Fiery Belafonte focuses on injustice

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Fiery Belafonte focuses on injustice
Submitted by davidswanson on Mon, 2006-01-16 10:26. Media
By Michael Biesecker, News and Observer, NC

Entertainer and human-rights activist Harry Belafonte said Sunday that there is moral equivalence between the actions of the Sept. 11 hijackers and the American-launched war in Iraq.

"Killing is our easiest tool," Belafonte said, addressing about 1,800 people packed in the cavernous gothic chapel at Duke University for a commemoration honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "When you have a president that has led us into a dishonorable war, who has killed tens of thousands, many of them our own sons and daughters, what is the difference between those who would fly airplanes into buildings, killing 3,000 innocent Americans? ... What is the difference between that terror and other terrors?"

A confidant of the slain civil rights leader, Belafonte, 78, said the nation had come a long way in his lifetime. But, he added, the injustices like those fought during the civil rights movement continue -- the botched response to Hurricane Katrina, the torture of terrorism suspects, those imprisoned without trial by the U.S. military and the recent videotape of three Florida police officers handcuffing a 5-year-old girl.

"Dr. King lives. His spirit lives," Belafonte said, praising how King changed the country through peace rather than violence. "These are the things that are left to be done."

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[orwell]

1. So Killing...

...is killing no matter who does it?

What a novel concept.

I thought the fifth commandment was "You shall not kill Americans, unless they are in prison, or poor in New Orleans."