On the Ray McGovern affair

Unworthy Victim: Ray McGovern in the Propaganda Model
Michael McGehee

Can you just imagine how our government and media would be acting if while giving a speech condemning the arrest and brutalization of protesters and stifling of speech by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez or North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Il or Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that a protester silently protesting them by standing up, turning their back on them and wearing a shirt that said “[enter noun here] for Peace” was nabbed by police and other officers in civilian clothes, dragged away kicking and screaming only to be found later jailed, beaten, bloody and bruised?

They would have a field day, especially if that official from an enemy state never paused while giving their unctuous speech. That would be the icing on the cake.

But it happened in Washington, DC on February 15, 2011 while Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made such a speech and a protester wearing a “Veterans for Peace” shirt was arrested and accosted.

The protester turned out to be none other than Ray McGovern, veteran Army officer, former CIA analyst who was an intelligence briefer for former President Ronald Reagan and who put together the Presidential Daily Briefs for the first President Bush, and now anti-war/pro-justice activist.
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