[An official familiar with the case has said the bomb left along a Martin Luther King Day parade route in Spokane, Washington had a devastating potential to inflict a number of casualties. In an Associated Press article, the official is quoted as saying "They haven't seen anything like this in this country," and "This was the worst device, and most intentional device, I've ever seen."
Thankfully, a city worker noticed the bomb before the parade marched past the device last Monday. When law enforcement officials saw a wire coming out of the package the bomb squad was called and the parade was re-routed. The bomb squad was able to defuse the bomb, and now officials are discovering the sophisticated nature of the device. The device was designed to be detonated remotely through something akin to a garage door opener. Shrapnel was also strategically placed in the package to cause more injuries after to anyone within the blast range.
The FBI has said the time and location of the device are inescapable, leading them to believe there was a social or political agenda behind the attempted attack. The FBI has called the attempt an act of "domestic terrorism."
Despite the gravity of the story, the mainstream has paid relatively little attention to the story...]
http://www.examiner.com/political-buzz-in-national/mlk-parade-bomb-spokane-called-worst-device-ever-seen-this-country
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Honoring MLK AND R E. Lee?
WTF!!!!
Hold on to the War Between the States as long as y'all ignorqnt, cousin marryin' fools want to ; the rest of us in real word know it ended long ago.
The War did, but racism lives on even today.
[In Arkansas, Gen. Lee gets his day, too
12:00 AM CST on Sunday, January 20, 2008
From Wire Reports
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Arkansas state employees will have Monday off, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. – and General Robert E. Lee, commanding officer of the Confederate Army.
DANNY JOHNSTON/The Associated Press
Arkansas Capitol doors indicate that offices will be closed Monday for both leaders' birthdays. Every year, the doors of the state Capitol bear notices that offices will be closed the third Monday of January to honor Dr. King and Gen. Lee. Arkansas is one of three states to commemorate both men with a state holiday. The others are Alabama and Mississippi.
"I know my students that come to the university seem to come with a bit of nostalgia for the Old South ... particularly Robert E. Lee, who has the mystique of being the man who only reluctantly seceded," said University of Arkansas history professor Jeannie M. Whayne. "He's become, well, one book's title says it all, The Marble Man, the ideal of the Southerner..."
...Commemorating Gen. Lee's birth dates to 1943, when Arkansas legislators declared it one of several "memorial days" the governor would commemorate by a proclamation. It became a legal holiday in 1947.
In 1983, lawmakers voted to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as an official state holiday but required state employees to choose two out of three holidays – Dr. King's birthday on Jan. 15, Gen. Lee's birthday on Jan. 19 or the employee's birthday. In 1985, they voted to combine Dr. King's and Gen. Lee's holidays. Employees got to keep their birthdays as a holiday.]
(emphasis added, just got to love old south nostalgia when blacks had no rights and only counted under Constitution as 3/5 of a person for representation in US House.)
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-arleevsking_20tex.ART.State.Edition1.373d55c.html
hat tip Field Negro
Hold on to the War Between the States as long as y'all ignorqnt, cousin marryin' fools want to ; the rest of us in real word know it ended long ago.
The War did, but racism lives on even today.
[In Arkansas, Gen. Lee gets his day, too
12:00 AM CST on Sunday, January 20, 2008
From Wire Reports
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Arkansas state employees will have Monday off, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. – and General Robert E. Lee, commanding officer of the Confederate Army.
DANNY JOHNSTON/The Associated Press
Arkansas Capitol doors indicate that offices will be closed Monday for both leaders' birthdays. Every year, the doors of the state Capitol bear notices that offices will be closed the third Monday of January to honor Dr. King and Gen. Lee. Arkansas is one of three states to commemorate both men with a state holiday. The others are Alabama and Mississippi.
"I know my students that come to the university seem to come with a bit of nostalgia for the Old South ... particularly Robert E. Lee, who has the mystique of being the man who only reluctantly seceded," said University of Arkansas history professor Jeannie M. Whayne. "He's become, well, one book's title says it all, The Marble Man, the ideal of the Southerner..."
...Commemorating Gen. Lee's birth dates to 1943, when Arkansas legislators declared it one of several "memorial days" the governor would commemorate by a proclamation. It became a legal holiday in 1947.
In 1983, lawmakers voted to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as an official state holiday but required state employees to choose two out of three holidays – Dr. King's birthday on Jan. 15, Gen. Lee's birthday on Jan. 19 or the employee's birthday. In 1985, they voted to combine Dr. King's and Gen. Lee's holidays. Employees got to keep their birthdays as a holiday.]
(emphasis added, just got to love old south nostalgia when blacks had no rights and only counted under Constitution as 3/5 of a person for representation in US House.)
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-arleevsking_20tex.ART.State.Edition1.373d55c.html
hat tip Field Negro
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