# News That Does Not Get Reported **URL:** \ **Category:** The Happening World\ **Tags:** mainstream-media\ **Created:** [4 June 2024 15:51 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/news-that-does-not-get-reported/4684 "2024-06-04T15:51:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gavin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/439d5e/32.png) [@Gavin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Gavin)\ **Post date:** [4 June 2024 15:51 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/news-that-does-not-get-reported/4684/1 "2024-06-04T15:51:56Z")
Although the standard user of our _pravda_ media is unlikely to hear about it, it seems that Scott Ritter (a well-known critic of the regime’s proxy war in the Ukraine) was dragged off a plane and had his passport impounded. Land of the Free! [US confiscates former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter passport | Al Bawaba](https://www.albawaba.com/node/us-confiscates-former-un-weapons-1570652) This makes me wonder about Zelensky’s upcoming “peace conference” in sadly-fallen Switzerland. What if some of the 80 invited countries suggest that a good first step towards peace would be for “democratic” Ukraine to have … you know … _an actual election_? Even better, an election in which those millions of Ukrainians who voted with their feet are allowed to cast votes? Would we in the forlorn West ever hear about such a departure from the intended pro-war messaging? What if some of the countries suggest it would be a positive step for the Ukraine to reverse its policy of no negotiations with Russia? Would that kind of wrongspeak ever reach the ears of Western citizens? ---
**Author:** ![eggspurt](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/eggspurt/32/3686_2.png) [@eggspurt](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/eggspurt)\ **Post date:** [4 June 2024 15:56 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/news-that-does-not-get-reported/4684/2 "2024-06-04T15:56:45Z")
Good grief, about time the US cracked down on folks like this: > **[Scott Ritter | Vatnik Soup](https://vatniksoup.com/en/soups/91/)** > > In today’s #vatnik soup I’ll introduce an American arms inspector, convicted criminal and a pro-Russian propagandist, Scott Ritter (@RealScottRitter). He’s best known for his biased takes on the Russo-Ukrainian War, his propaganda work for RT and for... ---
**Author:** ![Gavin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/439d5e/32.png) [@Gavin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Gavin)\ **Post date:** [4 June 2024 18:59 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/news-that-does-not-get-reported/4684/3 "2024-06-04T18:59:19Z")
> [@eggspurt](#): > > Good grief, about time the US cracked down on folks like this: That was pretty much Stalin’s attitude too … although that may make you uncomfortable. Once a regime starts whacking people for advocating perspectives which the regime does not like, then the pretense of “democracy” and “free speech” is over. Then what is left for any true patriot to defend in the regime’s hollowed-out husk? ---
**Author:** ![eggspurt](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/eggspurt/32/3686_2.png) [@eggspurt](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/eggspurt)\ **Post date:** [4 June 2024 19:41 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/news-that-does-not-get-reported/4684/4 "2024-06-04T19:41:23Z")
There’s a wide window of reasonable options between the extremes: 1. the “progressive” attitude of let-all-criminals-free – and 2. Stalin’s kill-anyone-the-supreme-leader-dislikes ---
**Author:** ![Gavin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/439d5e/32.png) [@Gavin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Gavin)\ **Post date:** [4 June 2024 21:26 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/news-that-does-not-get-reported/4684/5 "2024-06-04T21:26:38Z")
I like the reasonable option of the First Amendment to the Constitution – “_Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech …_” But the Founding Fathers were innocents --they did not realize that today’s regime can abridge the freedom of speech without bothering to get Congress to make a law … and the sort of scum who get elected to Congress these days do not mind in the least. ---
**Author:** ![eggspurt](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/eggspurt/32/3686_2.png) [@eggspurt](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/eggspurt)\ **Post date:** [5 June 2024 11:09 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/news-that-does-not-get-reported/4684/6 "2024-06-05T11:09:02Z")
I don’t think the Founding Fathers were innocents, but the Constitution was written on top of the Bible, not independently of the Bible. And that’s what the Bible [says](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+26%3A3-12&version=ESV) on this matter: > _A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools._ What to do? ---
**Author:** ![BlackPrince](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/f0a364/32.png) [@BlackPrince](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/BlackPrince)\ **Post date:** [5 June 2024 12:13 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/news-that-does-not-get-reported/4684/7 "2024-06-05T12:13:44Z")
Who gets to decide who’s the horse, donkey and fool? ---
**Author:** ![eggspurt](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/eggspurt/32/3686_2.png) [@eggspurt](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/eggspurt)\ **Post date:** [5 June 2024 13:01 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/news-that-does-not-get-reported/4684/8 "2024-06-05T13:01:28Z")
Easy: the God. (but also history)