America Loves Gitmo! (Gallup Poll)

by: Jacob Freeze

Tue Jun 02, 2009 at 09:39

Hot off the wire from Gannett News Service, June 2, 2009...

Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to closing the detention center for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay and moving some of the detainees to prisons on U.S. soil, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds.
By more than 2-1, those surveyed say Guantanamo shouldn't be closed. By more than 3-1, they oppose moving some of the accused terrorists housed there to prisons in their own states.
In the survey, Americans were inclined to accept the argument by Cheney and former president George W. Bush that the detention center had made the U.S. safer. By 40 percent-18 percent, they said the prison had strengthened national security rather than weakened it.

Power to the people!

"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer!"

And in other news...

"According to Deadline Scotland, Glasgow video game company T-Enterprise has hired Moazzam Begg, a former inmate at Guantanamo Bay, as a consultant on upcoming video game Rendition: Guantanamo, a title set in the infamous U.S. prison camp."

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America Loves Gitmo! (Gallup Poll) | 4 comments

In this case (4.00 / 1)

Does the opinion of the people matter?

Things You Don't Talk About in Polite Company: Religion, Politics, the Occasional Intersection of Both

by: Anthony de Jesus @ Tue Jun 02, 2009 at 13:35:38 PM CDT

Good question! (4.00 / 2)

I think public opinion always matters, but I also think that as long as the flow of information in the United States is dominated by the right-wing billionaires who own most of the media, public opinion is likely to be ridiculously distorted by propaganda.

That's why I keep blogging about subjects like internet neutrality, and Obama's miserable nomination of Mignon Clyburn to the FCC.

If the progressive blogosphere weren't collectively stupid, every other blog on it would be about breaking up the media conglomerates, because until those monstrosities are destroyed, they will inevitably drown out every progressive voice, and all of us together.

by: Jacob Freeze @ Tue Jun 02, 2009 at 17:30:12 PM CDT

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Public opinion has always been distorted (0.00 / 0)

I'd argue that the left has gotten bad at propaganda because it has relied to much on a myth of a neutral media. We need more progressives who actually think of themselves as propagandists.

I've been contemplating a diary on the theory of democracy and what to do when the democratic process leads to the wrong outcomes because diaries like this seem to touch on the edges of some philosophical ideas I've been working through.

Things You Don't Talk About in Polite Company: Religion, Politics, the Occasional Intersection of Both

by: Anthony de Jesus @ Tue Jun 02, 2009 at 19:27:25 PM CDT

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Write it! (0.00 / 0)

...a diary on the theory of democracy and what to do when the democratic process leads to the wrong outcomes...

It would be refreshing for someone besides Paul Rosenberg to try out a few bigger ideas on Open Left.

(But I still have to give Rosenberg some credit for trying. And no disrespect to Chris Bowers, who's brilliant with the nuts-and-bolts of the political process.)

Even if it takes me a while to find your diary, I'll comment extensively, and then you can repost after due consideration of my many cogent qualifications.

Harharharhar!!!

But seriously...

I would like to see what's bubbling around in the back of your brain.

by: Jacob Freeze @ Tue Jun 02, 2009 at 21:39:00 PM CDT

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