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Thursday, September 04, 2003

Now It's Your Turn
History is littered with the guilty consciences of those who chose to remain silent. It is time to speak out.

Sixty-four summers ago, when Hitler fabricated Polish provocations in his attempt to justify Germany’s invasion of Poland, there was not a peep out of senior German officials. Happily, in today’s Germany the imperative of truth-telling no longer takes a back seat to ingrained docility and knee-jerk deference to the perceived dictates of "homeland security." The most telling recent sign of this comes in a recent edition of Die Zeit, Germany’s highly respected weekly newspaper. The story, by Jochen Bittner, holds lessons for us all.
Die Zeit’s report leaves in tatters the "evidence" cited by Secretary of State Colin Powell and other administration spokesmen as the strongest proof that Iraq was using mobile trailers as laboratories to produce material for biological weapons.

· German Intelligence on Powell’s "Solid" Sources [Tom Paine]
Memories, like waratahs, have a way of coming home to seed...
· Australian Underground Intelligence on Carr’s Power Project Waratah Media Rape Management [SMH]
· Barbarians @ Kulturkampf: Reputation Rape [ SMH: Sheehan]