[Peace-discuss] Thoughts on the coming 'discovery' of Bin

[jencart]

Boy, does this hit the nail on the head.... And if/when the Republicans do find Bin Laden, it won't matter what ANYONE sez about much of anything -- unless the media undergoes a major transformation betw now and then.....Unlikely. The Demos prob shouldn't be emphasizing that the Republicans have failed to find Bin Laden, like that's as bad as their lies which justified the war against Iraq and all the other stuff, 2000 election scams, fraud/voting election machines 2002 and 2004......

Jenifer C.
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Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 04:35:21 +0900
From: Eric Smith <snowdog at juno.ocn.ne.jp>
To: ppatton at uiuc.edu
Subject: Thoughts on the coming 'discovery' of Bin Laden: the best
    propaganda a campaign can buy

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OPINION: THOUGHTS ON THE COMING "DISCOVERY" OF BIN LADEN --The Best Propaganda Money can Buy

Unless preparations are made for its eventuality, the announcement of Bin Laden's capture will be the death-knell for the 2004 Democratic campaign. And, like the "heroic rescue" of Jessica Lynch or the toppling of Hussein's statue by "jubilant throngs" of Iraqis, it needn't even be real:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/correspondent/3028585.stm http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-scheer20may20,1,2187120.column http://www.startribune.com/stories/1762/3907255.html

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2838.htm

So Democrats must have a pre-emptive strategy in place; the most obvious being, early in the game, to accuse the White House of sitting on Bin Laden for political gain.

A better one is to launch an independent investigation to find Bin Laden first and announce the discovery before Rove's political operatives; this would be a huge coup.

In case you haven't been paying attention, this election year, Republicans are playing a deadly game of attrition -- death by a thousand tiny cuts, so to speak: extreme gerrymandering in Texas, the recall of a governor in California, the installation of inauditable, easily "preprogrammed" DRE e-vote machines in as many counties as will allow them to be stuffed down their throats, relentless and bloody character assassinations in a bought-and-paid-for Murdoch-dominated media empire, absentee ballots counted by an untouchable firm in Kuwait, stacked courts ready to deliver decisions for which 2000's Gore vs. Bush set the precedent.

The odds look dire for Democrats (and, by extension, the majority of Americans, though they are as yet blissfully unaware of the slender thread from which all our liberties hang).

But, in case you haven't connected the dots, this time the GOP is playing for keeps.

Once the fix is in, there will be no turning back: by an invisible, carefully planned coup, the neoconservatives will have transformed America into an autocracy, and any remaining political opposition will be window dressing.

And so, I challenge you: this is a battle we perhaps cannot win, but, at all costs, MUST NOT LOSE.

The consequences of surrender will be incalculable: one by one, like dominos, institutions we c