Pacifica/KPFA "Mitch Jeserich and Crew of Letters From Washington" Supporting Obama-Holder

Pacifica/KPFA "Mitch Jeserich and Crew of Letters From Washington" Supporting Obama-Holder's "War On Terror"

Mitch Jeserich and Crew of Letters From Washington,
7/21/2010


The "Letters From Washington" program 19 July, 2010 disarms the Peace and Justice community by aquiescing to the War on Terror propaganda regarding Lynne Stewart.

The segment dishonored the 31st Anniversary of the overthrow of the U.S. sponsored Somoza Terror State in Nicaragua, by the popular forces who today would no doubt be labeled "Terrorists" by the War on Terror warriors.

The program betrayed the anti-imperialist Peace and Justice movement with your segment on Lynne Stewart a fighter for anti-war and democratic rights. The inexplicable selection of the pro-War on Terror mouthpiece "The San Francisco Examiner" as a credible source to quote, is mind bogling. This piece called for Lynne Stewart to be executed for the legal defense of Omar Rahman.

Have you crossed the line from Pacifica to be an advocate of the U.S. State "War on Terror"? Pacifica was founded to oppose the warmongering of the state, and if this is your new vocation please resign.

As journalists the only time to quote an outfit like the "SF Examiner" is to expose its extreme pro-war position or when for various reasons it actually is opposing a wing of the state aparatus. The latter would be exampled in the 16 July, 2010 p.6 article exposing the toxic pollution to remain at the Hunters Point Lennar development. The only reason the editors included that piece is because of their hatred of the Democratic Party. The Examiner crew is willing to expose the environmental and health crimes of the Democratic Machine as it rams the Hunters Point project ahead against the community's interests. Such journalism could help the Examiner expose how Senator Feinstein's husband Richard Blum's C.B. Richard Ellis the marketing arm of the development and financial savior of Lennar together with the majority of the San Francisco Democratic Party Machine is lockstep with the project. In this instant you might use the Examiner to support community interests.

Never would a Peace and Justice journalist quote fhe SF Examiner on the War on Terror. Exposure of the fake War on Terror is an urgent necessity. Buying into this U.S. State War on Terror leads to the betrayal of the anti-imperialist fighters like Lynne Stewart. Buying into the War on Terror covers for the class war at home and around the world.

The entire Central-American Solidarity movement of he 1980s would be leabled and prosecuted, like Lynne Stewart is being today, if the War on Terror "Material aid to Terrorism" structure, that exists today, existed in the 1980s.

The Examiner advocated the execution of Lynne Stewart for the defense of her client's case. It is an extremist mouthpiece of the state propaganda system of the War on Terror. To treat the Examiner as serious jounalism on this War is diarming of Pacifica and its listeners as anti-War entities. Your act is a betrayal. It is not journalism, it is acquiescence to the state propaganda that Pacifica needs to be exposing not joining.

Bradley Wiedmaier
bradley_wiedmaier(at)yahoo.com

For the defense website for Lynne Stewart go to Lynne Stewart For Justice http://lynnestewart.org/