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Bush Administration Manipulates Lincoln Memorial Video at Behest of Far
Right
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=19121
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Effort Wastes Taxpayer Dollars and May Bring Summer Closure of Memorial
Exhibits
The National Park Service has bought footage of President George W. Bush,
his father, pro-Iraq War demonstrations and anti-gun control rallies from
news organizations for inclusion in a video to be displayed at the Lincoln
Memorial, according to documents obtained by People For the American Way
Foundation (PFAWF) and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
(PEER).
The two groups obtained hundreds of pages of records through a lawsuit they
filed this past January under the Freedom of Information Act. The
surrendered records contain thousands of redactions; in many cases whole
pages are blacked out. While the groups are negotiating for additional
disclosures as part of an ongoing suit, the excerpts released so far give a
compelling glimpse of how much time and energy the Bush administration has
expended in an effort to censor brief clips of footage from gay rights,
reproductive rights and anti-war demonstrations at the Lincoln Memorial
from an educational eight-minute video that has been shown at the memorial
since 1994 (view it here).
http://wid.ap.org/inv/lincoln.html
The groups filed their FOIA request in October 2003 after being alerted
that Park Service officials planned to develop a “more balanced” version of
the videotape to satisfy the objections of right wing organizations. The
right wing organizations reportedly complained that brief segments of
footage showing gay rights, reproductive rights, and anti-Vietnam War
demonstrations implied that “Lincoln would have supported homosexual and
abortion ‘rights’ as well as feminism.” The documents show that the Bush
administration has acted on their demands, having authorized over $200,000
for video acquisition, editing, and production.
In one email, a Park Service official writes “the Director just stopped in
to relay that Judge Manson [the Assistant Interior Secretary] wanted to
move quickly on the recommendations in the Video paper.” In another email
from this January, an official writes that he has been ordered to “fast
track” work on the Lincoln Memorial, causing other scheduled projects to be
delayed.
The documents also show that in order to revise the video, the Park Service
paid thousands to purchase additional footage. Though the agency redacted
much of the identifying information, the unredacted portions indicate that
the footage includes conservative events and both President Bush and his
father. The Park Service has not disclosed the content of the new video,
the instructions given for the revisions or who approved the final product.
“I had not realized the extent to which the Lincoln Memorial exhibits had
turned into a vanity project for the Bush administration,” added PEER
Executive Director Jeff Ruch, noting that high school students from around
the country put the current video together with no input by political
appointees. “No expense is being spared to erase even fleeting images of
feminists, war protestors and gays from display as part of our nation’s
history.”
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The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the US and a couple from overseas as well]
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respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
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page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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| User: "Brian E. Clark" |
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| Title: Re: Bush Administration Manipulates Lincoln Memorial Video at Behest of Far Right |
10 Apr 2006 12:07:55 PM |
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In article <4sak32d28ml5c7vohsj2s3eutjhv2onerv@4ax.com>,
said...
Bush Administration Manipulates Lincoln Memorial Video at
Behest of Far Right
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=19121
"Those who control the past, control the future; Those who
control the future, control the present; Those who control the
present, control the past."
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Brian E. Clark
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| User: "Gray Shockley" |
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| Title: Re: Bush Administration Manipulates Lincoln Memorial Video at Behest of Far Right |
11 Apr 2006 01:52:33 AM |
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On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 04:56:18 -0500, wrote
(in article <4sak32d28ml5c7vohsj2s3eutjhv2onerv@4ax.com>):
“I had not realized the extent to which the Lincoln Memorial exhibits had
turned into a vanity project for the Bush administration,” added PEER
Executive Director Jeff Ruch, noting that high school students from around
the country put the current video together with no input by political
appointees. “No expense is being spared to erase even fleeting images of
feminists, war protestors and gays from display as part of our nation’s
history.”
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According to many of Bush's sycophants, President Clinton wasn't impeached
for a blow-job but for lying to the American people.
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