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Sunday, February 14, 2010
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Autopsy: FBI Agents Shot Detroit Imam 21 Times.
Local Muslim leaders have questioned if authorities are trying to cover up facts surrounding his death. The autopsy report was finally released Monday after a lengthy delay. It shows Abdullah died from twenty-one gunshot wounds and was found with his wrists handcuffed behind his back. House Judiciary Chair John Conyers is expected to join a coalition of civil rights and Muslim groups today to call for a Justice Department probe.
More on this case at Uhuru News
We ALL Work for The Feds, They Just Don't Work For Us.
My response to this post on facebook:
We ALL work for the feds: it's called income tax. Our money allows President O-Bomb-Yah to do things like this:
"Intelligence Chief Confirms US Can Assassinate Americans Abroad. Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair has confirmed US forces are authorized to kill US citizens abroad.
Speaking before the House Intelligence Committee, Blair acknowledged President Obama is continuing a Bush-era policy authorizing the killing of US citizens if they’re considered a terrorist threat to the United States. In response, Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald wrote the assassination policy gives President Obama “the power to impose death sentences on his own citizens without any charges or trial.”
-More @ democracynow.org
We ALL work for the feds: it's called income tax. Our money allows President O-Bomb-Yah to do things like this:
"Intelligence Chief Confirms US Can Assassinate Americans Abroad. Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair has confirmed US forces are authorized to kill US citizens abroad.
Speaking before the House Intelligence Committee, Blair acknowledged President Obama is continuing a Bush-era policy authorizing the killing of US citizens if they’re considered a terrorist threat to the United States. In response, Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald wrote the assassination policy gives President Obama “the power to impose death sentences on his own citizens without any charges or trial.”
-More @ democracynow.org
Monday, February 1, 2010
De-segregation or National Liberation?
See article here. My reply to the facebook commentary on it is below.
Segregation wasn't necessarily 'destroyed'. 'Reduced' and/or 'discouraged' might be more accurate. Today, it is done largely via credit scoring, speculation on property values (including use of Census data), school re-districting, electoral re-districting and as was claimed by a recent UW study (for what its worth), by unconscious, learned behaviors.
Occasionally, it is done Jim Crow style, as was the case in Philly where a public pool refused to allow a group of black youth to swim there, but this is rare, since it is usually viewed as disruptive to commerce. It is an easier sell to a judge, jury, or the public (and completely legal) to accuse someone of shoplifting, vandalism, theft, drug dealing, 'disorderly conduct', tresspassing, or 'noise distrubance' and then ban them from a public or private area on that basis, which can be done even if no evidence is ever presented and no charges are ever filed.
In someways, it is a non-issue when sat down (figuritively) next to issues such as 'reparations' and 'the right to self-determination'. Both are codified in international law, but both are considered 'non-issues' since many black people have accepted our colonized position (and the above-mentioned modus operendi of the state and its supporters; 'liberal' and 'conservative'), as it has been strengthened by integration and affirmative action: aka the 'carrot'. The 'stick' was COINTELPRO.
And now, affirmative action has been largely rescended in most states in both the private and public sector, including this one!
Never lose sight of the fact that the 'professional', church-based leadership that eventually took control of this movement (specifically SCLC) were fundementally pro-imperialist and just wanted a bigger piece of the loot and all the privileges amerikka offered to its settler population. It is no mystery as to why Kennedy, Johnson, and later Nixon supported this neo-colonial [mis]leadership. Take careful note that King was assassinated shortly after he spoke out against the war in Vietnam and the looting that was going on there by amerikkkan companies.
There is a qualitative difference between an imperialist nation allowing limited access to social, political, and economic opportunities, which in fact helps strengthen that imperialist nation more than it strengthens those it has granted greater access to; and actually creating social, political, and economic opportunities that not only do NOT need the imperialist nation's premission to exist, but that also in fact DESTROYS that imperialist nation!
Segregation wasn't necessarily 'destroyed'. 'Reduced' and/or 'discouraged' might be more accurate. Today, it is done largely via credit scoring, speculation on property values (including use of Census data), school re-districting, electoral re-districting and as was claimed by a recent UW study (for what its worth), by unconscious, learned behaviors.
Occasionally, it is done Jim Crow style, as was the case in Philly where a public pool refused to allow a group of black youth to swim there, but this is rare, since it is usually viewed as disruptive to commerce. It is an easier sell to a judge, jury, or the public (and completely legal) to accuse someone of shoplifting, vandalism, theft, drug dealing, 'disorderly conduct', tresspassing, or 'noise distrubance' and then ban them from a public or private area on that basis, which can be done even if no evidence is ever presented and no charges are ever filed.
In someways, it is a non-issue when sat down (figuritively) next to issues such as 'reparations' and 'the right to self-determination'. Both are codified in international law, but both are considered 'non-issues' since many black people have accepted our colonized position (and the above-mentioned modus operendi of the state and its supporters; 'liberal' and 'conservative'), as it has been strengthened by integration and affirmative action: aka the 'carrot'. The 'stick' was COINTELPRO.
And now, affirmative action has been largely rescended in most states in both the private and public sector, including this one!
Never lose sight of the fact that the 'professional', church-based leadership that eventually took control of this movement (specifically SCLC) were fundementally pro-imperialist and just wanted a bigger piece of the loot and all the privileges amerikka offered to its settler population. It is no mystery as to why Kennedy, Johnson, and later Nixon supported this neo-colonial [mis]leadership. Take careful note that King was assassinated shortly after he spoke out against the war in Vietnam and the looting that was going on there by amerikkkan companies.
There is a qualitative difference between an imperialist nation allowing limited access to social, political, and economic opportunities, which in fact helps strengthen that imperialist nation more than it strengthens those it has granted greater access to; and actually creating social, political, and economic opportunities that not only do NOT need the imperialist nation's premission to exist, but that also in fact DESTROYS that imperialist nation!
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