Lew:  When I hear CNN and other mainstream media flacks for the institutional order criticize the Internet for anonymous and alleged dishonesty in reporting, I wonder if we shall next be treated to O.J. Simpson lectures on spousal abuse!  These establishment slugs have still not owned up to their roles in repeating the state lies, deceptions, and secret (i.e., ”anonymous”)  rationalizations for wars  that have thus far killed hundreds of thousands innocents.  One commentator went so far as to resurrect Hillary Clinton’s long-standing plea for an Internet “gatekeeper” to protect the public.  The Internet — like the expansion of books published after Gutenberg’s invention — provides a means by which the public can discover the lies, fraud, and corruption practiced by the state against the rest of us.  It is the corporate-state that seeks the protection of the censorship inherent in these efforts to make the Internet useful to political interests.  This is a major reason why the mainstream media has been losing viewers and readers to the Internet, a fact that makes CNN’s plea as disingenuous as listening to Detroit auto-makers criticizing their Japanese competitors!

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