It can happen again

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Tuesday March 14, 2006 · 5:55 PM PST

2006/03/14 · 17:55

No, not what they want you to think...planes fly into buildings, death and destruction, fear, paranoia, rising threat levels.. "It can happen again...any time, any place...be afraid, be very afraid". We need to take this phrase back from them.
I heard Tavis Smiley on the radio today talking about progress made by the Covenant for Black America. As he told of the support it was receiving, he said something to the effect of America having the chance to make positive changes...in essence, moving forward to go back to how it was just a decade ago. He said "It can happen again"
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Another Story of Dishonor of the Fallen

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Sunday January 29, 2006 · 4:55 PM PST

2006/01/29 · 16:55

This story just played on my local news . I realize Alito and SOTU is in the forefront of everyone's mind, but I bring this to light because I feel badly for this family.
I remember the diaries about what was thought to be the dishonorable way bodies of soldiers were transported..and the comments that pragmatically stated it was the most cost effective way to move a body and not necessarily a slight toward the family...but this goes a step further. The family's full story is at Soldiers Plea Read More

Wal Mart vs. Bill of RIghts

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Saturday October 15, 2005 · 4:08 PM PDT

2005/10/15 · 16:08

I just came across this little tidbit
about a civics lesson on the Bill of Rights gone wrong. Well, not exactly gone wrong..it just proved what's wrong with the current climate regarding the meaning of the Bill of Rights and how it gets mis-interpreted.

Jarvis had assigned her senior civics and economics class "to take photographs to illustrate their rights in the Bill of Rights," she says. One student "had taken a photo of George Bush out of a magazine and tacked the picture to a wall with a red thumb tack through his head. Then he made a thumb's-down sign with his own hand next to the President's picture, and he had a photo taken of that, and he pasted it on a poster."

According to Jarvis, the student, who remains anonymous, was just doing his assignment, illustrating the right to dissent. But over at the Kitty Hawk Wal-Mart, where the student took his film to be developed, this right is evidently suspect.

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Sunday October 09, 2005 · 1:48 PM PDT

2005/10/09 · 13:48

I came across this article and while googling for more info, saw it was kicked around at FR. I thought it might make for some good discussion (and a first try at a diary).
Apparently, society has become so immune to the sight of real dead and dismembered bodies, so jaded by the real horrors and evil or war, that UNICEF must make its anti-war statement by showing a bucolic Smurf village annhilated by bombs. Leaving a sobbing, tattered Baby Smurf to be the symbol imploring "Don't let war affect the lives of our children."
I am reminded of the "Daisy" ad run in the 60's during the Goldwater/Johnson campaign (and recently revived by MoveOn). A little girl plucks petals as a countdown to an explosion and a mushroom cloud...I was a little girl myself, and it scared me mightily. I can only wonder what the UNICEF ad will do to kids that see it. Read More

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