From another forum. With permission.
R.I.P. Gary Webb..also, Bushes greet the moonsterites
Gary Webb who uncovered the ties between the CIA-Contras and Crack Cocaine running in the USA, died last Friday of an apparent suicide. Robert Parry told the story in one heck of an article which is a shorter version the Contra/drug story and our media's ineptness and blatant dishonesty.
Here's Democracy Now's interview with Parry and some of DN's interview with Webb in 1998.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/13/1457240
Gary Webb, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who wrote a series of stories linking the CIA to crack cocaine trafficking in Los Angeles, is dead at age 49. We hear an 1998 interview with Gary Webb on Democracy Now! and we speak with his colleague, veteran investigative journalist Robert Parry.
More on Webb from DN.
http://www.democracynow.org/search.pl?query=gary+webb
Here's Parry's must read summary of this troubling tale.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/121304.html
In 1996, journalist Gary Webb wrote a series of articles that forced a long-overdue investigation of a very dark chapter of recent U.S. foreign policy – the Reagan-Bush administration’s protection of cocaine traffickers who operated under the cover of the Nicaraguan contra war in the 1980s.
For his brave reporting at the San Jose Mercury News, Webb paid a high price. He was attacked by journalistic colleagues at the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the American Journalism Review and even the Nation magazine. Under this media pressure, his editor Jerry Ceppos sold out the story and demoted Webb, causing him to quit the Mercury News. Even Webb’s marriage broke up. .....
Counterattack
When black leaders began demanding a full investigation of these charges, the Washington media joined the political Establishment in circling the wagons. It fell to Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s right-wing Washington Times to begin the counterattack against Webb’s series. The Washington Times turned to some former CIA officials, who participated in the contra war, to refute the drug charges.
But – in a pattern that would repeat itself on other issues in the following years – the Washington Post and other mainstream newspapers quickly lined up behind the conservative news media. On Oct. 4, 1996, the Washington Post published a front-page article knocking down Webb’s story.
The Post’s approach was twofold: first, it presented the contra-cocaine allegations as old news – “even CIA personnel testified to Congress they knew that those covert operations involved drug traffickers,” the Post reported – and second, the Post minimized the importance of the one contra smuggling channel that Webb had highlighted – that it had not “played a major role in the emergence of crack.” A Post side-bar story dismissed African-Americans as prone to “conspiracy fears.”
Soon, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times joined in the piling on of Gary Webb. The big newspapers made much of the CIA’s internal reviews in 1987 and 1988 that supposedly cleared the spy agency of a role in contra-cocaine smuggling.
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On a side note, Monday the Unification 'Church' under their front group names had 3,000 for a meal and some chat about how great they're doing at manipulating the planet. (my interpretation)
(I always trust MW's interpretations....he knows his Moon!)
Bush 43 sent a greeting which was read to the crowd by a follower of Moon's, pusher of the Marriage amendment, State Sen. Mark Anderson of Az.
Following that they played a video greeting from Bush 41. As you know, Bush is long time Moon shill. In his message Bush thanked Doug Joo, The Washington Times Foundation, Wes Pruden and many others. I thought he was going to thank the water servers. Bush 41 thanked everyone EXCEPT the man who created all the groups, padded all the pockets with money conned from widows in Japan, and GAVE THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS to the crowd, Moon. Never mentioned him, danced all around him, but never said the word "Moon".
I am aware that Bush 43 uses "religious' talk code when speaking.
But that wasn't as troubling as how 41 used the moonie lingo. He said we need to live "centering on" God. "Centering on" this or that is a very common Moon description. 41 also said a couple times that we need "TRUE" peace. As you know, the moonies put "true" in front of lots of things. "True" Parents, "True" love..etc.
I mention this as one who has never felt these people are secretly members of moon's group. I don't think Moon needs us to be members to direct our country, he has proved that without question. Read some of that here: http://cellwhitman.blogspot.com/
Oh, the video with Bush's 'greeting' which was up for a short period yesterday, has been pulled/scrubbed as of this writing.
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Another poster:
Thank you again for keeping us up to date on Moonfinger.......
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And:
Moonfinger! I love that!
Mooooonfinger.......da daaaaaaaaaaaah DAH!
