Dear RN, Here are two messages from the same address, one about the recent exoneration of the police who killed a black man who they say was a suspected rapist (according to CBC news) but we all know that what he was to the police, was a man who had black skin... all the best, Jan PS Dan, (author of these messages) do let us know a bit about who you are if you have time, eh? ************************************************* Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 20:21:58 -0800 From: CyberBrook <•••@••.•••> Subject: Forty-One Times! Forty-One Times! by Ron Jacobs http://www.neravt.com/left/ The verdict is in. The cops are free to kill again, if they feel the need. The community of color has been reminded, once again, of their place, and the police are reminded, once again, of theirs. If one is a cop in America, (s)he is free to shoot and kill an unarmed human just because his/her skin is black and s/he lives in a poor neighborhood. If one is a cop in America, s/he is above the law. What would be cold-blooded murder becomes self defense, if the cops are the ones pulling the trigger. What would be a weak attempt at lying by any other person becomes an entire courtroom defense, if one is a cop. What should have been a tireless prosecution in pursuit of a gang-style execution becomes a shabby masquerade by the district attorneys office when the killers are cops. What should have been a post-trial plea by the police for a little mercy becomes a post-trial plea by the murdered man's family for calm to a crowd of righteously angry friends and supporters of the murdered man. Welcome to the new millennium, America, where the strange fruit no longer hangs from the sycamore trees, but bleeds to death in a New York City doorway and the lynch mob wears the policemans uniform. Welcome to the new millennium, America, where the murder victim is blamed for his death because (and only because) his skin is black. Welcome to the new millennium, America, where the man on the television asks us to sympathize with the killers because they were four white men who killed an unarmed black man. Welcome to the new millennium, America, where the color line that W.E.B DuBois said would define the twentieth century has just shown its ugly head in the twenty-first. This verdict is inexcusable. These cops intended to kill Amadou Diallo when they shot him forty-one times with their semi-automatic pistols. Forty one times. One, two, thre, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twentypthree, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-seven, thirty-eight, thirty-nine, forty, forty-one. ****************************************************************** Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 21:27:16 -0800 To: •••@••.••• From: CyberBrook <•••@••.•••> Subject: Chomsky I don't recall if they have a search engine on their site, but the place for all things Chomsky can be found at: www.zmag.org/chomsky Good luck!---Dan >Hi Jan: > A friend asked where I got the Chomsky quote below. I thought it >was from one of your postings but have been unable to find it. > Does it ring any bells? Don't bother if it doesn't come easily to >mind. > > Thanks. > Yours, Mike N. >Note from Jan: doesn't ring a bell for me; does anyone else know? >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "A principle familiar to propagandists is that > the doctrine to be instilled in the target audience > should not be articulated: that would only expose > them to reflection, inquiry, and, very likely, ridicule. > The proper procedure is to drill them home by > constantly presupposing them, so that they become > the very condition for discourse". > > Noam Chomsky