Senators introduce bill to block military propaganda campaigns.
By on Jun 9th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Senators introduce bill to block military propaganda campaigns.
The Crypt reports that Sens. John F. Kerry (D-MA), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Byron Dorgan (D-ND), and Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) introduced legislation today “to prohibit the Defense Department from using money for ‘propaganda.’” The bill would also “require the DoD inspector general and the Government Accountability Office to deliver related reports to Congress within 90 days.” The legislation is a response to the secret Pentagon propaganda program revealed in April by the New York Times.
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I think we can expect the complicit press to ignore this just like they did the original story. But I remain ever hopeful they won’t….
June 9th, 2008 at 9:12 pmIs a bill necessary? It’s like introducing a bill to stop the U.S. from becoming the U.S.S.R – really weird.
June 9th, 2008 at 9:27 pmDAMN! All of a sudden there seems to be (a little) light at the end of the tunnel.
June 9th, 2008 at 9:36 pm7pm Pacific time 6/9/08 Dennis Kucinich reading Articles of Impeachment LIVE on CSPAN1
June 9th, 2008 at 10:03 pmIt’s not already illegal?
June 9th, 2008 at 10:40 pmIt’s pretty sad that a bill has to be introduced to prevent something that’s already illegal. It’s like you have to hit them over the head twice before they get it, if then.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
June 9th, 2008 at 10:59 pmTranslation:
June 10th, 2008 at 12:14 amWe know what you did and that you should be hung.
But hey, it’s okay, we’ll let you slide, just don’t do it again, people are watching.
O/T, but I just discovered a lucid explanation about why we are suffering from such high oil and gasoline prices in the last several years: corporate speculation on electronic oil futures markets in New York (NYmwx), London (ICEfutures) and Dubai (Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME). See the web site: http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/engdahl/2008/0502.html for all the depressing details. It seems that in Jan. 2006, the Bush Administration dropped the ball on regulating oil futures trading in a computerized system, and since then, large banks, pension funds and other players have been making billions of dollars in speculative trading of computerized oil futures contracts. All of these corporate profits are coming right out of our pockets (surprise…).
The home page is http://www.financialsense.com, the author is F. William Engdahl and the article is PERHAPS 60% OF TODAY’S OIL
PRICE IS PURE SPECULATION, written 2 May 2008
This barebones summary should be passed on to researchers that can digest the whole article and then explain it to Congressmen and Senators (Obama?) and demand that the Bush Administration institute serious regulation and end this absurd ripoff of the world’s drivers…
June 10th, 2008 at 12:20 amOne cannot help but wonder how funds not specifically authorized by Congress were used for such a program in the first place and if that use were, indeed, legal!
June 10th, 2008 at 7:08 amNews of Pentagon illegally propagandizing the people of the US has NOT EVEN BEEN PRINTED YET in our local “newspaper,” Florida Today. Of course, this area IS the Valley of the War Profiteers and the Old Generals’ Home.
June 10th, 2008 at 7:45 amI coulda sworn there was already a law on the books prohibiting this type of shit.
June 10th, 2008 at 8:31 amIt just hasn’t made it into the Bush library yet…
June 10th, 2008 at 8:39 amIt already is illegal:
Even though Bush did (illegitimately and unlawfully) negate legislation passed during his tyrannical rule, there were no such signing statements on the laws he violated (that were already on the books).
The US Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (Public Law 402): …The act prohibits the Executive Branch from distributing propaganda at home… (Wikipedia)
This obfuscation technique, of passing Bills criminalizing behaviors already labeled criminal by existing statutes, has been a favorite of the criminal illegitimate Bush Administration. They have used it on several occasions.
The now highly partisan stable of judges have made rulings citing that current versions of the laws had not been passed at the time of the offense by government officials even though there actions were already criminal under existing statutes.
This has also happened at the state level. Remember the charges against Delay (R,TX) that were thrown out by a judge citing this sort of garbage. That is, Delay knowingly and willfully violated criminal statutes, but a later additional statute labeling his actions as criminal had not been passed at the time of his crimes.
The list is long, but the most egregious example was the legislation making torture illegal even though there were US statutes, as well as international laws that the US was signatory to, already on the books.
Peace, JK
June 11th, 2008 at 4:23 pm