Tuesday, March 30, 2010

The CNN Insider: what CNN did not report

A CNN "Insider" page today failed to give any balanced view of the lies of their "source".

This was the "balanced" CNN web headline:
Group arrested not Christian or militia, insider says
By the CNN Wire Staff
March 30, 2010 9:35 a.m. EDT
which should remove any doubt that CNN is the garbage news of the web.

The Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia web page could not be clearer:
A well-armed citizenry is the best form of Homeland Security and can better deter crime, invasion, terrorism, and tyranny.
Of course, they do not say "better" than whom.  Your elected sheriff?  Your "paid" police chief? Our National Guard? The Coast Guard?  The Civilian Air Patrol? The NY Port Authority?  Protect us where?  In and around the Port of Los Angeles?  Are we not watching a "militia" at work breaking heads and terrorizing families in Teheran?  Is Hezbollah a fiction of the Southern Poverty Law Center?

Here is their previous "measured response" to CNN itself:
[...]

Americans want the promise of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness restored and protected. We don't need to have every facet of our lives micromanaged down to the finest detail.

But there are people at every level of government who somehow think it is their divine right to interfere with, tax, regulate, and confiscate every single aspect of working Americans' lives. This is shameful, and it doesn't have to be this way.

But this is not the only issue causing the very pleasing and expected growth of pro-freedom militia groups. The threat of terrorism or disaster will always loom over our heads. Crime is a constant concern for many Americans. And while the threat of invasion seems at best a very distant, remote one, we would like to help keep it that way.
[...]

Lee Miracle (Weapon M), Coordinator
Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia
Michiganmilitia.com
Are they talking about the NTSB? The FAA? The IRS? The EPA?  In what sense must the "pursuit of happiness" be "restored" ?  Machine guns for all?  Or just assault weapons for militias? 
Further on they state:
If you are a United States citizen (or have declared your intent to become such), who is capable of bearing arms, or supports the right to do so, then YOU ARE the militia
Which non-citizens do they imagine have the right to bear arms in America?  Those who "declare" their support?  Declared where and to whom?  Canadian tourists with hunting permits?

At every level of government? Are they thinking of the Kansas territory and the 2nd Amendment?

Do they propose to replace State police with militia? City police with militia? The FBI with militia?

How will state militias better serve our airports, train stations, ports, fuel depots, refineries? Would they replace the Secret Service?

Can any nutter be quoted as an "inside" source by CNN for world-wide consumption? I can see no difference between the Hutaree web site which I visited yesterday and the SE MI Milita site which I visited yesterday in any "Christian" or "militia" essentials.

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