Originally published June 15 2005
Recent Newsweek retraction forces new interpretations of the Constitution
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
A recent article from Sobran's discusses interpretation of the Constitution in the light of Newsweek's retracted story about Quran abuse.
"Our enemies are nearer the truth in their opinions of us than we are ourselves," wrote LaRochefoucauld.
The White House is upset about the Newsweek story by Michael Isikoff and John Barry that a copy of the Koran had been flushed down a toilet at the Guantanamo detention center.
After the report led to protests, rioting, and numerous deaths in the Muslim world, the magazine said it was "retracting" the story, whose source had "backed away" from his first account.
Most Muslims think of us as the enemy.
In wartime they don't wait for confirmation of rumors of even the worst atrocities.
Given what American interrogators have done in the past to provoke and insult Muslim prisoners, the Newsweek story seemed plausible even to Americans.
Now it's also demanding that Newsweek repair the damage it says the magazine has done.
It might start by (for example) telling us approximately how many Iraqi noncombatants have been killed in the war.
That's what giving "aid and comfort" to the enemy implies.
The press should publish only facts that support the government in its war effort.
It appears in the body of the unamended U.S. Constitution; unless carefully defined, it can easily become a rubber phrase.
We can wind up reaching conclusions as rabid as those of the aforementioned Post, which is so pro-war it seems willing to curtail press freedom, including its own.
It implies that the press should have some share in power, and it invites the three real branches of government to control it as they are supposed to check and balance each other.
The press isn't always a good thing, but it is sometimes a dangerous thing, and its danger is multiplied when it's controlled by the government.
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