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Fri Jun-17-05 07:00 AM
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Scoop: The Day The Downing Street Memos Went To The White House |
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From the scoop front page... http://scoop.co.nz/#ed... Scoop's record of yesterday's events... The Day The Downing Street Memos Went To The White HouseEarlier today Rep. John Conyers, 500,000 Americans & 122 Congressional Representatives sought Downing St Memo answers at the White House - they were met at a back entrance by an anonymous staff member. See… 500,000+ Americans, 122 Reps. Seek DSM Answers MORE: Greg Palast - Testimony On Downing Street MemosDemocracy Now - A Smoking Bullet in a Smoking GunA War Mother - Cindy Sheehan's Speech At The DSM Hearings Courtenay Barnett - The War And Occupation In Iraq Are Illegal For much much more see... Full Coverage: The Downing Street Memo - Part 2 & Full Coverage: The Downing Street Memo -Part 1 ... al
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Fri Jun-17-05 07:04 AM
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Fri Jun-17-05 07:06 AM
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2. I see 4 lights? Please 'splain. |
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Fri Jun-17-05 07:15 AM
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to an old Star Trek episode. Unfortunately, I just googled it and realized that the quote should be "There are four lights". Oops, so much for going on old memories.
Anyway, this is the episode where Captain Picard gets captured and is being tortured. The bad guy want Picard to say there are five lights when there are clearly only four. He lets him know the torture will not stop until he admits that there are five lights. At the end, Picard gets rescued and he stumbles out of his cell still insisting, "There are four lights".
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Fri Jun-17-05 07:17 AM
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I loved that episode too.:hi: and I was there yesterday at Lafayette Square.
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Fri Jun-17-05 07:24 AM
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Fri Jun-17-05 03:40 PM
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Fri Jun-17-05 07:29 AM
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6. Don't those WH guys look great behind bars? |
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Fri Jun-17-05 07:33 AM
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Fri Jun-17-05 09:21 AM
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8. You mean the '4 lights' reference? |
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Yes, more or less - Winston Smith say something like 'freedom is the right to say two and two is four'. When torturing him, O'Brien holds up four fingers and says "how many fingers?" and then "and if I say there are five?" He tortures Smith (including Smith saying "there are five", but O'Brien says "you don't really believe that, do you?" and tortures him a bit more - Orwell knew that people would say anything to get out of torture, even if Rumsfeld doesn't), until Smith is so broken that he really can't tell.
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Sat Jun-18-05 07:34 AM
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Thanks for the explaination.
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Fri Jun-17-05 09:24 AM
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9. Note who's behind the bars |
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Fri Jun-17-05 04:56 PM
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12. I Want To See A Crowd Shot |
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there's no pics of this event....grrrrr...
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