(Courtesy Black Agenda Report)
UNITED FOR PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY.
(Black Agenda Report)
This term has been used derisively for an anti-war organization, United For Peace and Justice. The suspicion that UFPJ and other mainline “anti-war” groups were simply tools of the Democratic Party in its struggle to gain power is supported by a recent study of two professors from Michigan and Indiana, showing that most UFPJ demonstration participators were dedicated Democratic partisans whose protests were drastically muted once their party captured control of the presidency and the Congress.
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DON’T STRIKE A MATCH IN THE MIDDLE OF A RAGING INFERNO, YOU MIGHT START A FIRE.
(UK Independent)
This is one interpretation of President Obama’s decision against the release of a photograph of a dead Osama bin Laden that he fears would “inflame” Arab public opinion and be used as a “propaganda tool” by terrorists. Meantime, the President brings out a propaganda tool of his own, going to New York to make an appearance at ground zero of 9/11 attacks, further burnishing the “bump” in his popularity produced by the operation to bring bin Laden to “justice” (or at least to the bottom of the Arabian Sea.)
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WHY DID NAVY SEALS DESTROY A HELICOPTER AT THE SCENE OF THE RAID ON THE BIN LADEN COMPOUND?
(Time Magazine)
Time Magazine tackles this question, questioning “experts” including writers for Aviation Week. The bottom line of product from all this expertise is “We don’t know,” with only speculation that there was something unusual about the design of the copter that for some reason needed to be kept a secret—from whom? A more definitive answer to this question may be a key to understand what “really” happened on that raid.
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AGAINST THE TIDE: ILLINOIS OPTS OUT OF FEDERAL ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM TARGETING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
(Chicago Tribune)
Governor Pat Quinn notifies Justice Department that the state will not be participating in the Secure Communities program encouraging local law enforcement agents to participate in the detention and deportation of illegals. At the same time, a bill is working its way through the state legislature to provide a DREAM ACT to aid the children of undocumented immigrants, as the federal version of this act has been turned down.
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A FORTY-YEAR TRADITION OF GRAD NITE FOR HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS ENDS AT DISNEY WORLD IN ORLANDO.
(Orlando Sentinel)
Ever since the theme park opened in 1972, it has allowed graduating seniors from the area to take over exclusive use of the park for a special night that has become a “rite of passage” for area youngsters. The park now offers instead an individual free one-day pass for area graduates. Their decision was apparently based on bottom line calculations: spring attendance at the park has been so robust that operators could not “afford” to forego those profits for a night.
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Quote of the day…
It was striking to note in yesterday’s New York Times the obituary of Moshe Landau, the Israeli judge who presided over the 1961 war crimes trial of Adolf Eichmann. It’s a reminder that when even the most heinous Nazi war criminals were hunted down by the Israelis, they weren’t shot in the head and then dumped into the ocean, but rather were apprehended, tried in a court of law, confronted with the evidence against them for all the world to see, and then punished in accordance with due process.
Glenn Greenwald, in a “then and now” contrast in treatment of suspected war criminals.
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