Thursday, January 21, 2010

Waking Up Orwell suffers a "cut mic"

BTC - Typically the joy of Thursday mornings comes with the radio magazine piece we do called, Waking Up Orwell. This week's guest, William Lewis, had piles of documented dirt and background on the American intelligence machinery. His documentaries are intense and informative.

However - the broadcast outputs were mysteriously cut shortly after the intro. Neither myself or William could be heard over BlogTalkRadio.com. The show ran for 60 minutes, but less than 5 minutes were broadcasted live over the internet last Thursday.

BeatTheChip.org recently posted 2 pieces on Cass Sunstein declaring open season on "conspiracy theorists" as qualified intelligence targets. This is where it get's complicated. "Conspiracy" is a government term which is being twisted to sonoymously dispose of another word - dissent.

Think for yourself.

The U.S. government's universal targeting on dissent comes down to documenting their wrongdoings. For example, a Philadelphia reporter was arrested for photographing a GITMO protest and charged with "criminal conspiracy". Her photos were confiscated. Here's the good news - the charges were proven to be bogus and they were dropped. However "conspiracy" is now being redefined with treasonous meaning against The Establishment.

Below is the rest of the show after we aired a short clip from an interview with Aaron Russo. I'll be the first to admit, if the government wants me to stop doing something that isn't illegal and is in the range of my Bill of Rights - I'm going to test it.

William Lewis, whose mic is routinely cut during interviews to promote his films, didn't tell me that he was doing his own recording of the program. This episode will go down in Waking Up Orwell's history as sort of a media actvism bootleg.

WAKING UP ORWELL featuring Filmaker William Lewis

The reasons why my mic was cut are currently ascribed to "technical glitches" on behalf of BlogTalkRadio.com. We sincerely hope that is all that it was.


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