Ethan Bronner a journalist wrote recently, “that if you kill one person, you go to jail, if you kill twenty, you go to an institution for the insane, and if you kill twenty thousand you get political asylum”

Paraguay’s Stroessner is in Brazil, Haiti’s Cedras is in Panama, Ethiopia’s Miriam is in Zimbabwe, Chad’s Habre is in Senegal.
Idi Amin dada dies in Saudi Arabia, he was 78 years of age, and after admittedly confessing once that he ate human flesh died of natural causes.

Why was this friend of a friend never subject to international prosecution ala Saddam, and Ben Ladin?
Or are the Saudi’s exempt from all criticism because of their US connections.
Amin is dead, why and how can the powerful forgive his transgressions against humanity or do they too plan to eat us and flee into exile?

He and those like him deserve to sleep with the fishes.
Viva la revolution of thinking people everywhere who will light candles in an otherwise darkening world.
The children are watching and for many their video games of choice prepare them for the killings yet to come.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream and the anniversary of the Washington March was recently commemorated.
How many are aware that in the beginning of his advocacy his minions were armed for safety prior to his meeting the Quaker Bayard Rustin who exposed Dr. King to the Ghandian Principles and tactics of non-violence.

The irony of ironies is that he was killed by the very thing he did not embrace violent physical confrontation.
What will kill the Poets of the world?
Perhaps it will be societies racing towards illiteracy , too enamored of televised sound bites to see beyond plasticized and fraudulent surfaces.