Letter to the Editor
They tell us that we are on the verge of a world wide killer bird flu pandemic where millions are going to die and the Republicans are cutting funds to the Center of Disease Control. We are a nation gone mad!
This story about the passenger getting shot today just doesn't add up. You have a guy who they say claimed he had a bomb but his wife was shouting he was just off his meds. I don't believe that even if he was shouting he had a bomb that anyone with any common sense, let alone training would believe it. He wasn't even on the plane when he was shot so I'm just not buying this story.
One thing that you will see in 100% of shootings by police is that any time someone is shot they always claim that the killed person did something aggressive that justified the shooting. In this case to justify the shooting there has to be a claim there was a bomb and that there was reason to believe that he was going to detonate it. It is a given that no matter what really happened that the story would have been the same.
So as I'm watching them blow up luggage on the tarmac when clearly they already knew at that point that they totally fucked up, what I see is at least theatrics and at worse the destruction of evidence.
My opinion is that what is most likely the case is that this guy mouthed off and they decided to teach him a lesson because they knew they could get away with it.
Let's see if they find any passengers who actually heard the bomb threat other than the cops. It wouldn't surprise me if they made that up.
I don't trust police and I know how they lie. Having been kidnapped 3 times by the police I don't have a very high opinion of their honesty. I don't want to sound like I don't appreciate them because most cops are good public servants. But when cops do bad things they all come together and cover up for the bad cop every time. And in this case the facts just don't add up to something I think is believable. I don't believe that when a guy is off the plane and just acting a little nuts that he was a serious danger of being a terrorist. I would guarantee that a real terrorist would not behave that way. A real terrorist would be as cool and normal looking as you can get.
Letter to the Editor
The United States Supreme Court ruled today the the government can garnish the Social Security checks of old disabled people who haven't paid back their student loans. The decision against a 67 year old Seattle man who lives in public housing who says he needs his $874 a month to pay for food and medicine. It may be legal for America to take money from a poor old disabled man but that doesn't make it right. It speaks as to who we are as a nation and a people and reflects the (lack of) heart of America's soul.
Letter to the Editor
This Iraq war is making America weaker and the enemies of America stronger. And Bush wants us to "stay the course"? I don't think so! When one figures out they are heading in the wrong direction it is time to turn around.
Letter to the Editor
America can not win the war in Iraq because in order to win the war we are going to have to defeat the very people who we are supposedly trying to liberate. The people of Iraq are not terrorists. They are a people who are fighting for freedom against a brutal invading force who has used rape, torture, and chemical weapons against the civilian population. Saddam is gone. There are no weapons of mass destruction. Bush lied to get us into this war and we have no plan to get out and we don't even understand why it is we are there in the first place. Iraq was better of when Saddam was in power than it is now. The situation is bad and the longer we stay there the worse it gets.