Why Does the Government Lie to Us? - an open thread
Sunday, September 4th, 2005We have seen from a distance how the broken promises the Government made to the people of Iraq has led to disaster at home and abroad. Now, we’ve seen a complete breakdown in democracy at our doorstep as the President has stared right into the camera and lied to the public and to the desperate and dying. “The Convention Center has been secured,” he said the other day, which apparently meant that FEMA had finally begun to assist those who were unknowingly (to them) trapped and dying there.
Welcome to those of you who have discovered this new blog. With your help, we can use this thread to digest recent events, lies and distortions, and how the media has acted to broadcast and proliferate these lies.
How can the powerful media and bureaucracy help to restore democracy to our vulnerable citizenry?
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September 4th, 2005 at 16:10 pm
Once again, on Saturday, Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff claimed that “government planners did not predict such a disaster could occur.”
This despite the N.O. Times-Picayune’s five day feature series in 2002, entitled “Washing Away” detailing precisely what New Orleans was in for in the event of a cat 4 or 5 hurricane.
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