Still bull shit

'Jena 6' Teen Released on Bail

they shouldn't have to pay $45,000. what is happening to the white kids who hung nooses and threatened someone with a shotgun? what is the Justice Department doing in D.C. and Louisiana? What is the government ever doing?

Let us seek answers.

SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NRF7dTafPu0

Props to my man Aaron Green for sharing this brilliant piece with us. He's from Texas.

The Corporation

Everyone please watch this documentary. It is truly eye-opening and life-changing. It is an audio visual bible. Their website: http://www.thecorporation.com/

Synopsis: Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.
Synopsis written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)

Blackwater Resumes Operations

Four days after:

"Iraqi interior ministry investigation has found that Blackwater was "100% guilty" of the incident in which 11 Iraqi civilians were killed

BLACKWATER USA FACTS Founded in 1997 by a former US Navy Seal Headquarters in North Carolina One of at least 28 private security companies in Iraq Employs 744 US citizens, 231 third-country nationals, and 12 Iraqis to protect US state department in Iraq Provided protection for former CPA head Paul Bremer Four employees killed by mob in Falluja in March 2004

Blackwater says its guards acted in self-defence, but this has been disputed by Iraqi eyewitnesses.

The interior ministry report, based on testimony from witnesses, concluded that Blackwater guards in Baghdad's Nisour Square started shooting after two mortar rounds landed nearby.

"They started shooting randomly from four positions in the square, killing 11 civilians and injuring 12 others," said interior ministry spokesman Maj Gen Abdul-Karim Khalaf.

"The first one who was killed was a driver who failed to stop and then his wife," Maj Gen Khalaf said.

The report also calls for the lifting of legal immunity for foreign security companies operating in Iraq.

The US embassy said it would not comment on the Iraqi report while its own investigation is under way.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has described the shooting as a "criminal act" and vowed not to tolerate it."

[full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7006697.stm]

Can you imagine how tense you would be in such a place? I'm trying to empathize with the security guards. How terrible for these security operatives (there's about 1,000 of them in this one firm), oh wait, how terrible for the 27.5 million Iraqi citizens who have been living in such violent chaos for the last four years.

McCain: "MoveOn.org ought to be thrown out of this country"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l67jNjNbO5Y

Later: “Senator McCain, like most Americans, is appalled by the MoveOn.org ad. Last night he expressed his outrage in words that did not convey his intended meaning. What he meant to say was that MoveOn's smear of General Petraeus' character should have no place in the American political debate.”

Still, that is wrong. Restrict what goes in to debate?

Such 'debate' shapes our future.

Such 'debate' takes place here, in blogs, in forums, over the phone, on the train, walking to meetings, walking to class. We must commit.

Jena 6

Hopefully all of you know the story. For those who don't, read up. For those who do, read up. We must be equipped to combat ignorance and injustice. Education is the first step, but it is not enough.

Situation:

Jena, Louisiana, Fall 2006 - "the day after two Black high school students sat beneath the "white tree" on their campus, nooses were hung from the tree. When the superintendent dismissed the nooses as a "prank," more Black students sat under the tree in protest. The District Attorney then came to the school accompanied by the town's police and demanded that the students end their protest, telling them, "I can be your best friend or your worst enemy... I can take away your lives with a stroke of my pen."¹
...
The noose-hanging incident and the DA's visit to the school set the stage for everything that followed. Racial tension escalated over the next couple of months, and on November 30, the main academic building of Jena High School was burned down in an unsolved fire. Later the same weekend, a black student was beaten up by white students at a party. The next day, black students at a convenience store were threatened by a young white man with a shotgun. They wrestled the gun from him and ran away. While no charges were filed against the white man, the students were arrested for the theft of the gun.²

That Monday at school, a white student, who had been a vocal supporter of the students who hung the nooses, taunted the black student who was beaten up at the off-campus party and allegedly called several black students "nigger." After lunch, he was knocked down, punched and kicked by black students. He was taken to the hospital but was released and was well enough to go to a social event that evening.³

Six Black Jena High students, Robert Bailey (17), Theo Shaw (17), Carwin Jones (18), Bryant Purvis (17), Mychal Bell (16) and an unidentified minor, were expelled from school, arrested and charged with second-degree attempted murder.

1. "Injustice in Jena as Nooses Hang From the ‘White Tree,'" truthout, July 3, 2007
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/070307B.shtml

2. "Racial demons rear heads," Chicago Tribune, May 20, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/yvh7t5

3. See reference #1."

Solution:

Contact
1) Louisiana state governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco

Write	Fax	E-mail
Office of the Governor Attn: Constituent Services P.O. Box 94004 Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9004	Facsimile: 225-342-7099	E-mail the Governor

Call

866-366-1121 225-342-0991 225-342-7015

2) Louisiana state attorney general Charles C. Foti Jr. - 225-326-6705.

DEMONSTRATE OUTSIDE THEIR OFFICES, CALL, WRITE LETTERS, MAKE NOISE, BE LOUD, BE PROUD.

Best Way to Disarm?

http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=73789

"I'm not certain that we have the rationale behind it, but they expressed interest in going to Ground Zero,”

Yes that's a tricky one.

Why don't we take a bigger shit on a peaceful, diplomatic gesture, and follow it up with some good ol' preventative war.