China, The United States, The Media, and "Treason".....

[Totally Committed]

Today, China passed a slate of laws that would prevent the Press from reporting "Instant Events" without government authroization. What this means is that the government decides what the news media is allowed to report and what it isn't on a case-by-case basis, in order to manage its image abroad. ( http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/world/asia/26cnd-clampdown.html?hp&ex=1151380800&en=70a86441e8ae66b0&ei=5094&partner=homepage ) These laws guarantee the Chinese media can be prosecuted for so much as reporting on a car accident without clearing it with the government first.

Will someone please tell me how that is any different than Bush and his government deciding what the newspapers (NYT) can and cannot print about "national security" matters. ( http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/washington/26cnd-prexy.html?hp&ex=1151380800&en=f041c93d1f1731c4&ei=5094&partner=homepage ) and if that reporting can be an "act of treason"?

If starting a war based on a lie isn't treason... if spying on millions of Americans without a warrant isn't treason... Why is reporting the truth to the American people "treason"?

I never thought I'd see the day when the United states of America could be so easily compared to China -- arguably the most repressive government on the face of the earth -- with even a glimmer of similarity.

TC

[Vincardog]

1. Note to you: We have not lived in your fathers "America" since the coup

out 2000. When the Neocons illegally and unconstitutionally seized power.