Palast Charged with Journalism in the First Degree

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On August 22, for LinkTV and Democracy Now! we videotaped the thousands of Katrina evacuees still held behind a barbed wire in a trailer park encampment a hundred miles from New Orleans. It’s been a year since the hurricane and 73,000 POW’s (Prisoners of W) are still in this aluminum ghetto in the middle of nowhere. One resident, Pamela Lewis said, “It is a prison set-up” — except there are no home furloughs for these inmates because they no longer have homes.

To give a sense of the full flavor and smell of the place, we wanted to show that this human parking lot, with kids and elderly, is nearly adjacent to the Exxon Oil refinery, the nation’s second largest, a chemical-belching behemoth.

So we filmed it. Without Big Brother’s authorization. Uh, oh. Apparently, the broadcast of these stinking smokestacks tipped off Osama that, if his assassins pose as poor Black folk, they can get a cramped Airstream right next to a “critical infrastructure” asset.

So now Matt and I have a “criminal complaint” lodged against us with the feds.

entire article:
http://www.gregpalast.com/palast-charged-with-journalism-in-the-first-degree

[Fridays Child]

1. Too good not to kick and recommend!

[cyberpj]

2. Why they really want Palast -

You will see by the items below that there is a reason they want him that has nothing to do with why they arrested him.

Secret US plans for Iraq's oil :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4354269.stm

a short video on Enron secrets and "Kenny Boiy"s relationship to The Bush Family:
http://www.gregpalast.com/enronreport.html

About the book - Armed Madhouse -
http://www.gregpalast.com/armedmadhouse/aboutthebook.html