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Posted on Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 10:26:08 AM EST
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Alterman here.

It's also the anniversary of the siege at WACO and the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

Tomorrow will be the 9th anniversary of former President Clinton signing AEDPA, the 1996 "Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act" (AEDPA) that was a response to the Oklahoma City Bombing and severely curtailed habeas corpus and immigrant rights. And the sixth anniversary of the Columbine School shootings.

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    This Day in History | 8 comments (8 topical)
    Re: This Day in History (none / 0) (#1)
    by Darryl Pearce on Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 11:27:45 AM EST
    ...well, then... here's to a quiet day.

    Re: This Day in History (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 11:52:08 AM EST
    You mean the mass murder at waco, little kids shot down like dogs by the political police forces of total evil?..don't shot my cat, shot me! in fact shot me now! i have no rights to live in this land of freedom!..I love it so!.."Help" Tim McVeigh did his thing! for wrong reasons and Tim payed for it, who has payed for the murder of kids by this government?

    Re: This Day in History (none / 0) (#3)
    by Andreas on Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 12:04:18 PM EST
    The WSWS today republished “The Oklahoma City bombing: a somber warning to the working class,” a statement that first appeared in the May 8, 1995 issue of the International Workers Bulletin, a forerunner of the World Socialist Web Site. Ten years since the Oklahoma City bombing 19 April 2005

    Re: This Day in History (none / 0) (#4)
    by Darryl Pearce on Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 12:30:48 PM EST
    Gosh, Fred Dawes... I feel bad about every kid that gets caught up, chewed up, spat out, blown up, shot up-- by the arguments amongst grown-ups. But..., nobody said life had to be fair, cheap, safe, or make any sense. "The Gods do not make men do such deeds. Men drive themselves to do such things, that the Gods may know them and that Men may understand themselves."

    Re: This Day in History (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 01:24:09 PM EST
    Well, said Darryl Pearce, but Carl Sandburg said it best in him poem "Grass" the last line states it all, about our government and its hate for us all. I am the grass Let me work
    Re: This Day in History (none / 0) (#6)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 01:51:41 PM EST
    Truthout suggests that the government cracking down on the right is good. I beleive that the left can't be far behind. I belong to the NRA and the ACLU and see no conflict in my position.

    Re: This Day in History (none / 0) (#7)
    by Darryl Pearce on Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 03:59:28 PM EST
    "Grass" by Carl Sandburg written in 1918 Wm Butler Yeats is another good poet.

    Re: This Day in History (none / 0) (#8)
    by Mike on Wed Apr 20, 2005 at 07:38:11 PM EST
    On this day in 1914, state militiamen and thugs employed by the Rockefeller controlled Colorado Fuel and Iron Company used machine guns and arson against striking members of the United Mine Workers of America and their families in the infamous Ludlow Massacre. See the Wikipedia article on the subject.

    This Day in History | 8 comments (8 topical)