Thursday, March 17, 2005

A person of non-interest

It's always crazy-making to consider what CNN deems newsworthy. On almost every rare occasion I tune in, there is zero correspondence between the stories I'm following, and those which, say, Daryn Kagan tells me are important. This is no small thing. Because if she's right, then I'm delusional, and have fabricated an elaborate, and scary, fantasy world. A part of me hopes so. It would be a relief to know this is all in my head.

It's not as if I expect to see coverage, amounting to acknowledgement, of state-sanctioned ritual abuse and mind control; of the protected drug trade, and the meaning of a male prostitute in the White House. Neither am I surprised they won't touch Cythia McKinney's grilling Donald Rumsfeld on Dyncorp's trafficking in child sex slaves and the Pentagon's 9/11 war games. Yet I do wonder what it will take for CNN - for anyone in the US media - to regard Michael Meiring as a "person of interest."

You remember Meiring: the naturalized American spook, tied to both the CIA and Mindanao rebel groups such as MILF and Abbu Sayyaf, who blew off his legs in a Davao City hotel room when a bomb of his making exploded prematurely. Just three days later, with the incident under investigation and Meiring suspected in other recent bombings, an FBI team flew in to spirit him out of the hospital, and out of the country. Meiring, last we heard, is living in Los Angeles, possibly under another name, still enjoying the protection of the state.

The latest from Davao City is a Regional Trial Court Judge has announced he has issued a certificate requesting Meiring's extradition.

If the Philippines pursues Meiring's extradition - which I doubt, so long as Gloria Arroyo remains president - it will be interesting to see how far the US will go to obstruct an ally's conduct of the "War on Terror." Just as interesting will be how long the America media can go without mentioning it.

Someone once said, "We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them." It would appear that, once again, American exceptionalism draws certain distinctions.

Yesterday I posted the news of the judge's extradition request on Democratic Underground, with links to previous Meiring stories on my blog. There was hardly any interest. But within a few minutes, my blog was visited by someone from the Department of Defense Network Information Center, stationed in Brisbane Australia, who arrived via the links I'd added to the post.

So it would appear that Meiring's of interest to somebody.

14 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

If only we were delusional....

7:22 p.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ditto.
http://homepage.mac.com/kaaawa/iblog/C177199123/E1646433642/index.html

11:13 p.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

CNN failed to point out that
1. Suharto was probably toppled by sections of the Indonesian military linked to the CIA.
2. Most bombs that go off in Indonesia are the work of the U.S. trained Indonesian military.

5:02 p.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Meiring is a PERFECT example of "what we don't know can't hurt them".

Keep up the great work Jeff - thousands of Americans do truly care and are watching, which is a great start. It's only a matter of time before the rest of the country wakes up.

7:52 p.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I realize I'm way late ...in many more ways than one, but mostly in commenting. Not only that but, my comment is more of a nod and acknowledgement to the previous comments and attitudes expressed in this and other, what I consider "truth related" expos'es. In the last few years I've been foisted into the oxygen depleted atmosphere and submerged into the silent darkened tunnels of apocral self doubt and disturbed sleep fear of censorship by the shrill screaming of repeated "shut-ups" by the people I'd once had and/or hoped to have reasonable dialogue and intelligent interaction on topics that became taboo like 60's lovebeads in the controlled guilt household of the Stepford mansion sometime during the night. I was deeply saddened to think I was so alone, in trying to turn things over on the palm of my hand before deciding what they might be and glancing from side to side to read other's impressions who were not willing to look much less discuss the "nothing's there" contents. I expected them to be interested. I expected too much and therefore felt the sting of disappointment. I see now they were not worthy of my expectations or interest. At least I tried to reach them and now they do get the government they deserve. (I used to hate hearing "foreigners" say that) about "my america". Thanks to Jeff and thanks to the people who bother to comment ... I see I am not alone after all. (sorta reminds me of a Police song) A message in a bottle

3:50 p.m.  
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