Tales of Everyday Manipulation

**Percy** · #1 29th-September-2008

Our news media are manipulated and manipulating. It is not just a matter of suppressing events, it is diverting people from linking things to gether and deliberately misleading them.

Quote:

http://blogwonks.com/2008/09/28/chicago-war-deaths/

September 28th, 2008 by Alan Korwin
The lamestream media told you:
“CHICAGO (CBS) — 125 Shot Dead In Chicago Over Summer; Total Is About Double The U.S. Troop Death Toll In Iraq

“An estimated 125 people were shot and killed over the summer. That’s nearly double the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq over the same time period.

“In May, cbs2chicago.com began tracking city shootings and posting them on Google maps. Information compiled from our reporters, wire service reports and the Chicago Police Major Incidents log indicated that 125 people were shot and killed throughout the city between the start of Memorial Day weekend on May 26, and the end of Labor Day on Sept. 1.

According to the Defense Department, 65 U.S. soldiers were killed in combat in Iraq. About the same number were killed in Afghanistan over that same period.

In the same time period, an estimated 247 people were shot and wounded in the city.”

You can see the maps yourself.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
In a story almost without precedent, CBS identified Chicago’s high murder rate as almost totally gang related and geographically isolated. In modern America, that would mean these are war deaths in the War on Some Drugs, and not “gun deaths” as the media likes to frame the argument, to vilify firearms and create public fear.

With surprising candor, CBS announced, “Gang and gun violence continue to be the dominating threat on our streets,” according to a police e-mail to CBS. “Up to 60 percent of the shootings are gang related. More than 90 percent of the offenders have criminal histories and up to 80 percent of the victims have criminal histories.”

It’s unclear how the police concluded that only 60% of these crimes are gang related, when 90% of the shooters have criminal records and 80% of the victims do too. It’s also a fairly typical police distortion to suggest gun violence is the dominant threat “on our streets” when these gangland rubouts happen “on their streets,” and normal citizens generally only get to see it on the news from the “bad” neighborhoods.

Look at the maps. Comparing Chicago’s rubout rate to the wars against Islamofascists is just bad reporting, from the town that has virtually banned guns (unlike Iraq and Afghanistan) and spawned Barack Obama.

**Percy** · #2 29th-September-2008

The war in Iraq is made out to be horrific. Yes, the dead there include Iraquies who kill one another with abandon, but the US makes such a fuss about the soldiers who are killed. They are fewer than in just one US city. Multiply by all the US big cities and it is carnage, but hey, let's not have them tell us that.

And fathers. No one tells us anything about the fathers who die every day from Family Court actions. That is hidden.

In Australia the Family Court cannot be reported on in the newspapers. Secrecy rules. Suicides are covered up. Fathers are dying every day and no one gets to hear.

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