. . . and time marches on

During the memorial for the victims of 9/11, Mr. Bush remarked that the world has now "marked" the terrible event-that the world now recognizes the horror of the terrorist act upon American soil. While listening, yet one cannot help but recall that just a little more than this six-month period, the world had asked Mr. Bush to listen, when the concern for the ill-treatment of the Palestinians multiplied the death count of Palestinian boys by the Israeli militia. What was Mr. Bush's response toward the slaughter in that country? In effect, Mr. Bush's pronouncement to the world--before turning his back--was:

You will have nothing negative to say about the treatment of the Palestinian people.

March 12, 2002--the bloodiest returns yet in the Palestinian region find the United Nation's Secretary General, Mr. Kofi Annan echoing earlier "requests"of that world body. He reiterated the ill-treatment and illegal occupation by the Israeli government against the Palestinian people.

We alone decide for ourselves what is best for foreign peoples in distant lands. But this practice is not the sole injustice now facing an American people. Presently is there an "appointed" regime that has wrest for its own end the "seat of power" of a Democratic America. This self-anointed body has disallowed the Constitution of the United States in order to gain "unquestioned" control over a country born out of the principles of rights, liberty, and justice for all America's citizenry.

This injustice--the setting aside of the U.S. Constitution and all rights and privileges guaranteed therein--has an effect of disbelief within the community of America's Black population (approximately 10% in number).