Active Duty Soldier censored on CNN for criticizing Iran war drumming

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Was this deliberate censorship

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  2. No

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  1. marbro

    marbro New Member

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    Just think before the Internet was prevalent folks actually believed everything CNN and fox told them. It's no wonder older people do not support Ron Paul as they do not spend time online researching but instead listen to news clowns on tv.

    The censorship CNN pulled worked But it also opened the eyes of younger voters and I feel confident that the status quo is in for a surprise in the future
     
  2. Herkdriver

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    I want to add also that the Corporal was not on active duty status when he showed up at this caucus in uniform...
    Regardless of that, as already alluded, you don't wear your military uniform whether active or reserves...at a political gathering.

    The visible neck tattoo looks out of regs also, but then again the Army seems to relax their standards.

    Bottom line, he had no business wearing the uniform at a political rally.
     
  3. MaxGeorgeDicksteinXXXI

    MaxGeorgeDicksteinXXXI New Member

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    And this has what to do with CNN censoring him? STOP HIJACKING THIS (*)(*)(*)(*) THREAD!!!!
     
  4. Herkdriver

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    The thread title is incorrect....
    I was pointing that out.

    He's not an active duty soldier.
     
  5. mdrobster

    mdrobster Well-Known Member

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    You will have to bve more specific about censoring, if you are claiming that won't air the interview, then all news outlets are guilty of censorship. Active dute personnel are not allowed, as per USMCJ, to be involved with politics.

    Maybe CNN helped in saving his backside with his superiors by not airing it.
     
  6. MaxGeorgeDicksteinXXXI

    MaxGeorgeDicksteinXXXI New Member

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    So they lied about the connection feed going dead? Will you join arms with me and help end this 1984 society we live in then?
     
  7. PatriotNews

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    Dude, it is not about censorship, CNN knows that this guy can be prosecuted, and so should this soldier, and most of all, Ron Paul, an USAF veteran should know better too!

     
  8. liberalminority

    liberalminority Well-Known Member

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    cnn is an affiliate of cnbc which is heavily economicly conservative or libertarian business network, they would certainly censor anything that would hurt their profit from the oil wars
     
  9. Herkdriver

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    CNN is owned by Time-Warner.

    Saying Time-Warner is conservative is like saying Rosie O'Donnell is hot.

    I have no idea why they would censor the guy, but he's got a criminal record..and will be reprimanded for being so political while in uniform...even if not on active duty...

    He also has ties to white power organizations, he lied about his number of deployments overseas and is not a model citizen by any stretch...

    I'm glad they censored him, and may he crawl back under the rock he came from...what a disgrace to the Army Reserves.
    Both in a total lack of military bearing and that stupid neck tattoo visible while in uniform.
     
  10. liberalminority

    liberalminority Well-Known Member

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    also we are under a "liberal" administration and already participated in an oil war in libya

    these oil wars are justified by the elites on both sides so that is why it was censored
     
  11. Herkdriver

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    Oh yeah the "Zionist" oil wars...

    Neo-Nazi rhetoric.

     
  12. mdrobster

    mdrobster Well-Known Member

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    If you were worried about censorship, you should have been speaking out against the Patriot Act, NSA wire-tapping, allowing police to seach cell without a warrant, et al.

    This one person's opinion is not censorship.
     
  13. liberalminority

    liberalminority Well-Known Member

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    was that to discredit his character?

    his statement was valid about the wars and did not need a censor unless the public would have an opinion against the interests of the national government, in this case it was interpreted by the station it would
     
  14. Herkdriver

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    I've read your posts over the months...you're about as credible as a turd.
    You post for shock value and little else...and you're not to be taken seriously.

    Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
     

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