The full title to this blog post is 'Mel Gibson, Police Melodrama and the Declining Significance of Jury Trials', which is my way of parsing this very important paragraph over at Thought, Word & Deed.
There is more to this than is being discussed in the mainstream media. It is why the mass media is not a source of news or information, but a source of US policy imperatives. Those imperatives do NOT indicate clearly what the US intends to do, but they do indicate what the US wants people to believe.
That paragraph is not referring to Mel Gibson but rather some speculation about hidden motives in an energy war between China and the US. The gist: Hezbollah may not be the tip of an Islamic spear as far as the US is really concerned, rather it's all about China's new energy business with Iran that is the subtext. So if the headlines are full of blather about anti-semitism of Mel Gibson, it's all about preparing Americans to support Israel.
But I'm not so much worried about an energy war with China as I am the possible disintegration of the court system. Is our desire for swift justice so achy breaky that we swarm over scribbled police reports in order to pontificate? Uh.. yeah. So Christopher Hitchens is declaring him guilty and Disney executives are declaring him not guilty. That's the real trial that's going on here, forget what the cops and attorneys and court think this is about.
Scary?
If you think that's not scary, then try to ignore the story. If you're reading this blog, you're already too well informed, so count the number of times and angles from which it drones.
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