Propaganda is laced with loaded keywords. For example, even in the title, the nun is labeled as “activist” and the prison is as “hellhole.” A journalist of the non-yellow variety would say that an 84 year old nun was sent to a federal prison for trespassing while protesting. It was not truth versus lack of truth that bothered me. Propaganda is the presentation of truth in a manner that conveys more than truth. But no, there is no prison devised by Man the equivalent of Hell. That part is untrue.
I generally agree with your above, however the quite properly vicious language in the piece was correct and appropriate. Her treatment is disgusting.
“An English magazine in 1898 noted, “All American journalism is not ‘yellow’, though all strictly ‘up-to-date’ yellow journalism is American!”[4]”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism [this was when the uppity “Americans” were trying to steal some European colonies]
Just a few out of context quotes. The full monty
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_monty_%28phrase%29 is at
nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/exclusive-nun-84-brooklyn-jail-hellhole-activism-article-1.2083481
“Her criminal odyssey began in 2012.”
[Not exactly correct. She also wasn’t a big fan of the School of the Americas [renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC)] and its graduates. School of the Americas Watch .
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_Americas_Watch ]
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The nun, … is now living in deplorable prison conditions, wearing a beige uniform and stuffed in with 111 other women into a single room at a federal prison right here in New York City.
she was there to bring to the attention of all Americans the dangers of unimpeded nuclear proliferation.
They crawled through the openings they had cut, then stood up and walked to the building — easily avoiding any electronic motion sensors and video cameras — without encountering a single guard.
Once they reached the highly enriched uranium-materials facility, “I wrapped some pillars in crime tape,” she told Daily News. “We splashed a vial of human blood on the wall.”
They spray-painted quotes from the Bible such as, “Swords into plowshares,” and banged on the building with hammers. Then they waited to be arrested. They waited some more.
Finally, “We saw a car with a guard slowly driving up. He stopped, and radioed to the police that protesters had gotten in.”
The women eat in the same unit in which they defecate, sleep, shower and wash.
And this is the United States of America, where “Real Housewife” and federal prisoner Teresa Giudice lives in luxury at the federal prison in Danbury, Conn., compared to the inhumane conditions Sister Megan and her cellmates are enduring in New York City.
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FCI Danbury : A low security federal correctional institution with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp.
bop.gov/locations/institutions/dan/
List and prices of items sold at the commissary in FCI Danbury
bop.gov/locations/institutions/dan/DAN_CommList.pdf ]
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Her crime? Breaking into a federal nuclear facility at age 82.
I got to meet the sister last week, months after applying for clearance, being denied and then finally getting approval. On a freezing cold night, I walked into the Metropolitan Detention Center and stored everything in a locker but a few one dollar bills allowed for the vending machines.
At 5 p.m., the official start of visiting hours, we were brought into a large, chilly room with armless chairs lined up in rows overseen by one guard. On one side was a sad “playroom” for the prisoners’ children, perhaps 8-by-10 feet, with nothing but a few dirty stuffed animals.
Visiting was supposed to be from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., but it wasn’t until 5:45 p.m. that prisoners were brought in.
She wore a prison-issued sweatsuit under her beige uniform to combat the cold in the visitor’s room.
“I don’t think I’m supposed to wear the sweatsuit, so they may not allow me to,” she said without a hint of self-pity.
Instead a guard came by to admonish her for moving her chair a few inches out of line in order to lean forward to look at me as we spoke. She immediately pushed it back.
She knew she’d go to prison for breaking into the nuclear facility as a protest, she told me, but believes it’s up to people without children who have nothing to lose to take the risks others can’t afford.
The Y-12 Nuclear Facility, which they breached in less than seven minutes, and which can theoretically be breached by real terrorists,
The facility didn’t bother to find or even fix the cuts in the fences for five months — until they were shown them by members of Plowshares.
After serving at another federal lockup, Sister Megan was transferred last year to the Brooklyn center, to the single floor opened to house the 111 female prisoners.
Sister Megan Rice is scheduled for release in November. She will be 85.
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but I don’t think “all her readers are idiots”.