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May 10, 2004
More on Blackout from our Troops
Kathryn Cramer: Halliburton Pulling the Plug on GI Communications. More from Kathryn and Ginmar about the communications cutoff.
Very smart on the part of the administration to prevent information access. The truth is that this was the last remaining line of defense against abuses. Think about it. The judicial branch can't act, they've made that clear. The legislative branch can't, they said go to war. The press is so tightly controlled, they can't see things (why is it that these CDs never got to anyone but Seymour Hirsch, but not CNN?).
So all that is left is the Internet, bloggers and that's easy to cut off as you can see here.
We just watched the Pianist. I have to tell you I sometimes feel we are closer to that than I'd like to admit. Liberty is so easy to curtail, but so hard to get back.
In the mean time, let's hope that its hard to actually keep laptops plugged into the Internet in Iraq.
Posted by rich at May 10, 2004 11:45 PM
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