THE DEAFENING SILENCE OF THE MEDIA,
SERVANTS OF THE UNITED STATES REGIME

It is now an established fact that most of the North American media has become nothing more than an instrument of propaganda for the American regime. Still believing that they are living in a working democracy, too many Americans do not realize that their opinions and beliefs are DRIVEN by state policies, as opposed to the other way around. And the media, as always, play an important role in the formation (should we say "conditioning?") of public opinion.

With the exception of the Wall Street Journal and very few others, the media has been totally silent on two important victories in the war against the anti-tobacco cartel. But in the thick Internet forest, we found these articles:

JUSTICE AGENCY WINDS DOWN TOBACCO PROBE
(The Wall Street Journal, March 11, 1999)

TOBACCO FIRMS WIN IN UNION-FUND TRIAL
Stocks Jump as Ohio Jury Finds Lack of Liability Tied to Smoker Benefits
(The Wall Street Journal, March 19, 1999)

Even us, who are watching carefully for any new information on this lurid war, missed these ones at first.

The first article is of particular importance for us. Millions of taxpayers' dollars have been spent by the anti-tobacco cartel and its operatives to sift with the finest screen millions of documents from the tobacco industry, in the desperate attempt to find something they can use for their criminal propaganda against tobacco, and to justify more legal action against it.

We have been told that even possible links between FORCES and the tobacco industry were looked for with great diligence -- and, of course, with negative results. And what have these criminals found? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING -- just a minor misdemeanor from an industry supplier a few years ago. And now, like thieves in the night, the bastards are quietly winding down their investigation. This failure to find any evidence makes the tobacco industry among the most correct and law-abiding industries in America. It does not take much imagination to see that, if similar multi-decade probing would have been performed against ANY industry, irregularities of all kinds would have emerged, since it is virtually impossible for any industry or individual to go "by the book" at all times -- intentionally or not.

But in the case of the tobacco industry, this has happened.

When the probe was announced, the American and other Anglo-Saxon media went out of their way to make sure that the entire world knew about it. In some cases, even special broadcast interruptions were done in order to update this news. CNN, CBS, ABC, and all the other servants of the anti-tobacco cartel even made special icons, special musical motifs, and special communiqués to cheer the news in the most lurid and infantile way possible.

And now that it turns out that the TOBACCO INDUSTRY HAS DONE NOTHING IRREGULAR, the silence of the media is deafening.

Where are the musical motifs, the special icons and communiqués now? Why is THIS information not divulged with equal vigor? Doesn't the public deserve to know, CBS? What about a special edition of "60 Minutes" by your chief anti-tobacco bufoon Mike Wallace?

The big media networks don't want to look like what they really are -- irresponsible entities who have sold themselves financially and ideologically to a political agenda of lies and deceptions on smoking, smokers, and tobacco. And, they sold themselves to the persecution of a legal industry that has been chosen as a social scapegoat and as an extortion vehicle to loot 25% of the US population. And all this has been done to increase their ratings.

We realize that it is naive to expect the punishment of the irresponsible individuals who have the power to disseminate this kind of informational garbage. We also realize that the tobacco industry does not have the political backbone to sue these charlatans for defamation of character -- something that should have been done long time ago if there were some resemblance of justice left in America, for there is a difference between freedom of press and systematic slander.

But in the most corrupted years of American history, this is not even conceivable. In fact, the criminal White House Administration is at it again, leading yet another assault against the tobacco industry (and the pockets of smokers, for which it has contempt).

Even in the darkest dictatorships, however, the power is always in the hands of the people. It is going to be the Americans' responsibility to rid themselves of a corruption in their government that brings unspeakable grief inside and outside their nation, as even demonstrated in recent and current international events, where three countries have been assaulted in the last eight months.

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