JonBenet Ramsey and the Coming of Martial Law
The FBI has tracked down the man who killed JonBenet Ramsey. Nightline spent its entire program last night on the case. If Ted Koppel were dead, he'd be spinning in his grave. I would be less nervous if the killer had been caught by the local Colorado cops. But the FBI is under federal executive branch control. What they find, and more important, when they find it, can also be controlled by the executive branch. "How convenient," as my mother would say.
A US Army officer has been charged with murder in Iraq. I can't even find that story online.
The ceasefire across the Israeli-Lebanese border seems to be holding, but nobody has yet taken responsibility for restraining Hezbollah. They aren't a country, they aren't under the official control of any country, so the UN and all of the other national and international authorities are just sitting back and hoping they will be good boys.
But none of this is as important as the FBI conveniently turning up the killer of JonBenet Ramsey? Gimme a break! I know that Edgar Allen Poe says nothing moves the emotions so deeply as the death of a beautiful young girl, and JonBenet was only a few years younger than the lost love of Poe's own life. At the time of her death, I found the pictures of her beauty-queen career far more repellent than the picture of her dead body, and was far more saddened by the premature sexualization of her life than the violence of her death. I believe that, intentionally or not, her parents and the child-beauty-queen industry made her a target, and that the pervasive sexualization of childhood is making targets out of most young girls today, exposing them to similar violence.
But I still think that when the FBI chose to announce that the killer had been caught is just awfully convenient for an administration that really wants the American people to be watching something other than the violence in the Middle East and the corruption in Washington.
And the fact that the administration was able to pull it off is even scarier. They have been doggedly working at limiting what the people are allowd to see and hear--retroactively classifying thousands of documents, chasing down leakers of information that needed to be leaked, telling the American people that it is none of our business what our government does on our money, in our name, and presumably for our benefit. But the Ramsey ploy takes disinformation to a new level. The administration is not only trying to empty the news of important content, but deliberately replacing it with a purely local, back-page story, replacing Nightline with Entertainment Tonight.
If they are allowed to get away with it, I don't know what the next step will be, but it's entirely possible that the step after that could be a declaration of martial law and cancellation of the 2008 elections. After all, we are at war, aren't we? And this particular war is likely to go on for at least the next ten or twenty years, right? And we can't change horses in midstream, right? Watch this space. You heard it here first.
A US Army officer has been charged with murder in Iraq. I can't even find that story online.
The ceasefire across the Israeli-Lebanese border seems to be holding, but nobody has yet taken responsibility for restraining Hezbollah. They aren't a country, they aren't under the official control of any country, so the UN and all of the other national and international authorities are just sitting back and hoping they will be good boys.
But none of this is as important as the FBI conveniently turning up the killer of JonBenet Ramsey? Gimme a break! I know that Edgar Allen Poe says nothing moves the emotions so deeply as the death of a beautiful young girl, and JonBenet was only a few years younger than the lost love of Poe's own life. At the time of her death, I found the pictures of her beauty-queen career far more repellent than the picture of her dead body, and was far more saddened by the premature sexualization of her life than the violence of her death. I believe that, intentionally or not, her parents and the child-beauty-queen industry made her a target, and that the pervasive sexualization of childhood is making targets out of most young girls today, exposing them to similar violence.
But I still think that when the FBI chose to announce that the killer had been caught is just awfully convenient for an administration that really wants the American people to be watching something other than the violence in the Middle East and the corruption in Washington.
And the fact that the administration was able to pull it off is even scarier. They have been doggedly working at limiting what the people are allowd to see and hear--retroactively classifying thousands of documents, chasing down leakers of information that needed to be leaked, telling the American people that it is none of our business what our government does on our money, in our name, and presumably for our benefit. But the Ramsey ploy takes disinformation to a new level. The administration is not only trying to empty the news of important content, but deliberately replacing it with a purely local, back-page story, replacing Nightline with Entertainment Tonight.
If they are allowed to get away with it, I don't know what the next step will be, but it's entirely possible that the step after that could be a declaration of martial law and cancellation of the 2008 elections. After all, we are at war, aren't we? And this particular war is likely to go on for at least the next ten or twenty years, right? And we can't change horses in midstream, right? Watch this space. You heard it here first.
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