[CIMC-work] allegations of censorship

[donald goldhamer]

1. I can find no record of this article, hidden, deleted, or otherwise on our
   site.  Does anyone know anything about it.

2. Should we attempt to straighten this out?

--Don
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Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 14:16:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: sam rossiter <ozzysamuk at yahoo.com>
To: imc-chicago at indymedia.org
Subject: [Imc-chicago] please rebut these allegations

Hi Chicago

I know it's tiresome but someone has been throwing accusations of
'censorship' around on the global newswire
  http://newswire.indymedia.org/en/newswire/2004/05/802959.shtml

Apparently you deleted the following post, It doesnt seem to break any
guidelines to me...  was it's deletion a mistake?

I think it would be good if one of you could answer the allegation on the
newswire, just to clear it up.

Cheers Sam 
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President George Bush is now declaring that he's terribly "shocked and
disturbed" over the photo "evidence" of the torture and murder of Iraqi
prisoners by their U.S.Marine captors.

But how can President Bush be shocked and disturbed by the torture and
murder of (*innocent until proven guilty!) Iraqis when President Bush is
actively and willingly involved in a conspiracy with Ariel Sharon and the
Israeli Govt. to abuse;torture and murder another group of Middle East
Arabs,namely the Palestinians!

Ariel Sharon is a documented "War Criminal" and "Mass Murdered" - President
Bush knows this only too well,as he also knows the history of Sharon's
"Secret Police" the Mossad and their ongoing genocidal program of illegal
arrests,torture and murder against the Palestinians. Yet even knowing all
these grisly facts, President Bush recently invited the infamous Ariel
Sharon to the White House and gave him the U.S.Govt.'s Red Carpet VIP
treatment!

President Bush also gave Sharon the U.S.Govt.s full support (financially &
militarily) to continue the Israeli Govt.s genocidal assault on the
indigenous Palestinians - which means more illegal arrests, more torture
and more murders and more military assaults on Palestinian villages and
refugee camps - using (U.S.Tax-Payer supplied) tanks;helicopter gun-ships
and jet fightrers to achieve Sharon and the Israeli's Govt's. greedy and
evil objective.

So for President Bush to say that he's terribly "shocked and disturbed" by
the torture and murders that his US Marines carried out in Fallujah,when at
the same time he's helping Sahron and the Israeli Govt. commit the same and
worse "atrocities" against the Palestinians, is about as deep and genuine
as Bush's avowed and much hyped Christianity.

k.hawley