Mandela Legacy?

South Africa faced with ‘a nation’s shame’ after rape video goes viral

...it would be easy to make Mandela and the SNC as the root caue but if we did then we would have to hold Obama and the Democrats feet to the fire because we have similar gang rapes occurring frequently and these don't seem to get national attention because the mainstream media is too busy.

Trayvon Martin shooting: Zimmerman to ask judge for bail while he awaits trial

Putting Away The Chalk And Facing Reality...

Love and hate in times of sorrow

Grief unites us, but only for a short time.

...and the length of time is directly related to the amount of time the television cameras are focused on the event!
TV cameras depart but drought and famine worsen...

Now That The Hysteria Has Diminished...

Paul Russell: WikiLeaks fail to impress, but medical bribes anger readers

Juicy WikiLeaks revelations dominated the news all week. Most letter writers, however, seemed unimpressed by what they learned.
“John F. Kennedy famously said he learned nothing from the CIA he had not already read in The New York Times,” wrote Raymond Heard. “The WikiLeaks disclosures suggest that nothing has changed in the last half century. All they show us is that diplomats still reflect to their superiors in Foggy Bottom what we already know from the media: Pakistan and North Korea are increasingly dangerous failed nuclear states. Duh! The Sunni Arab monarchs want to take out Iran before it starts lobbing nukes into their gilded men’s rooms. Duh! Prince Andrew is a mountebank — and (stop the presses!) the CBC churns out anti-American dreck. Double Duh!”

“The left wing media is much more hypocritical than the right wing,” stated Stefan Santamaria. Read More »

Another Example Of A Problem With Our Justice System...

...trials become media events and the accussed needs to live with this  irregardless of whether they are found guilty or innocent. I would favour a media ban until the verdict is made.

CHRISTIE BLATCHFORDVictims should not rule our courtrooms
Oct 23, 2010 6:12AM EDT

If all our society wanted was justice for victims, we could mete it out ourselves, as they do in places like Afghanistan

Root Cause Of Hysteria...

...IMHO is the mainstream media and the Jones debacle is a prime example. I will admit that their is a fine line between the publics right to know and censorship but there has to be a point where the media walks away but right now this doesn't happen until some more outrageous comes along.

Muslims fear Muslims more than Jones


By SALIM MANSUR, QMI Agency

Over the past few weeks the mainstream media in the U.S. provided a textbook lesson of how to inflate an obscure story, and by implication suggest an overwhelming majority of Americans are perilously close to being bigots in opposing the building of the Ground Zero mosque in New York City.

Enough Said...