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Sep. 14th, 2005 11:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingUS Army 82nd Airborne: "No photos, no stories". Reporters in New Orleans are being followed by armed troops and told they cannot take pictures or write about what they see, or they will be forcibly stopped.
Yes, this *is* after the court ordered the government to stop threatening and censoring the press. The court doesn't have guns, and hence their silly little "rules" and "laws" are recommendations at best, to the Army.
Doctors working in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans killed critically ill patients rather than leaving them to die in agony as they evacuated hospitals. Senior doctors took the harrowing decision to give massive overdoses of morphine to those they believed could not make it out alive.
The US Department Of Education is petitioning congress to remove the right to a public education from homeless children.
A study earlier this year by a group of scholars called the OpenNet Initiative revealed what no one had thought possible: that the Chinese government is succeeding in censoring the Net.
Not terribly surprising when *they own all the connections*, says I, but I'm just a networking geek, not an "information wants to be free" and "the internet can see through any wall" wonk.
Maine bigots realise that bigotry is unpleasant and unpopular - and so now want to put a happier, friendlier face on bigotry, to make it more attractive.
The Revealer makes the shocking revelation that the uneducated and purposefully ignorant don't like science. Shocking, I say.
Republican pro-file-sharing blogger to run for Senate against Utah native Orrin Hatch (R-Disney)
Yes, this *is* after the court ordered the government to stop threatening and censoring the press. The court doesn't have guns, and hence their silly little "rules" and "laws" are recommendations at best, to the Army.
Doctors working in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans killed critically ill patients rather than leaving them to die in agony as they evacuated hospitals. Senior doctors took the harrowing decision to give massive overdoses of morphine to those they believed could not make it out alive.
The US Department Of Education is petitioning congress to remove the right to a public education from homeless children.
A study earlier this year by a group of scholars called the OpenNet Initiative revealed what no one had thought possible: that the Chinese government is succeeding in censoring the Net.
Not terribly surprising when *they own all the connections*, says I, but I'm just a networking geek, not an "information wants to be free" and "the internet can see through any wall" wonk.
Maine bigots realise that bigotry is unpleasant and unpopular - and so now want to put a happier, friendlier face on bigotry, to make it more attractive.
The Revealer makes the shocking revelation that the uneducated and purposefully ignorant don't like science. Shocking, I say.
Republican pro-file-sharing blogger to run for Senate against Utah native Orrin Hatch (R-Disney)
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Date: 2005-09-14 06:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-14 06:32 pm (UTC)The Dispatch this morning had a front-page picture of an elderly man being carried out of his house by emergency workers with only a hand towel covering his genitalia. I know that I, personally, would not want to have such a picture taken of me or published.
I'm giving this one a "pass," although, as I said, the tone and words of the Army's "warnings" are despicable.
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Date: 2005-09-14 08:02 pm (UTC)I have to thank you, though, for putting the bit about "Orrin Hatch, R-Disney" at the end. That cracked me up and I can use the laugh.