Archive for April 16th, 2008
The US Supreme Court upheld lethal injections today, clearing the path for states to keep on killing. No matter that Justice John Paul Stevens, the Supreme Court’s most senior member, wrote an opinion on the issues stating that capital punishment was:
It’s wonderful and uplifting to know that we still hold our place next to China, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq and Sudan as the remaining countries practicing the death penalty. Those countries have a good record on human rights, don’t they? Such nice, friendly places.
Here’s some food for thought, along with being illegal in Canada, Italy, Mexico and Columbia, capital punishment is illegal in Cambodia! Capital punishment is illegal in Rwanda!!!
But, thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision today capital punishment remains all good in the United States. We should be outraged. We should be ashamed.
Down. Despite the nosedive the US economy seems to be taking, Wall Street Hedge Fund kings are raking in billions. The thing is that the only other time in the history of the United States in which there was such dramatic economic inequality was in 1928. … 1928: the year before the stock market crash. Which was followed by the Great Depression. You follow? Uh-huh.
Now, everyone has been talking about this recession we are in - or about to be in - but what no one seems to want to talk about is the glaring inequality of the distribution of wealth in the United States. As the super-rich get super-duper-rich, the poor are getting desperately poor and the middle class is joining the bread line.
A depression isn’t inevitable, but something drastic has to change. And it’s going to take more than government intervention, it’s going to take an awakening of the American conscious.