</BIG></B>.<BIG><B> </B></BIG>
<P ALIGN=Left>
<BIG><B>They</B></BIG> really run the United States of America.
<P ALIGN=Left>
<BIG><B>They</B></BIG> have <B>Top Secret/SCI </B>clearances.
<BIG><B>They</B></BIG> think <BIG><B>they</B></BIG> know more than <B>we</B>
do.
<P ALIGN=Left>
Therefore <BIG><B>they</B></BIG> do what <BIG><B>they</B></BIG> do because,
<BIG><B>they</B></BIG> know the <U>real story</U>.
<P ALIGN=Left>
<B>We</B> are supposed to trust them.
<P ALIGN=Left>
Then came Vietnam. And books like <I>Hiroshima </I>and <I>Decision
to use the Atomic Bomb</I>.
<P ALIGN=Left>
<BIG><B>They</B></BIG> have no qualms about killing people.
<BIG><B>They</B></BIG> even kill their own citizens. More than 58,000<BR>
in Vietnam.
<P ALIGN=Left>
<BIG><B>They</B></BIG> are <B>usually </B>unaccountable.
<P ALIGN=Left>
But times and technology have changed. <B></B>
<P ALIGN=Left>
Now <B>we</B> communicate on Internet.
<P ALIGN=Left>
<B><BIG>We</BIG></B> have hardware and software technology greater than what
their experts have - at a fraction of their cost.
<P ALIGN=Left>
<B>They</B> are in <B><U>BIG TROUBLE</U></B>.
<P ALIGN=Left>
<HR>
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"><BR>
<BASEFONT SIZE=3><FONT SIZE=5 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"><B>
"AN EXACT DESCRIPTION"</B></FONT></BASEFONT></FONT>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
<B><FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000"> <I>There was no mention of
post war relations with the Soviets as a consideration in the calculations
and deliberations preceding the bomb use: no mention of the Strategic Bombing
Surveys claim that Japan would have surrendered even with out the bomb or
an invasion; no explicit mention </I> </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000"> <I>of </I> </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000"> <I>the arguments raised against
the decision: only the barest grazing of the issue of why Truman rejected
proposals to modify unconditional surrender so as to leave the Emperor on
his throne....</I></FONT> </B><BR>
<BR>
- James C.
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"> Hershberg, </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000"> <I>James B. Conant</I> </FONT>
<BR>
<BR>
<HR>
<BR>
<B>CENSORSHIP AND SECRECY:</B> <B>RULES AND EXCEPTIONS
</B>
<P ALIGN=Left>
<DL>
<DT>
<P ALIGN=Left>
The records of this period are not normally available to
non-governmental researchers. Exceptions to the rule will be limited in general
to mature scholars undertaking research regarded by the Department as desirable
in the national interest.<BR>
<BR>
- Regulation Concerning Non-Official Research in the Unpublished Records
of the Department of State" January 1951
</DL>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
Actions taken by American officials thousands of miles away from Washington
also helped control important aspects of the atomic bomb story were managed.
In Japan, American censorship picked up where Japanese wartime controls left
off. On September 18,
1945<FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"><B>, </B> </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"> a restrictive Press Code
established guidelines which included such extremely general rules as: Nothing
shall be printed which might, directly or by inference, disturb public
tranquility' and 'There shall be no false or destructive criticism of the
Allied Powers."</FONT>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
The Japanese press was required to walk a tightrope. On the one hand, "Minor
details of any news story must not be overemphasized to stress or develop
any propaganda line." On the other, "No news story shall be distorted by
the omission of pertinent facts or details." The Civil Censorship Division
of the Occupation followed up by decreeing that the fact of censorship itself
was to be censored. The Division prohibited "any traces, such as blank spaces,
dots, circles, or blacked-out portions, that would imply censorship deletions,"
notes one scholar, Monica Braw.<SUP>3</SUP>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
Two of the earliest instances of direct censorship - a twenty-four-hour
ban on the Domei news agency and a two-day suspension of one of Japan's largest
newspapers, <I>Asahi Shinbun</I> - were occasioned by coverage of the
Hiro<BASEFONT SIZE=3>shima<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000">
</FONT> <FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"> bombing: A Domei
report had stated that "Japan might have won the war but </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Times Roman" COLOR="#000000"> for the atomic bomb, a weapon
too terrible to face and one which only barbarians would use." The offending
article in <I>Asahi Shinbun </I>had stated that so long as the United States
advocates 'might is right,' it can not deny that the use of the atomic bomb
and the killing </FONT> of innocent people is a violation of international
law and a war crime "worse than an attack on a hospital ship or the use of
poison gas" At his time, too, George Weller of the Chicago Daily News
filed a series of stories on hospital patients in Nagasaki - but made the
mistake of his only copies to Tokyo for clearance by US. officials. The stories
were neither approved nor returned. </BASEFONT>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
<BASEFONT SIZE=3> As the broad structure of censorship took hold, other
materials - including books, textbooks, motion pictures, and even private
- were put under controls. the summer of 1946 the Civil Censorship
Detachment employed over 8,700 people and was examining thousands of newspaper
and magazine issues. Robert Manoff recalls that one writer whose
work on Hiroshima ran afoul of the censors - Sadako Kudhara - was especially
disturbed that "the American democrats" had developed a more sophisticated
censorship system "than had the Japanese militarists they replaced."</BASEFONT>
... <FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000"> <BR>
<BR>
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</FONT><BASEFONT SIZE=3><FONT SIZE=7 FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000"><B>Government
by the Press?<BR>
</B> </FONT> <FONT SIZE=5 FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000"> lf you <I>want news
untarnished by </I>the views <I>of the <BR>
popular press, then try the </I>web</FONT></BASEFONT>
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[W]<BASEFONT SIZE=4><FONT SIZE=3FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000">e are living
in a time where the tail does "wag the the dog." Where a Sudanese medicine
factory transmografies into a chemical weapons plant convenient for some
new front-page news. Where students in the Sudan protesting that they don't
want to be killed in "Monica's War" somehow misses making the U.S. news.
Where so-called anti-terrorist strikes don't strike anywhere near the terrorists
or their cities. Well, who really cares - they're just Muslims,
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Maybe a public informed by alternative Web sources can kill the dog
being wagged. Might it be that our grandchildren, will say of this time,
"The browser was mightier spin doctor."?
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Paul Cassel's<BR>
e-mail address<BR>
pcassel@rt66.com
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<FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000">Computer Scene September 1998,
Albuquerque, NM</FONT>
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<BIG><BIG><B>Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Censorship</B></BIG></BIG>
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10/6/95 [890076] <A HREF="http://jya.com/whp-10usca.htm">NOTE: THIS ENTIRE
CASE IS SEALED</A>. Terminated on the Merits after Submission Without
Oral Hearing; Judgment Affirmed; Written, Signed, Unpublished. Moore,
authoring judge; Barrett; Weis. [94-2205] (pdw)
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<BIG><B>They</B></BIG> are giving
<A HREF="http://www.jya.com/arm061298.htm">Morales</A> and Payne trouble.
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