12-15-2016, 04:29 PM
America is a sick society.
That's what we knew back in the sixties, and said so. It's what we've forgotten today, amid all the "God Bless America" super-patriot reactionary propaganda.
Any society that produces Dylan Roof is a sick society.
Any society that thinks a sick behavior like capitalism is not a problem but a "solution" is a sick society.
It needs help; it needs a cure. It is possible to cure it, but it has been a long-standing illness, probably inherent and genetic in nature, and it will take a long time to cure.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Dylann S. Roof, a self-radicalized young white supremacist who killed nine black parishioners last year when he opened fire during a long-planned assault on Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, was found guilty by a federal jury here on Thursday.
The jury convicted Mr. Roof of nine counts of hate crimes resulting in death, three counts of hate crimes involving an attempt to kill (there were three survivors), nine counts of obstructing the exercise of religion resulting in death, three counts of that charge with an attempt to kill, and nine counts of using a firearm to commit murder during a crime of violence.
Mr. Roof, 22, stood, his hands at his side and his face emotionless, as a clerk read the verdict aloud in court. Two deputy United States marshals stood behind Mr. Roof, whose lawyers also stood nearby.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/15/us/dyl...trial.html
That's what we knew back in the sixties, and said so. It's what we've forgotten today, amid all the "God Bless America" super-patriot reactionary propaganda.
Any society that produces Dylan Roof is a sick society.
Any society that thinks a sick behavior like capitalism is not a problem but a "solution" is a sick society.
It needs help; it needs a cure. It is possible to cure it, but it has been a long-standing illness, probably inherent and genetic in nature, and it will take a long time to cure.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Dylann S. Roof, a self-radicalized young white supremacist who killed nine black parishioners last year when he opened fire during a long-planned assault on Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, was found guilty by a federal jury here on Thursday.
The jury convicted Mr. Roof of nine counts of hate crimes resulting in death, three counts of hate crimes involving an attempt to kill (there were three survivors), nine counts of obstructing the exercise of religion resulting in death, three counts of that charge with an attempt to kill, and nine counts of using a firearm to commit murder during a crime of violence.
Mr. Roof, 22, stood, his hands at his side and his face emotionless, as a clerk read the verdict aloud in court. Two deputy United States marshals stood behind Mr. Roof, whose lawyers also stood nearby.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/15/us/dyl...trial.html