Burning up the smoking Downing memo
I am disgusted at everyone including myself; we don't deserve the torture provided by our less then free press. I am beginning to believe their freedoms to be suspect to conditions; provided via mechanisms unseen by we the people. After all it is we the people who the information is intended to serve. Oh I might sound a little tin foil but hey it wasn't little ole me who sat for nearly two weeks on the now infamous "Downing Street Memo". The often response from everyone in the days preceding this memo's surface from the murky depths of "For Eyes Only" filed documents has been "What memo?” Not a big surprise I have to dawn a shinny hat in * Co. world because; hey they always have a boogey man. Why not Americans, who ask too many questions? Since questions are bad when your presidency is more like an unopened book, then an open bureaucracy.

My particular disgust comes from my perception that reality exists only in the daily dicing of information that is marketed as news. While it is fact that I can communicate with anyone in the world in a matter of seconds as I did when the memo came out; it takes the information brokers of news longer to figure out what to do with this smoking gun memo. Hell if the intention was to report fact based information they could download the memo, and read it; it is available on the Internet. No, that would be way too over simplified, someone would have to fact check it, make sure the military didn't have a problem with it, and oh yeah wait for the presidents think tanks to come up with a plan. Instead let's play hot potato with it until someone else gets shat on for reporting what * Co. knew 9 months before it had even decided on doing it. The two-week lag time got me thinking.

Right after the British election the American information brokers had their reasons why Mr. Blaire's party had done so poorly in their elections. You know not one, a single one, brokered the information that the election had anything to do with this smoking gun memo released just days before. The memo must not have been in the plan on how they were going to "cover" the election results. It wasn't the case in the European press the memo was front-page headline news throughout the election. It has been reported in the US only to be placed between the pages of the classifieds and Dear Abby where truth dies slowly. This wouldn't have anything to do with the American press being compelled by an un-independent paycheck, and mysteriously never fully investigated Anthrax mailings better known as un-idle threats.

It is funny that it took 2 weeks to come up with an appropriate plan on how to deal. The plan has something to do with the Memo not being accurate, not even original, which means they couldn't kill the messenger, or blame it on the tin foil brigade.

Here is something from my tinfoil pouch, after the cold war what happened to the apparatus that was used to protect those that needed protection from the press? It didn't just cease to exist close up shop and move on to other democracy to subvert; I don't know but likely those who operated it were privatized. Do you think an ex-Director of the CIA in the Whitehouse would know whom they were and what to do with them? Do you think that a compelled media cowers without the existence of a threatening posture adverse to its full freedom? Do you actually think * Co. the supreme leader of America would be allowed to get away with so many failures without one person actually forming a questioning about them? I don’t either.

This is the last thing and I will shut myself up. On the day of the first press conference in the Whitehouse since the release of the memo, there was that airplane which caused the evacuation of the Capitol and the Whitehouse. How is it not important to the president that his wife had to be evacuated from the Whitehouse for her safety? This strikes me as simply being odd that he wasn’t told for 70 minutes that his wife might have been in danger.
- posted by Wayne @ 2:25 PM