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December 17, 2004
A Few Responses to Gary Webb's Death
I too think there was a black cloud that swept over the internet yesterday and stunned everyone.
Gary is in peace, he finished his work, an accomplishment. His children can be proud of their dad.
Our work is still on-going and ahead.
Webb should have his name written in large face on the museum to reporters killed in the line of duty. What his spineless newspaper and the agency did to him was slo-mo-murder.
It remains true though, that while the more vocal among us are criticised and can be marginalised through manipulation of the facts, by some or other uncanny force, just when one starts to believe the battle has been lost to whatever oppressing force, suddenly more support becomes visible, and others rise up to lift the 'Aquila' of freedom and truth. And somehow, there are always more 'Aquilifers' to keep on going.
You must have noticed that somehow, despite the best efforts of those wielding the dark cloud of censorship, lightning bolts of truth keeping flashing through, and in this sign we can base hope and draw support. They keep trying, but they never quite win, and I don't believe they ever will win.
Many of us live life on the edge... your own words I'm sure... and what is marginalisation by definition? Our only challenge is to remain on the front edge and not the rear edge, ahead of the storm, not crumpled, tossed and torn in its wake. It seems that the 'oppressors that be' do not realise how in many ways their actions may just be helping to keep us where we actually belong - on the edge.
"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually
to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly
preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic." John LeCarre
He was/is one of my heroes, too. What the LATimes did is unforgivable, and typical.
Posted by Thieme at December 17, 2004 08:27 PM
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