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[theweaselking]

Fox News Throughout History:




A case study in the necessity of strong environmental legislation to restrain corporations: The Aamjiwnaang First Nation Reserve, where, due to unchecked chemical contamination, girls now outnumber boys by 2-1

Cognitive Dissonance in action:
Exhibit A:
Dick Cheney suggested that the September 11 attacks on the United States could have been averted, if the government had the power to monitor electronic communications inside the country.
Exhibit B:
Three years after the Sept. 11 attacks, more than 120,000 hours of potentially valuable terrorism-related recordings have not yet been translated by linguists at the FBI, and computer problems may have led the bureau to systematically erase some Qaida recordings
Uh-huh. You need pure fascist Big Brother domestic spying to keep people safe from the "Terrists", right, that's why you don't bother actually listening to the stuff that isn't in English.

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[kali-kali.livejournal.com]

Three years after the Sept. 11 attacks, more than 120,000 hours of potentially valuable terrorism-related recordings have not yet been translated by linguists at the FBI, and computer problems may have led the bureau to systematically erase some Qaida recordings
Uh-huh. You need pure fascist Big Brother domestic spying to keep people safe from the "Terrists", right, that's why you don't bother actually listening to the stuff that isn't in English.

Well, you know why that is, right? To the US government, anyone who speaks Arabic or other Middle Eastern languages would be considered to be suspicious and a security risk to allow near such sensitive information.