I encountered a more immediate rewriting of history when I participated the G20 protests last year. Ten minutes of escalation were exaggerated to "Melbourne's most violent day", and no mainstream medium offered "fair and balanced" coverage of this events.
However, Chomsky's propaganda model offers insights into the constraints of mainstream media, so it's not too surprising that representatives of corporatism get in line against the Global Justice Movement (which is what is widely called with the derogatory and misleading term "Anti Globalisation Movement").
Yet, not all sources of information and reference are traded, some of them are free. Although we are constantly reminded to by our tutors not to use Wikipedia in academic context, we all know (and probably use) it.
"It is entirely legitimate for your personal political staff to make changes of a factual nature, but to engage public servants to go out there and re-edit history, it strikes me as odd to say the least."
That's Kevin Rudd's comment on the war on history fought by the Howard government. I wouldn't call it odd, just a typical sign of a nominal democracy that lacks sufficient checks and balances.
Dr. Haneef lost his visa because he visited a distant relative. John Howard confers with the Exclusive Brethren, his mate sold visas for cash, but his "character" is not in doubt. Have fun electing your next master - it's not the person Howard, that is particularly bad, it's a system that allows the ruling class to get away with more than its populace ever would. Baaah
To me, the following piece is an indication that history might repeat itself.
Such clergy response teams would walk a tight-rope during martial law between the demands of the government on the one side, versus the wishes of the public on the other. "In a lot of cases, these clergy would already be known in the neighborhoods in which they're helping to diffuse that situation," assured Sandy Davis. He serves as the director of the Caddo-Bossier Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.
For the clergy team, one of the biggest tools that they will have in helping calm the public down or to obey the law is the bible itself, specifically Romans 13. Dr. Tuberville elaborated, "because the government's established by the Lord, you know. And, that's what we believe in the Christian faith. That's what's stated in the scripture."
Civil rights advocates believe the amount of public cooperation during such a time of unrest may ultimately depend on how long they expect a suspension of rights might last.
Feds Train Clergy To "Quell Dissent" During Martial Law is the title of the youtube clip below.
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