Wow, even archive.org have removed access to The Guardian's translation of bin Laden's “Letter to America”. I thought they had only one job and it was _the exact opposite_ of that.
Here's one of the few journalists with a spine making the case for why you should be allowed to read it:
@josemanuel it's somewhat ironic that the same people will absolutely encourage people to read books that the right wing wants to ban from schools. i mean, if you're only against censoring books that you like, you're not really against censorship. it's nonsense.
@thor The hypocrisy of The Guardian (and everyone else to a degree) is that they have hosted that letter for more than twenty years, but removed it just when people became interested in it, which proves that they only had it there for virtue-signalling points.
@josemanuel The fear is that people will realise there is more to world politics than the 'good guys' and official enemies.
It's not about people having sympathy with terrorists. It's about maintaining the control over people's minds and people's complicity so the west can get away with their war crimes.
I will add for clarification, non-western countries also commit war crimes but we are talking about western media and western audiences.
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@josemanuel archive.org pretty frequently deletes things now.
@bonifartius Yeah, they've been fucking trash for years now.
By the way, in this video, or maybe in another one, Glenn points out that one of the justifications bin Laden gives in the letter for 9/11 attacks (i.e., that, because the US have free elections, everyone was responsible for the actions of their government and that made them an acceptable target) is the same one the Israeli government uses for the genocide in Gaza (i.e., that a part of the population, not even a majority, voted for Hamas in 2005, so they're all Hamas and that's why they should all be blown to smithereens, children and women included).