Pacific Free Press was launched in March 2007 by Dutch-Canadian Richard
Kastelein of V.O.F. Expathos, in the Netherlands along with Chris Cook- CFUV radio journalist and Editor in Chief of Pacific Free Press. Cook is based in , Victoria, British Columbia.
The mission of Pacific Free Press is simple: to dig out nuggets of truth from
the slag-heap of lies, ignorance and witless diversion that has buried
public discourse today. Pacific Free Press provides a new venue for
disseminating hard news and insightful, fact-based analysis of the
harsh realities too often ignored or distorted by the mainstream press.
Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, William Blum, Sarah Bjorknas July 14, 2008
American author, William Blum and the metastasizing culture of impunity killing the body politic at home and abroad; Sarah Bjorknas, Vancouver War Resisters Support Campaign co-ordinator on the case of Robin Long, arrested and appealing a deportation order today.
Whether a president who starts wars without
just cause, or a soldier who slaughters an innocent family, but never
faces justice, they both commit atrocities that leave their victims no
due recourse. It could be the retroactive "authorization" for crimes,
as the recent amendments to the FISA Act in the United States proposes,
or the slew of pardons the unimpeached president Bush will necessarily
decree for crimes committed by those in his service in some short
months time; but whatever the reasons, what we see today from the
headlines to the frontlines to the breadlines is a growing culture of
impunity, undermining that most basic foundation of our society:
Justice.
Without equality before the law, civilization dies.
Without the guarantee that those endangering the life and liberty of
the polity will be arrested their illegal endevours, and brought before
a panel as impartial as is possible to be judged and sentenced
accordingly, anarchy prevails: Not the anarchy of literalists, poets,
or utopians, where Humankind is finally freed the fetters of the
arbitrary diktats of Church and State, but a jungle where savagery
rules. It's a dangerous moment, as empires go; the only stage of
development following the crapulent flourishing of unanswerable
criminality is collapse.
William Blum is an America author and
creator of The Anti-Empire Report, an internet bulletin marking the
passage of that sad nation at its most corrupt moment. Blum's, who gave
up his position with the Johnson administration in objection to his
nation's activities in Vietnam, book titles include: 'Killing Hope:
U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II,' 'Rogue State:
A Guide to the World's Only Super-Power,' West-Bloc Dissident, a Cold
War Memoir,' and his latest, ' Freeing the World to Death: How the
United States Gets Away With It.' He's also a contributor to the newly
released anthology of our times, 'International Justice and Impunity:
The Case of the United States.' William Blum in the first segment.
And;
American war resister, Robin Long was scheduled to appear before a
hearing into his status in Canada today in Vancouver. Long was arrested
by Canada's increasingly muscular Border Services agents in Nelson
recently, and charged with violating conditions of his residency
permit; charges he denies. Sarah Bjorknas is with the Vancouver chapter
of the War Resisters Support Campaign and she'll be here in the second
half to bring us up to speed with Robin Long's application for a stay
of deportation.
And; Goods for Cuba caravanista, Janine
Bandcroft has reportedly left the country, but we're not sure if she'll
be able to touch down at the bottom of the hour with her doubtlessly
interesting travellogue; but first: Getting away with it with William
Blum.
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