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The list of the governments that have persecuted journalists

The Washington Post hails those reporters who face grave danger from the Taliban and the governments of Cuba, Uganda, Zimbabwe and the U.S.
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  • Friday, November 21, 2008 06:53 AM

    How Messiah Obama Will Work Wonders

    All asking for Obama to properly indict and prosecute the wrong-doers of the Bush Jr. administration have it wrong. Mr Obama will not risk constitutional process, which may eventually judge the misdeeds quite legal and alright. He will use the powers handed to him on a gold platter by Bush Jr. and cronies against them: Cheney, Bush, Gonzales et al. will be snatched off the streets, handcuffed, sacked, taken to secret cellars all aoround the torturing world, detained indefintely and not-tortured [in correspondence with Bush's ruling that 'we don't torture'].

    The new administration will censor Faux News and some other right-wing loudspeakers, abduct and detain Hannity, O'Reilly and their Friends in Guantanamo without contact or any kind of due. Newspapers, magazines, TV shows or bloggers reporting on this will be called 'un-patriotic traitors', their personnell intimidated or just shut off access.

    All this in the name of GOD's WORD, Freedom, Democracy and Peace.

    I can now see why people hope for an afterlife with a penal GOD ...

    —Dierk Haasis Read Dierk Haasis's other letters

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