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HomeBlogDecember 2011 December 27, 2011: The Media, Ron Paul and a Third Rail named Vanunu Mordechai
December 27, 2011: The Media, Ron Paul and a Third Rail named Vanunu Mordechai
December 27, 2011: The Media, Ron Paul and a Third Rail named Vanunu Mordechai
One week before the Iowa caucus as Ron Paul’s
poll numbers are surging, the Media’s scrutiny is focused on the contents of an
“investment newsletter” that Paul produced and profited from back in the
’80s and ’90s. Entitled the “Ron Paul Investment Newsletter” or the “Ron
Paul Survival Newsletter” it also contained a series of racially biased
attacks.
Paul maintains he didn’t write the pieces
but The Washington Post is running a series of four columns this week examining
“how factual Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) has been in describing his career in
politics” entitled Fact Checker: Ron Paul and the racist newsletters.
I posted a few comments, beginning with this one:
Google “The Serial Hypocrisy of The Media vis-a-vis Ron Paul
and Mordechai Vanunu” which is the first in THAT ongoing series!
PS: The photo is of me and ‘retired’
as in fired White House Correspondent Helen Thomas. Google “An Evening with
Helen Thomas and Flashback to John Lennon and Vanunu Mordechai” for the first
in THAT ongoing series.
Time
will tell if WaPo will follow that lead and another comment that led to "Back to
Ron Paul, The Media and Mordechai Vanunu" Read more…
On Christmas Eve I posted the following
comment to Mordechai Vanunu’s Youtube channel:
eileen4HOUSE2012It is lame to wish you a Merry Christmas when I wish you a FINAL Christmas in a
place that is not home to you and decades more in full freedom, health and
happiness.
“The ‘Serial Hypocrisy’ of The Media
vis-a-vis Ron Paul and Mordechai Vanunu” has spread to multiple pages on a
Google Search and i think mostly because many Americans are favoring Ron Paul
for president. So my next step is try to reach him and remind him that in 1996,
36 congressional reps stood up for Vanunu’s freedom because “we have a duty to
stand up for men and women like Vanunu who dare to articulate a brighter vision
for humanity.”
In April 1999, thirty-six members
of the House of Representatives sent a letter to President Clinton regarding
the incarceration of Israel’s nuclear whistle blower because they believed
"we have a duty to stand up for men and women like Mordechai Vanunu who
dare to articulate a brighter vision for humanity."
President Clinton responded with a
public statement expressing concern for Vanunu and the need for Israel and
other non-parties to the Non-Proliferation Treaty to adhere to it and accept
IAEA safeguards.
Were
you one of the 36 congressional representatives who signed that letter?
Will you also
comment regarding what Vanunu told me in 2005:
“Did you know that President Kennedy tried
to stop Israel from building atomic weapons? In 1963, he forced Prime Minister
Ben Guirion to admit the Dimona was not a textile plant, as the sign outside
proclaimed, but a nuclear plant. The Prime Minister said, ‘The nuclear reactor
is only for peace.’
“Kennedy insisted on an open internal inspection. He wrote letters demanding
that Ben Guirion open up the Dimona for inspection.
“When Johnson became president, he made an agreement with Israel that two
senators would come every year to inspect. Before the senators would visit, the
Israelis would build a wall to block the underground elevators and stairways.
From 1963 to ’69, the senators came, but they never knew about the wall that
hid the rest of the Dimona from them.
“Nixon stopped the inspections and agreed to ignore the situation. As a result,
Israel increased production. In 1986, there were over two hundred bombs. Today,
they may have enough plutonium for ten bombs a year.”
If you were President what
would you do?
Thank you for your
consideration and most sincerely all the best,
Vanunu
addressed The Media just prior to being sent
back to solitary confinement for 78 days in the summer of 2010- the outcome of
his freedom of speech trial and essentially punishment for speaking to foreign
media in 2004 after he emerged from 18 years in a windowless tomb sized cell
for telling the world the truth about Israel’s 7-story underground weapons of
mass destruction facility at the Dimona plant in the Negev Valley:
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"He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust." - Aquinas
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without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and
ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
" In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."-Mother Teresa
“You cannot talk like sane men around a peace table while the atomic bomb itself is ticking beneath it. Do not treat the atomic bomb as a weapon of offense; do not treat it as an instrument of the police. Treat the bomb for what it is: the visible insanity of a civilization that has ceased...to obey the laws of life.”- Lewis Mumford, 1946
The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind of leadership....a leadership of intellect, judgment, tolerance and rationality, a leadership committed to human values, to world peace, and to the improvement of the human condition. The attributes upon which we must draw are the human attributes of compassion and common sense, of intellect and creative imagination, and of empathy and understanding between cultures." - William Fulbright
“Any nation that year after year continues to raise the Defense budget while cutting social programs to the neediest is a nation approaching spiritual death.” - Rev. MLK
Establishment of Israel
"On the day of the termination of the British mandate and on the strength of the United Nations General Assembly declare The State of Israel will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel: it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion it will guarantee freedom of religion [and] conscience and will be faithful to the Charter of the United Nations." - May 14, 1948. The Declaration of the Establishment of Israel
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