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.