Like I say on the Morphizm portal, this is not a drill. Homeland Security has finally had enough of BBC Newsnight, UK Guardian, Harper's and Democracy Now! journo Greg Palast, and his investigations, and wants to throw him and producer Matt Pascarella in Gitmo with the rest of the terrorists. Why? Because the Armed Madhouse and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy author filmed Katrina evacuees being fenced in like cattle in temporary, draconian "housing" over one year after the killer storm (more below on that). What it has to do with 9/11 is anyone's guess. What it has to do with the prison-like complex storing these evacuees being located next to an Exxon refinery is everything. After all, when you drop a cool million to get Bush into office -- and to trash the Koyoto treaty -- you expect results. It's a short trip from that to true-school journos like Greg and Matt getting the Brazil treatment. And you thought journos in Sudan and China were the only ones getting the screw. Wrong. It happens here too. Read on:
Charged With Journalism in the First Degree
"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. So we filmed it. Without Big Brother's authorization. Uh, oh." MORE
Suffice it to say that if these charges stick, investigative journos looking to dig up the truth on shenanigans from energy sector powerhouses like Exxon are about as safe as the streets of Iraq these days. Who will be next on HomeSec's list if this thing succeeds? Stay tuned.
-- Scott Thill
