Reality is Another Kind of Fiction

There’s something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that will praise you when you say, “Be non-violent toward [Selma, Alabama segregationist sheriff] Jim Clark,” but will curse and damn you when you say, “Be non-violent toward little brown Vietnamese children.

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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (via indizombie)

Very strange indeed reverend. 

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thepeoplesrecord: og-pxmxa: nezua: thepeoplesrecord: BREAKING: US-backed Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt has been found guilty of genocide for overseeing the slaughter of more than 1,700 people in the country’s Mayan region when he took power in 1982 during the height of Guatemala’s civil war.  He was sentenced to 50 years in prison for genocide & an additional 30 years for crimes against humanity.  More than 200,000 lives were lost during the 36-year civil war which ended in 1996.  I’m guessing the U.S. Government is a really bad judge in character Correct. The Efrain Rios Montt genocide conviction was annulled by Guatemala’s constitutional court yesterday. View Larger

thepeoplesrecord:

og-pxmxa:

nezua:

thepeoplesrecord:

BREAKING: US-backed Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt has been found guilty of genocide for overseeing the slaughter of more than 1,700 people in the country’s Mayan region when he took power in 1982 during the height of Guatemala’s civil war. 

He was sentenced to 50 years in prison for genocide & an additional 30 years for crimes against humanity. 

More than 200,000 lives were lost during the 36-year civil war which ended in 1996. 

I’m guessing the U.S. Government is a really bad judge in character

Correct.

The Efrain Rios Montt genocide conviction was annulled by Guatemala’s constitutional court yesterday.

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