Truth, Justice and EQuality (Formerly the Chicago
Heights City Council
Report)
By Robert McCoy
Once again, I have
accumulated a number of small stories, which arent big enough to fill up a
weekly column, but interesting enough to add to the collection. Hopefully, together these little stories
will start you to think about the broader implications of the news you see and
read in the controlled press.
In light, of the
concentration on reparations for Africans and African Americans for slavery and
the conclusion of the world conference on racism last week, I thought you
should know about the one trillion dollar (thats 1,000 billion) lawsuit filed
against the Japanese government for WW II forced slave labor. This was for a few years and a few thousands
of victims. So if they are entitled to
1 trillion, roughly the size of the Baby Bush's tax cut, which has plunged the
nation back to borrowing, how much does the U.S. Government owe millions of
African Americans for over 350 years of slavery? Check your dictionary and see whats the denomination after a
zillion. Now you see why the low level U.S.
delegation had to leave the conference before it ended.
The second story of interest
is U.S. Senate Committee on the nation's preparedness for biological attack on
the citizens of America. Medical, police, and public safety
institutions are not ready to deal with a biological attack. The report concludes that many Americans
would die in a nuclear bomb attack and that a biological attack is the most
likely way a terrorist group would attack America
because of the ease to manufacture and deliver.
So why is Baby Bush and the
boys trying to spend billions of additional tax dollars on a Ronald Ray-Gun
Star War Anti-Missile System that doesnt work? Attacks by missiles are less likely and the most expensive way to
attack America. In fact only three or four nations in the
world have the nuclear and long range missile technology to attack America
via missiles. So why would Baby Bush
waste money on defending the least likely attack mode at the expense of the
most likely terrorist attack from biological or chemical weapon attack which
certainly would take place in a major metropolitan area like Chicagoland?
It is criminal that the Bush
administration would put all of us at risk of biological or chemical weapon
attack so that he can waste billions of our tax dollars with his campaign
contribution buddies in military industrial complex. The boy is stuck on stupid.
Our only salvation is to put political pressure on our members of
congress to ensure to any additional military spending goes to local
preparedness, training and local infrastructure improvements in case of
biological or chemical weapons attacks.
About a year ago Night Line
did one simulated non-contagious subway biological attack on one U.S.
city and the results were over 100,000 dead.
What if it was a contagious virus and there was more than one site? The Senate Committee simulated attacks in
three U.S.
cities and the media didnt release the estimated death toll.
If you have never called or
written your Congressman or U.S. Senator, I think it is time you learned how to
use that cell phone for something other than gossip and small talk. Otherwise, when it happens (both reports say
its just a matter of time) you wont have anyone to blame but your apathy. The SAGA continues.