The London Police department is launching a new ad campaign to keep people frightened and submissive.
The campaign includes a bizarre poster which encourages people to view as a terrorist suspect anyone who looks closely at government surveillance cameras.
Here is the link the ad. sheet_road_cctv [[I could not figure out how to get this to open up on this page of the blog — If anyone has any suggestions, I’d be obliged..]
h/t boingboing
Yesterday, on the anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, there was an interesting selection of media coverage of Antiwar.com.
The long-established left-wing San Francisco newsweekly, the Bay Guardian, ran a nice piece about Antiwar.com on their Website (they will follow this with a longer piece in print next week).
The conservative magazine, The New American, ran part 1 of a lengthy interview with Antiwar.com founder Eric Garris. Today part 2 ran.
And, a bit more mainstream, the San Jose Mercury News featured an op-ed on the Iraq War anniversary by Antiwar.com executive editor Alexia Gilmore.
What do you expect from a site with contributors from Pat Buchanan to Daniel Ellsberg?
Sorry for the late notice, but Antiwar.com’s Justin Raimondo is speaking in Paris on Saturday, March 21.
He is a featured speaker at the conference on ”How To Reach Peace in the 21st Century,” sponsored by the College des Bernardins and co sponsored by the Sorbonne.
College des Bernardins, 21 Rue de Poissy, 75005 Paris, at 4:30pm.
Earlier this week, our webmaster reported on the now infamous State of Missouri Information Analysis Center missive, “The Modern Militia Movement.” Less jaded political activists reacted with the expected righteous indignation while others subtly exploited the report with the intent to whip supporters of causes as benign as medical marijuana and homeschooling into a frenzy.
Alas, you can’t fool KMOV St. Louis, Channel 4. They know an enemy of the state when they see one; one of the bumper stickers they prominently featured marking an American citizen as some sort of potential terrorist was from….Antiwar.com. Yes, no one is as dangerous to the state as an advocate for peace.
Former President George W. Bush announced in Calgary yesterday that he is planning to write a memoir “so when the history of this administration is written at least there’s an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened.”
Bush did not reveal if John Yoo would be the co-author.
Bush spoke to an “invited audience of Calgary businessmen,” according to a report in the Examiner.
The paper noted that “Bush was full of jokes throughout his speech.”
Since it was an “invited audience,” there were no awkward questions about torture or whether Bush expects to be indicted as a war criminal.
[h/t TAC]
To publicize his 20/20 special, “Bailouts and Bull,” ABC’s John Stossel went on Sean Hannity’s show that same evening (last night). There were two high (so to speak) points, one involving Stossel and one not.
In a discussion of the mess in Mexico, the following conversation occurred:
Stossel: That’s why we should legalize drugs. That’s our old argument. They’re killing each other because the stuff is illegal.
Hannity: Do you want to walk the same streets as people on crack and heroin?
Stossel: I assume I am. I’m living in New York city. They use it regardless of whether it’s legal or not.
Hannity: Every once in a while you just have to say “Checkmate. I lose.”
Note: I watch Hannity almost every night. This is the first time in a few years that I’ve ever seen him admit that he got bested.
Then Hannity went on to say that it’s people’s own responsibility. Stossel then pointed out that if that’s so, then people should be free to poison themselves. Hannity replied that they hurt other people by committing crime to buy the drugs. Stossel pointed out that the high price of drugs is due to the fact that they’re illegal.
Hannity then almost admitted that another of his pet views was wrong. He and liberal guest Julie Menin, of the Women’s Campaign Forum got into a discussion of waterboarding, which Hannity advocates.
Menin: Evidence has shown that those types of torture tactics [waterboarding] unfortunately do not work.
Hannity: Let me tell you something. If you dunk my head in the water, I’m going to tell you whatever I need to tell you to get–if it’s true–to get out of this.
You could almost see the “whoops” in Hannity’s eyes as he caught himself and added “if it’s true.” Hannity caught himself saying what I think he really thinks, which is what most of us think: we would say anything if doing so would stop someone from torturing us. But then he realized what he had said and so he added, “if it’s true.” If I were being tortured, I wouldn’t care whether what I said was true as long as it ended the torture.
BTW, I thought the Stossel show was one of his best. That’s saying a lot because many of his shows have been high-quality. My one objection was to the economist, whose face I didn’t recognize, who said that the United States will have hyperinflation like Germany’s in the 1920s. I hate it when people super-exaggerate to make a point.
