Censorship History

Although censorship does exist to some degree in every country, it is worse in some than in others. "A government which censors the information available to its people, other than in a state of national emergency (e.g., a sudden attack by a hostile military force) is a government which seeks to keep the people in a state of ignorance, and should not complain if the people have no loyalty to it"(<www.serendipity.li/cda.html>).

A summary of James Bacque's intro to "Chapter 8 of Crimes and Mercies"

James Bacque was a writer and for most of his life he had "believed in the democratic system". He later realized that during World War 2 America had commited atrocities in Europe under the leadership of Eisenhower. Then he went to interview a star reporter for the "New York Times" who wrote during this period. His name was Drew Middleton and he had claimed to have visited a prison camp and came back and said everything was good there. Bacque exposed him confronting him with the fact that the US had been killing thousands. Middleton said, 'I'm not surprised that you were able to dig up some bad things from that time.' He then admitted to never actually visiting the prison camp. "What Middleton told me basically was that, yes, he had lied in 1945 and no, it did not matter to him or the New York Times if I exposed this." This was when Bacque realized the true extent of the media, especially the "New York Times", to cover the truth and keep America ignorant to one of the worst atrocities it's comiited this century.