West Nile, stolen tankers, Al Qaeda, Jose Padilla, Laci Peterson...

[linazelle]

Hmmm...what else can they use to take the war crimes out of the news?

[2Design]

1. exactly

this laci peterson stuff has been on the air for too long...and real crimes against thousands by our government are not shown...
we see sniper trials and every little bit and piece of it or OJ simpson

but when we have real crimes, war crimes, it is a splash in the pan...

it is tough when the news media reports so little on the truth....

[ewagner]

2. Actually it cuts both ways

Scott Peterson trial took Ashcroft's plant about Padilla off the front pages.

Of course, it took the prison abuse scandal off too but it seems to be equal opportunity incompetence in the media.

[MasonJar]

3. In relation to Padilla, I think that if they have proof of the allega-

tions against him, then try him. Let him have a lawyer, a court date and a trial. If the government cannot present a good enough case, then free him. This is before the Supreme Court, and I can guess how the votes will go. Good-bye democracy. This could be any of us next.

[Andy_Stephenson]

4. "This could be any of us next."

Your right...they are setting precedent...I hear Gitmo is nice this time of year. Think of it as a tropical vacation.

[JHB]

5. I thought you were writing new lines to "We didn't start the fire"

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye

Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Maciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dancron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkwether, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichman, Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

[ariellyn]

6. If the "news" doesn't work, I think they'll make news happen

if you know what I mean...winkwink