A chilling excerpt from a radio communication transcript between an Israeli company commander and his subordinates. The commander is facing a three-year sentence in prison.
SENTRY: We spotted an Arab female about 100 meters below our emplacement, near the light armored vehicle gate.
HEADQUARTERS: Observation post “Spain,” do you see it?
OBSERVATION POST: Affirmative, it’s a young girl. She’s now running east.
…
HQ: Are you talking about a girl under ten?
OP: Approximately a ten-year-old girl.
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cc [to HQ]: We fired and killed her. She has . . . wearing pants . . . jeans and a vest, shirt. Also she had a kaffiyeh on her head. I also confirmed the kill. Over.
HQ: Roger.
CC [on general communications band]: Any motion, anyone who moves in the zone, even if it’s a three-year-old, should be killed. Over.
If tomorrow all the things were gone I’d worked for all my life,
And I had to start again with just my children and my wife.
I’d thank my lucky stars to be living here today,
‘Cause the flag still stands for freedom and they can’t take that away.
And I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free.
And I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.
And I’d gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today.
‘Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land God bless the U.S.A.
From the lakes of Minnesota, to the hills of Tennessee,
across the plains of Texas, from sea to shining sea,
From Detroit down to Houston and New York to LA,
Well, there’s pride in every American heart,
and it’s time to stand and say:
I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free.
And I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.
And I’d gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today.
‘Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land God bless the U.S.A.
So….Woody is blind.
Mommie throws popcorn on the floor for him and he can’t see it.
No…………………………….
Poor baby. My bestest friend in the whole world is fading…
The greyhound down to seattle was coo. Lots of crazies.
Oh and mommie made us cupcakes too.
I think I’m goin dancin tonight.
No tengo dinero
Ni nada que dar
Lo unico que tengo es amor para amar
Thats a snappy little number. I miss it.
Today was hella fucked up. Went to the health center. That was fun. Real neat time.
Chilled on campus. Chilled.
Ate some gruuuub.
And studied in Comm. Got a neat lil’ surprise. Will see how that goes.
Oh life…really got me this time. Bitch.
Seattle should be fun saturday. Hopefully I can go get some “ropa” or “clothing” with Jillie.
Oh and a sleepover with woody? 17 floors in the sky? Looking at the space needle? I like my new life.
Got 3 probs done on my Biostats homework. Its been 3 hours. I have 4 left. Wtf. I am either dumb, dont pay attention in class or dont pay attention in class, or miss office hours.
Its cooo. Ill just figure it out all by myself like I usually do.
Prolly spend fri night in studying for my test on mon and tues. But i’ll go out sat in Seattle. Aight. Back to work. Thought I would update the masses with this thrilling story of my life.
38) What was your most embarrassing moment of 2005? puking in my hand and falling down amidst a bunch of divas when i was sick in 502.
These aren’t my words. But…go Ashley!
Yes’m good times.
From Martin Luther King Jr.’s November 1967 speech at the National Labor Leadership Assembly for Peace:
Now what are some of the domestic consequences of the war in Vietnam? It has made the Great Society a myth and replaced it with a troubled and confused society…It has given the extreme right, the anti-labor, anti-Negro, and anti-humanistic forces a weapon of spurious patriotism to galvanize its supporters into reaching for power, right up to the White House. It hopes to use national frustration to take control and restore the America of social insecurity and power for the privileged.
…It is disgraceful that a Congress that can vote upwards of $35 billion a year for a senseless immoral war in Vietnam cannot vote a weak $2 billion dollars to carry on our all too feeble efforts to bind up the wound of our nations 35 million poor. This is nothing short of a Congress engaging in political guerilla warfare against the defenseless poor of our nation.
When I first decided to take a firm stand against the war in Vietnam, I was subjected to the most bitter criticism, by the press, by individuals, and even by some fellow civil rights leaders. There were those who said that I should stay in my place, that these two issues did not mix and I should stick with civil rights. Well I had only one answer for that and it was simply the fact that I have struggled too long and too hard now to get rid of segregation in public accommodations to end up at this point in my life segregating my moral concerns.
Where are you now?
Reach for the stars!
If you go to www.whitepeople.com you can buy crackers. Check it out.
Spread Love, It’s the Brooklyn Way
Damn. I have things due tomorrow, surprise. Its only 7 but I have a feeling I will be up all night. No MSN and no music…and no blogging.
Biostats is reediculusly cool. I have to use all these dumb programs and graphs and analysis shit. I’m too old for this stuff.
I hate people next to me on the computers that distract or annoy me. I had this girly next to me and all she did was look at pictures of her other girlies on facebook. Cool, but come on. You should know I get distracted easily. Oh come on. Me.
I came to the monumental conclusion that I’m not going to play lacrosse. The end.
I could do other things. Taking a break (e.g. going to Whoahawka) made me worse at lacrosse, the team got better and I think I wouldn’t play very much and the guys are all jocks and I just can’t handle that atmosphere anymore. Soccer had cooler people, but these lax kids only talk about sports and drinking and the various dancing/aerobics classes that take place during our warm up. I just can’t hold a normal conversation. Actualy I think last year I had a good conversation. Not that I only care about conversations, I just dont like always feeling annoyed and uncomfortable on top of my current suckiness at the sport. Everyone talked about the gay cowboy movie yesterday. That was a fun one to listen to. WTF how old are we. We are in college and live in a fairly liberal area. I was actually fairly shocked. I think they are all just afraid. Very afraid…muhaha. Yeah, now I can do other things with my free nights. I don’t know what. I’ll think of a new hobby.
Hey Ashley. How cool would it be to go to La Divina and tomar. Huh? Huh? Say hi to flipz and terese for me. Tell them to “keep it real” for me. Aight?
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