by jay janson
During this time in which many of us are still mourning the recent passing of former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark it seems appropriate to reflect on Ramsey’s many warnings to humanity like, ‘The government of Americans will lie, deceive, kill, do whatever it must to dominate - investors in war who control it insanely insensitive to the beauty of life and planet.’ The Editor, The Greanville Post
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The government of Americans will lie, deceive, kill, do whatever it must to dominate’
In 1986, former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark described his government, the government of the United States of America, as humanity’s ever more threatening and treacherous enemy and his warning is more valid and scary than ever,
White NYC cop ignores veteran Black officerâs attempts to deescalate, kills man in his apartment
Police-provided video shows Bronx cops Brendan Thompson (far left) and Herbert Davis before the shooting death of Kawaski Trawick (far right).
If actions form the measuring stick, New York City s foremost figures fall disappointingly short of proving they care at all about Black people. They fall short repeatedly. They fell short when the city s police union endorsed a man for president who defended white supremacists. They fell short when the department took five years to fire a white cop shown in viral video choking Eric Garner to death, Garner having been accused of little more than selling loose cigarettes outside a store on Staten Island. They fell short when New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who happens to be married to a Black woman, passed over a Black man three times in a row to serve as police commissioner.