Gary Webb: In His Own Words

[Geek_Girl]

I'm not sure if this has been posted but I thought it was an interesting video clip.

GNN

[Goldeneye]

1. I'm waiting for it to finish loading, but the first half was interesting.

thanks for posting this.

[catgirl]

2. Thank you so much for posting this

Wow. Gary Webb is a hero. I wish more journalists had
his courage and conviction. I'm feeling rather melancholy now.

[BrotherBuzz]

3. More words from Gary...

My computer doesn't do video clips so I don't know if I'm repeating anything in the clip, but I found these words in the Sacramento News and Review tribute to Gary Webb. The following is a portion of a transcript of a talk Webb gave in 1999 in Eugene, Ore.

http://www.parascope.com/mx/articles/garywebb/garyWebbSpeaks.htm

http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2004-12-16/feature.asp

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So, for the record, let me just say this right now. I do not believe--and I have never believed--that the crack-cocaine explosion was a conscious CIA conspiracy, or anybody’s conspiracy, to decimate black America. I’ve never believed that South Central Los Angeles was targeted by the U.S. government to become the crack capital of the world. But that isn’t to say that the CIA’s hands or the U.S. government’s hands are clean in this matter. Actually, far from it. After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government’s responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.

But it’s important to differentiate between malign intent and gross negligence. And that’s an important distinction, because it’s what makes premeditated murder different from manslaughter. That said, it doesn’t change the fact that you’ve got a body on the floor, and that’s what I want to talk about tonight, the body.

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"The one thing that I’ve learned from this whole experience is, first of all, you can’t believe the government--on anything. And you especially can’t believe them when they’re talking about important stuff, like this stuff. The other thing is that the media will believe the government before they believe anything." - Gary Webb

http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2004-12-16/feature.asp