Times, an obvious place for this story I d appear, and came up
empty. I did the same at CNN.com. The Washington Bost,
ABCNews.com and several other news outlets, and f ound
nothing.
Chomsky's proof
Dev.
Hults
By William Rivers Pitt
The United States is unusual among the industrial
democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological
control— 'indoctrination,’ we might say— exercised
through the mass media. — Noam Chomsky
Editorial
June 25.2001 —In the early morning hours of Thursday, June
22, 2001, a man named Jared T. Bozydaj took to the streets of
New Paltz, New York, with an Intrac Arms 7 62 semi
automatic assault rifle He fired pointedly at police officers,
wounding one officer named Jeffery Quiepo in the arm The
shooting went on for several hours before Bozydaj was
disarmed and arrested Bozydaj was described as being highly
upset by the execution of Timothy McVeigh He apparently
had decided to take revenge in McVeigh's name on the police,
whom Bozydaj referred to as "control mechanisms for the
government" Weapons and literature in his apartment
indicated that Bozydaj had been planning this attack for some
time
New Paltz is a small community near the Hudson
River about an hour north of New York City. The downtown
district is filled with small stores, as well as a number o f bars
that cater to the students o f the State University o f New York
(SUNY) New Paltz, the campus o f which is only a few blocks
away from where this shooting occurred The best word to
describe the place is 'quaint ’
My girlfriend was bom and raised near this town. I
have spent many drunken hours with her in the bars that now
bear the bullet holes from Bozydaj's rampage My girlfriend's
parents report that much o f downtown New Paltz is roped off
with yellow police tape today One can see quite clearly the
damage done by Bozydaj's assault rifle, and the police believe
it is a miracle that no one was killed One SUNY student
reported that eight bullets passed through her bedroom wall,
and said that she would have been shot in the head if her
radiator had not deflected the rounds. 1 discovered this story
on the forums o f DemocraticUnderground com, where
someone had posted it as a topic for discussion about
McVeigh-oriented violence. 1 forwarded the link, a story from
the Zwirc news service, to my girlfriend, for obvious reasons.
She called her parents and got the story from the ground. The
local New Paltz. paper, the Times-Herald Record, covered the
shooting in detail, and she sent me the link to their story
The next day, my girlfriend called me. "I haven't seen
this story in any o f the newspapers,” she said "It wasn't on
CNN or Peter Jennings last night. Why do you think they
aren't reporting this? Some guy shot up my town, and shot a
cop. That's news, isn't it?" I am a news junkie, and had myself
noticed that this interesting and disturbing story had not
appeared anywhere in the national news media. Using the
words "New Paltz" and "Bozydaj," I searched The New York
Now & Then
In our Oxford dictionary ‘treason’ is defined as betrayal.
The current administration is guilty of betrayal of the people of this
country and the subvening of the Constitution of the United States.
This is not a charge we make lightly, but one that we believe will
be proven correct in time. We recall the last president who
committed treason and how shtxkcd and dismayed we were when
the truth was made public. No, we are not speaking of Mr. Clinton
and his extramarital affair, but of Mr. Nixon and his wholesale
gutting of the Constitution and blatant breaking of the laws of the
land to seize and hold power. Though we were never fond of Mr.
Nixon we were nonetheless shocked by the enormity of his crimes
We are equally shocked, as more information has become
available, about the current administration’s seizing and exercising
of power. They have betrayed the very premises on which this
democracy was founded: The premise of ‘one man, one vote.’
The premise of checks and balances and the separation o f power
between the exec utive, legislative and judicial branches of
government. The premise o f the separation of church and stale.
And the most precious, the premise that governments exist to serve
the needs of the governed.
This administration did with malice aforethought
manipulate and subvert the election process in Florida and several
other states. This administration did apply intimidation and
bribery to subvert and manipulate the Supreme Court of the United
States. This administration likewise used the same tools on the
United States Congress. This administration has accepted bribes
from resource based corporations in return for allowing the
exploitation and destruction o f the lands the people hold in
common. This administration has accepted bribes from the
weapons industry in return for the canceling of arms treaties and
threatening what little peace we have. This administration
betrayed the people of this country for raw personal power. Yes,
and the Democrats tried to, but failed. Perhaps their lust for power
is not as great, or their skills are not as honed. We would like to
think it is because they have more respect for the law, but sec scant
evidence o f that.
But what are the people to do if none dare call it treason?
The politicians, the media, the corporations dare not call it treason.
But by any definition of the word it most certainly is. After the
Watergate hearings and the impeachment of Mr. Nixon, and finally
his resignation, we were told that this process proved that wc were
not a nation of men but a nation of laws, and the supreme law
of the land is the Constitution. Mr. Nixon betrayed the very premise
of that law. We suggest that this administration is equally guilty and
should be brought to the bar of justice if this democracy is to survive.
We suggest that resources, time and energy to conduct an
investigation of treason be allocated, equal to the amount allocated for
the investigation of peijury during the last administration. Because
treason should never prosper.
Thanks, we feel better now.
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A man, motivated by the execution o f Timothy
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directed exclusively at cops in a small New York town with a
sophisticated assault rifle He blew a hole in a cop, and shot
hell out of*every storefront in the vicinity He nearly put a
bullet through the head o f a sleeping college student
Somehow, this was not deemed newsworthy by virtually every
major news outlet in America, including the Times o f New
York, the state where this shooting took place
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Paris, France: Shakespeare A Cle
B righton, England: The Public House Bookstore
Why?
An immediate explanation is that the editors of these
news sources were acting out of a sense of responsibility. For
most Americans, the name Timothy McVeigh is synonymous
with pure evil. It is likely that a decision was reached among
the purveyors of our information that nothing should be
published or broadcast that will give ear to those who consider
McVeigh a martyred hero The fear, I suppose, is that if
enough of these kinds o f stories get out, some o f our militia-
oriented citizenry will think the Revolution is finally at hand,
and take to the streets o f their own small burgs with rifles at
the ready
This kind of quiet censorship, however, raises some
disturbing questions. If unreported McVeigh-motivated
shootings like this are happening in New Paltz, where I am
lucky enough to have eyes on the ground, where else are they
happening, and going unreported? I have no friends in Akron,
Butte, Silver Springs, Kissimmee, El Paso, or Needles Where
else in America is violence like this breaking loose9
Why are we not being told of it?
What else is being withheld?
Noted linguist Noam Chomsky has observed many
times that the national media is not the information-disbursing
entity created by our love for the First Amendment o f the
Constitution Rather, the national media is the propaganda
wing o f the status quo The national media tells us things in a
certain way to keep our eyes on the ground, and to keep us
from questioning power too closely When no other avenue is
available to control the masses, the national media simply
refuses to inform us at all We have seen this phenomenon
many times in many places How many o f us truly know the
level o f poverty that exists in America? How many o f us know
the toll our sanctions in Iraq have taken on the civilian
populace o f that country? How many o f us know the number
o f dead that were left at the hands o f CLA-trained and armed
murderers in Nicaragua during the Reagan administration?
How many o f us truly know the extent to which corporations
run the government o f this country?
Were we told all the facts in unpolished newspaper
prose, a howl o f outrage the likes o f which has never before
been heard would rise from the throat o f the American
populace This, more than anything, is the reason we are left in
our uninformed state o f bliss Were we to be truly informed by
the media outlets, so much would change so fast, and so many
o f those who hold the power and the purse strings would be
run out o f town on a rail, that the very nature o f power in this
country would be shattered forever. Those who sup on the teat
o f the status quo want nothing to do with this. Ergo, we are
left in the dark.
Such a condition is beyond the concepts o f Left or
Right. Political affiliation is mere window-dressing in the high
apartments o f true power in America. One need only look at
the corporate connections of Gore and Bush, our last two
presidential challengers, to know that party politics doesn't
matter a damn at the end o f the day Everything boils down to
the central question: who rules?
Not us, friends. Not when we arc kept safe and
uninformed. It is better this way, when the tree-shakers are
kept out o f the loop
The fact that Mr. Bozydaj's shooting rampage went
completely unreported by the national news media, an entity
entrusted with informing this vast nation about the truths that
happen within its borders, should shake your confidence in
what we are told to its foundations I don't care for Mr
Bozydaj's views, and I despise anyone who would attack
police officers with an assault rifle But, simply put, he
happened We deserve to know. If the news media can report
on a consensual relationship between adults for two years,
they can report on Mr. Bozydaj If the news media can report
on every school shooting, despite the real danger o f inciting
copycat outrages, they can report on Mr Bozydaj. And if they
can report the actions o f Mr Bozydaj, they can certainly
report other stories, as well
We deserve to know who runs this country.
We deserve to know where we are at war, and who is
dying
We deserve to know where we have been at war, and
whom we killed.
We deserve to know who is starving in our country,
and why.
We deserve to know what happened in Florida.
We deserve to know many things we are never told
of, or are lied to about.
When we are not told, we are deprived of the right
and ability to determine the course of this country, as is our
purpose as citizens. Wc all know the dangers of making
uninformed decisions, having done so to our woe many times
in our daily lives.
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