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Evidence of State-Controlled U.S. Media?
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Posted on 04/21/2002 10:00:59 AM PDT by A Vast RightWing Conspirator

I witnessed with some interest the ample coverage of the OK City bombing anniversary - a terrorist act - the other day. I can't get myself to ever watch the Networks news but the cable newsies are sometimes on in our house. They all - Fox, MSNBC, CNN - carried hour-long or longer shows featuring the dead's relatives, describing their grief, etc., etc. However, none of them, not even the beloved Fox, didn't bother to allocate even ONE MINUTE to the victims of government-sponsored terror, burned at Waco on the same day, three years before OK city. These people have surviving friends and relatives too and, I will say, they suffered A LOT MORE than their OK City counterparts. Unlike the OK City survivors and relatives, these people were not subject to national adulation via the media, no one publicly felt their pain. These people, after seeing their friends and relatives shot or burned by agents of our always-loving government, have been arrested, dragged through courts and many have served jail time.

There was no sympathy expressed on Fox, CNBC or CNN. Or did I miss those shows?

If I missed them, please correct. If I didn't, then what prevented these media outlets from remembering Waco. After all, they are always desperate to fill dead time with something interesting to talk about. Is there a code of good behavior which prevents them from discussing Waco? Could anyone explain?


TOPICS: Government; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: okcity; waco

1 posted on 04/21/2002 10:00:59 AM PDT by A Vast RightWing Conspirator
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To: A Vast RightWing Conspirator
The wrong people are in charge in this country.

Get out top rallies in support of the Constitution.

Before we see the "truth" in TV we must "replace" the current set of blunderheads.

The media is the "effect" of the cause which is rotten Government at the top.

2 posted on 04/21/2002 10:12:52 AM PDT by RISU
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To: A Vast RightWing Conspirator
I didn't see anything about 1775 either, wouldn't want to give anybody ideas now.
3 posted on 04/21/2002 10:31:11 AM PDT by StriperSniper
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To: StriperSniper
Of course you didn't.
4 posted on 04/21/2002 10:44:50 AM PDT by A Vast RightWing Conspirator
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To: A Vast RightWing Conspirator
This morning myself and my three boys didn't say a word about OKC, but we happened to have a long conversation about WACO. The *real America* has not forgotten - not on little bit!
5 posted on 04/21/2002 11:01:34 AM PDT by The Duke
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To: A Vast RightWing Conspirator
Anyone that believes that the government does not have some control over the media agenda isn't looking very close..
6 posted on 04/21/2002 11:23:41 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: A Vast RightWing Conspirator
We don't have a free press in this country (except for the internet), the networks are bought and paid for by big corporations, the same ones who finance all our presidential elections.
7 posted on 04/21/2002 11:30:37 AM PDT by TiaS
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To: A Vast RightWing Conspirator
Simple, because the news agenda is market driven, and really very few people would rather hear about some apocalypic child molesters who shot at police officers than Americans who were killed in a terrorist attack,

Don't make David Koresh a hero, he was a pedophile, a murderer and a fraud.

8 posted on 04/21/2002 11:33:41 AM PDT by ContentiousObjector
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Don't make David Koresh a hero, he was a pedophile, a murderer and a fraud.

Just as in Nazi Germany, the formula is the same: 1. Demonize the enemy. 2. Scare the people with lies. 3. Kill the enemy.

The sheeple will follow their government every time.

9 posted on 04/21/2002 12:07:22 PM PDT by SkiBum
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To: ContentiousObjector
Don't make David Koresh a hero, he was a pedophile, a murderer and a fraud.

I don't believe Koresh was the only one who burned at Waco. In fact, there were quite a few children among the gov't's innocent victims.

Justifying the killing of dozens of innocent people because you believe that David Koresh was not to your liking is a perversion of common sense and sick beyond description - I hope you are not offended but... this is how I feel.

10 posted on 04/21/2002 12:10:04 PM PDT by A Vast RightWing Conspirator
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To: A Vast RightWing Conspirator
An interesting contradiction, because Freepers don't seem to have a problem with innocent palistinians and afghanis getting killed, infact many appear to sexualy climax discussing it and laughing at it.

Infact if I even discussed innocent civilians in palistine and afghanistan getting killed, i would be labeled an anti-american leftist lunatic who supports terrorism

This guy was a criminal, he picked a fight with the federal government, he murdered federal agents and now he is in hell, the blood of those children is on his hands, not the governments.

11 posted on 04/21/2002 12:48:52 PM PDT by ContentiousObjector
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To: A Vast RightWing Conspirator

12 posted on 04/21/2002 12:58:42 PM PDT by jlogajan
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To: ContentiousObjector
Do you believe that the U.S. was at war with the Branch Davidians? Are you implying that David Koresh was a terrorist? Were the B.D.'s a danger to national security?

Let me help you. The correct answers to all of the above is no. Making a parallel between the inhabitants of Mount Carmel and the Taliban is just a bit... out of there.

I'm not saying that you are a sick individual and I hope you're not. But your writings appear to suggest that.

13 posted on 04/21/2002 1:01:06 PM PDT by A Vast RightWing Conspirator
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To: A Vast RightWing Conspirator
The Branch Davidians declared war on the federal government, they murdered federal agents, they were cop killers, had they not murdered federal agents, this would have never happened.

They used the children as human sheilds, they could have released the children, but he chose he would rather be a coward and use them as sheilds.

He was a criminal, no better than any other cop killer, I shead no tears for him

14 posted on 04/21/2002 1:07:19 PM PDT by ContentiousObjector
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To: ContentiousObjector
They used the children as human sheilds, they could have released the children, but he chose he would rather be a coward and use them as sheilds.

The same could be said about putting daycare centers in federal buildings which are used to plan and simulate attacks on American citizens. As I recall there was a daycare center in the Federal Murrah building where the FBI planned their attrocity on the Branch Davidians.

15 posted on 04/21/2002 1:17:53 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: ContentiousObjector
Maybe you are thinking of someone else. The Branch Davidians were a small group of religious kooks who bothered no one. Charges of child abuse were investigated by the appropriate Texas authorities and no case was found to exist. Note that that is not the same as saying Koresh was not boffing underaged girls, just that the authorities with jurisdiction didn't find that he was. The BATFags have no jurisdiction in cases of child abuse.

The BATFags presented a fraudulent afidavit to a judge who rubberstamped a search warrent which the BATFags proceded to serve on the end of a bayonet. The BATFag assault was insanely planned. If the BDs were dangerous criminals who might resist then BATFag casualties were all but certain. If the BDs where not dangerous criminals, then why not just present a warrent and do the search? The only way the assault plan makes sense is if the BATFags were after cool video tape to show congresscritters who were in charge of the appropriation. Instead, the BDs resisted a little and it turned into a cluster fxxk. If the BDs had been waiting for them in ambush, the BATFags would have been wiped out.

17 posted on 04/27/2002 5:22:39 PM PDT by Rifleman
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To: ContentiousObjector
"Infact if I even discussed innocent civilians in palistine and afghanistan getting killed, i would be labeled an anti-american leftist lunatic who supports terrorism."

I wouldn't label you an anti American leftist for wanting to discuss innocent pallis and afghani's dying.

Matter of fact, as a human being, I absolutely hate to see any innocent human suffer an unjust death.

Just remember, those same "innocent pallis" that you are refering to, are the same ones who madly celebrated the deaths of your fellow Americans on September 11.

18 posted on 04/27/2002 5:35:40 PM PDT by Vigilantcitizen
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To: ContentiousObjector
This guy was a criminal, he picked a fight with the federal government,

I'm not sure how one becomes a criminal before a trial, and if even if he was, the punishment didn't fit the crime.

19 posted on 08/03/2002 5:54:54 PM PDT by JPJones
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