U.S. Sen. John Kerry’s townhall speech at the University turned into a hideous scene of excessive and vicious police force when a punk kid asked one too many questions. Watch the video and let me know if your stomach turns rotten or not!
There is no doubt the kid should have put his bravado firmly in check. Absolutely. The kid should have played by the rules of polite and civil behavior. Certainly. The kid deserved to be dragged by four policemen and Tasered as he screamed in pain? I don’t bloody think so!
The first thought that came to mind after watching the video? We’re trying to bring freedom and democracy to the Iraqi people and an obnoxious (yes!) Student at the University of Florida is Tasered for asking one too many questions to a U.S. Senator? The mainstream media has ignored this sickening spectacle. I’m disgusted.
Finally some common sense thoughts on the ‘War on Terror’. Really little more to add beyond posting the well-intentioned comments by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in an interview with CNN’s Mary LLoyd.
Article posted on CNN — “Tutu: Poverty fueling terror.”
HONG KONG, China (CNN) — The global “war on terror” can’t be won if people are living […]
According to MENAFN News, Iraqi Oil Minister, Hussain Al-Shahristani, has today announced plans to construct an oil and natural gas pipeline to both Iran and Syria - scheduled to begin construction in 2008.
Both neighboring countries have been long accused by the United States of meddling inside Iraq and are both accused of fueling the ongoing […]
Have just finished reading an eighty page report by Dr Dan Plesch and Martin Butcher entitled, “Considering a war with Iran: A discussion paper on WMD in the Middle East.”
It is a compelling read full of assumptions - yes - but balanced, and disturbing.
If the U.S. is truly contemplating a unilateral attack on Iran then […]
Article in Time.com from Saturday August 18 by Robert Baer.
Entitled, “Prelude to an attack on Iran.”
Begins:
Reports that the Bush Administration will put Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terrorism list can be read in one of two ways: it’s either more bluster or, ominously, a wind-up for a strike on Iran. Officials I talk […]
