Funferal

Knowing America

In response to Bush’s craven remarks about ‘the America he knows’ ZNet has distributed an essay by Vijay Prashad that notes some of the omissions in Bush’s world view, serving up many examples of documented brutality in US prisons:

The prison guards within and without US are guilty of sadism and brutality, but they are not alone. The political leadership sanctifies these acts with its reduction of the humanity of certain people to criminal and terrorist. We are trained to forget that people for complex reasons resort to criminal acts or to the tactic of terrorism.