Immigrants sue vigilantes, win.
Bob Morris @ Nov 25th 2006 17:22 - Category: Immigrant rights ;
In one case, immigrants were awarded a 70 acre Arizona ranch, in another, $98,750 in damages.
May the trend continue.
Archive for November 25th, 2006
Charges against Jose Villa dropped!
Bob Morris @ Nov 25th 2006 07:56 - Category: Uncategorized Tags: LAPD brutality;
On July 8, 2006, ANSWER Coalition activists Jose Villa and Christen Westberry were badly beaten by LAPD at an anti-Minutemen protest. The video, which I posted in three versions on YouTube, have now been viewed over 310,000 times and unquestionably played a big part in the very good news that the bogus felony charges against Villa have been dropped.
Videos from the press conference announcing the lawsuits against LAPD are also online.
Villa’s bail had been an outrageous $50,000, which means $5,000 is unrecoverable. The ANSWER Coalition will be holding several events nationwide to help defray that cost. More details coming ASAP.
Update: It now appears LAPD will file administrative rather than criminal charges against the officers involved.
George McGovern on Iraq
Bob Morris @ Nov 25th 2006 00:28 - Category: Unfiled ;
“We are as powerless to prevent the turmoil that will happen when we withdraw as we have been to stop the insurgency.”
This is the sanest assessment yet of what’s happening in Iraq from any politician, and is far more realistic than the desperate ploys currently being attempted by D.C. McGovern understands that U.S. ‘plans’ for Iraq are delusional. The U.S. isn’t in control, hasn’t ever been, and the one thing the opposing sides there are agreed on is they want the U.S. out.
It doesn’t matter what the U.S. thinks. No one trusts them or wants them. That is the legacy of Bush, which is nothing more than an exaggerated case of the imperialism that has driven U.S policy for decades.
Lebanon and Gemayel
Bob Morris @ Nov 25th 2006 00:15 - Category: Unfiled ;
From DogHouseBooya
Anecdotes from a Banana Republic has the best Lebanese proto-Civil-War coverage in the blogosphere.
I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but I don’t believe for a nanosecond that Syria, Hezbollah, or any of their proxies killed Pierre Gemayel. The timing of this assassination only benefits the March 14th camp…and Pierre Gemayel was the best kind of sacrificial lamb (a complete tool with powerful friends).
This thought has been echoed by many others. A while back, when a prominent government official was assassinated in Sri Lanka, someone familiar with the politics there told me, “it could have been done by anyone.” Ditto for Lebanon, whose internal politics equal that of Northern Ireland for complexity, murkiness, and incomprehensibility by outsiders.
Still, Syria gained nothing from Gemayel’s death, so why would they have killed him?
By the way, you did know that Geyamal’s grandfather started the Phalange Party in Lebanon, who openly modeled themselves on European fascist movements, right?
Mormon sacred underwear
Bob Morris @ Nov 25th 2006 00:08 - Category: Unfiled ;
