Greg Gets AmBushed

Greg Palast is a muckraking journalist and an American who had to flee to Britain long ago. He now has his work actually published by The Guardian. In the U.S., he is largely censored. It was Palast that broke the election theft of 2000 by Jeb Bush and ChoicePoint months before anyone over here on the other side of the pond would touch it. He recently uncovered the theft of Mexico's election, again involving ChoicePoint, which the Bush-friendly media have ignored with few exceptions. Greg has been a great source of real news for Americans. But now the administration has caught on.

In an sardonic twist of fate, Palast has been forced to report on his own problems that, not-so-coincidentally, involve the Bush administration, because the corpo-media won't touch it. It seems Palast has been charged with a crime for videotaping actual conditions in the Big Easy for Democracy Now! See, the bushies don't like poor black people, especially when they are in the way of nice, white developments....uh, developers who donate money to campaigns. So they took all the displaced African-Americans and stuck them in trailer parks surrounded by barbed-wire. Yup. Barbed-wire! Greg and his producer, Matt Pascarella, have been charged, not for trespassing, not for protesting, not for spitting on the sidewalk, but for filming a "critical national security structure." Yep, black people who did nothing but escape death by drowning are put in a pseudo-concentration camp and when a reporter, notorious for telling the truth, tries to film it, they charge him with endangering national security.

The Land of the Free?