Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Greg Palast: Charged with Journalism in the First Degree | BuzzFlash

This is outrageous and, we fear, a sign of more outrages to come!

Greg Palast: Charged with Journalism in the First Degree BuzzFlash:

It's true. It's weird. It's nuts. The Department of Homeland Security, after a five-year hunt for Osama, has finally brought charges against ... Greg Palast. I kid you not. Send your cakes with files to the Air America wing at Guantanamo.

Though not just yet. Fatherland Security has informed me that television producer Matt Pascarella and I have been charged with unauthorized filming of a 'critical national security structure' in Louisiana.

On August 22, for LinkTV and Democracy Now! we videotaped the thousands of Katrina evacuees still held behind a barbed wire in a trailer park encampment a hundred miles from New Orleans. It's been a year since the hurricane and 73,000 POW's (Prisoners of W) are still in this aluminum ghetto in the middle of nowhere. One resident, Pamela Lewis, said, 'It is a prison set-up' -- except there are no home furloughs for these inmates because they no longer have homes.

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