[Seattle-editorial] fyi and disccuss

[anarch3m]

Is there an adventitious response to another aspect of anti-wto etcetc = terrorism?  Compare the importance of this issue to the current debate on "american humor' and its place in features?  De-Facto Bias? 

walt 

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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:09:28 -0800
From: workhorse <workhorse at riseup.net>
To: www-features at indymedia.org
Subject: [www-features] PROPOSED: USA violence - Posting On Indymedia 
Newswire Leads To Capture Of Police Murder Suspect

Based on an hour-long collaborative process on irc with about 12-15 people. If
only every feature could be prepared that way...

Because it was done this way and the wording and arrangement are very
intentional, I would suggest posting all three paragraphs on the front page
(rather than the usually-preferable system of just posting the intro).


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USA: VIOLENCE

Posting On Indymedia Newswire Leads To Capture Of Police Murder Suspect 

In a situation that is still unfolding, Andrew Hampton McCrae has 
<a
href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,71479,00.html"
target="new">reportedly</a> been arrested in New Hampshire for the murder of Red
Bluff, California, police officer David Mobilio. Police were led to McCrae after
someone used that name to publish an <a
href="http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/11/1545326.php">article</a> to the San
Francisco IMC newswire claiming responsibility for the murder. The 
"<a
href="http://sf.indymedia.org/process/openpub.php">open publishing</a>"
Indymedia newswires allow for anonymous contributions, so the identity of the
author cannot be confirmed. The author explained that the murder was in protest
of police brutality and corporate impugnity. While some believe 
the article is a
<a
href="http://portland.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=35699&group=webcast
">set-up</a>, a local newspaper in Concord, NH, <a
href="http://www.cmonitor.com/stories/front2002/nhreporter_9.shtml"
target="new">reports</a> that McRae offered the same explanation shortly before
his arrest.
<p>
There is a <a
href="http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=219277&group=webcast">long
tradition</a> of criminals using mass media to get a message out. But the fact
that this was such a brutal murder, and that the confession depicts the crime as
anti-corporate, mixed with the anti-corporate stance of Indymedia and its
emphasis on empowering people to become the media raises concerns that the line
will be blurred in this case. This only serves to distract from 
corporate
media's <a
href="http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/11/1545491_comment.php#1545528">complicity</a>
in murders and violence committed for the benefit of corporations.

<p>
<a href="http://www.redbluffdailynews.com/display/inn_obits/obit1.txt"
target="new">David Mobilio</a> was shot once in the head on November 19 while he
was refueling his police cruiser. Mobilio, 31, was remembered today by his
family and thousands of mourners in the small California town. He was the first
Red Bluff police officer killed in the line of duty.


Discuss this feature
http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=219281&group=webcast



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