- Playing
- Extraordinary Renditions
- From
- Lorne Matalon
Some citizens in rural Smithfield County are unhappy. Citing documents revealed by leading newspapers in Germany and the US, the citizens claim a C-I-A-linked air ferry service is participating in the so-called extraordinary renditions of terror suspects.
The practice is offically denied, but by linking flight plans to the purported arrival dates of terror suspects in countries such as Pakistan Morocco and Afghanistan, it appears the citizens opposed to the practice may have reason to be alarmed.
This piece speaks with those who have admitted to trespassing the airport's property line---somethey concede is against the law--in order to highlight what they say is a far more severe violation.
More from Lorne Matalon
United States Congress and Military Aid for Mexico
(00:04:37)
From: Lorne Matalon
US Congress Approves Military Aid for Mexico
Mexico Debate; Is Mexico on the Verge of "Failed State" status
(00:05:27)
From: Lorne Matalon
Is Mexico on the Verge of "Failed State" status ?
Violence on the US Mexico Border
(00:06:43)
From: Lorne Matalon
Cartel Affect on El Paso, Texas and Juarez,Mexico
On Patrol with the Mexican Army
(00:05:28)
From: Lorne Matalon
Mexican Army Mission in Sinaloa and Durango States
Mexico's "Narco-War" Escalates
(00:05:46)
From: Lorne Matalon
Cartels and Army Square off in Tijuana
Venture Capital with a Conscience
(00:05:45)
From: Lorne Matalon
Venture Capital company restricts investment to help Environment
Emerald Wilderness; Panama's Darien Gap
(00:05:53)
From: Lorne Matalon
Panama Fears Colombian Designs on the The Pan-American Highway
Death of a Soldier: The Iraq Debate
(00:05:11)
From: Lorne Matalon
A soldier dies as Americans debate US operations there
Related Pieces
Piece Description
Some citizens in rural Smithfield County are unhappy. Citing documents revealed by leading newspapers in Germany and the US, the citizens claim a C-I-A-linked air ferry service is participating in the so-called extraordinary renditions of terror suspects. The practice is offically denied, but by linking flight plans to the purported arrival dates of terror suspects in countries such as Pakistan Morocco and Afghanistan, it appears the citizens opposed to the practice may have reason to be alarmed. This piece speaks with those who have admitted to trespassing the airport's property line---somethey concede is against the law--in order to highlight what they say is a far more severe violation.
Broadcast History
local Morning Edition on WUNC, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Of 1 purchasers of this piece...
- 1 also bought:
Small Stuff Democracy (00:07:24) - 1 also bought:
Christmas in the Trenches (00:05:51) - 1 also bought:
Sweet Phil from Sugar Hill (00:28:57) - 1 also bought:
Werner the Wormer (00:04:19) - 1 also bought:Papa's Place (00:03:51)
James Reiss
Posted on June 23, 2007 at 06:25 PM | Permalink
Review of Extraordinary Renditions
Don't believe a word of this outrageous, un-American piece. According to Lorne Matalon and WUNC, both long known for their subversive activities, the rural Smithfield County Airport in Johnston City, NC is an undercover hub for the process they refer to as "extraordinary renditions." As if the highly respected private enterprise, AeroContractors, could be a ferry service for terrorism suspects!
The very idea that our upstanding Bush administration condones kidnapping human beings and flying them to such countries as Pakistan and Morocco to be tortured is not only ridiculous; it is unpatriotic, ungodly, and possibly treasonable.
As Stephen Grey suggested in his recent book, "Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program," there is neither a jot nor a tittle of evidence that our government is in any way implicated in such heinous crimes as Matalon's piece describes. Indeed, we have embarked upon a war to defend freedom and the Uniform Code of Military Justice, not to abrogate them.
Program directors eager to steer clear of controversy, let alone falsity, should avoid this piece. Whereas a few misguided members of our lunatic fringe contend that the United States is capable of "extraordinary renditions," sensible citizens know that our leaders are extraordinarily upstanding individuals incapable of anything but sweetness and light.
One wacko interviewee here, who has been arrested for trespassing on airport property, has the audacity to say, "Our country has lost its soul"! If litigious Germans and Italians are trying to press charges against our White House for "extraordinary renditions," we Americans must never cave and believe the Euro-trash myths of neo-Fascist agitators.
No, my fellow Americans and PRXers, we must stand behind our upstanding commander-in-chief and all his minions. We must render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's -- and reject the untruth that we fly bad guys to distant locales overseas. How much easier it is, after all, to ship them to Gitmo!