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?
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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.
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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?
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>
> "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
