Gonzo times: As well as Walter Cronkite and Peter Carey talking about
US journalism in the wake of 9-11 on Australian radio this morning, the great
Hunter S Thompson: 'It’s sort of a herd mentality, a lemming-like mentality.
If you don’t go with the flow you’re anti-American and therefore a suspect.
And we’ve seen this before, these patriotic frenzies. It’s very convenient having
an undeclared war that you can call a war and impose military tribunals and
wartime security and we have these generals telling us that this war’s going
to go on for a long, long time. Maybe not so much the generals now, the generals
are a little afraid of Iraq, a little worried about it, but it’s the civilians
in the White House, the gang of thieving, just lobbyists for the military industrial
complex, who are running the White House, and to be against them is to be patriotic,
then hell, call me a traitor.' [ABC];
[Realplayer
- full interview].
