Congressmen Seek To Lift Propaganda Ban

[robert l. bentham]

An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into the latest defense authorization bill, BuzzFeed has learned.
The amendment would “strike the current ban on domestic dissemination” of propaganda material produced by the State Department and the Pentagon, according to the summary of the law at the House Rules Committee's official website.
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The defense bill passed the House Friday afternoon.

http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=150568

the unpatriotic pieces of crap that inserted this are:

Rep. Mac Thornberry from Texas
Rep. Adam Smith from Washington State

 

[cecilia]

no surprise

http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/155443/Why_Do_Conservatives_Hate_Freedom?/?page=entire

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

The amendment would “strike the current ban on domestic dissemination” of propaganda material produced by the State Department and the Pentagon,...

That's just a formality really. Four ten years the Pentagon and State Department (and the neo-cons in the previous administration) worked together with TV (Fox, of course, but also CNN and MSNBC - in fact just about everybody played along) to disseminate state propaganda. All the generals and officials who gave their opinions were all carefully selected and coached to deliver the right talking points.

In fact it goes back far beyond 2000. Remember the first Gulf War and the incubator babies story which turned out to be unsubstantiated and a part of a propaganda campaign run by PR company Hill & Knowlton.

I am a little confused about Adam Smith putting his name on that. I thought he was one of the guys that tried to get the NDAA amended so as to exclude indefinite detention.