via Charlie Pierce at Esquire: A while back, we noted the story of the toddler who was severely injured when, during a drug raid, a local SWAT team came busting in and someone threw a flash-bang grenade into his crib. Well, his mother has written a chilling first-hand account of what happened to her son, and to her, during their encounter with one of our insanely militarized police forces....This didnt happen in Mosul. This didnt happen in Jalalabad. It happened in Atlanta. Keep this in mind. It does not have to be this way. After the greatest exercise of systematized cruelty in the countrys history, Abraham Lincoln gave the greatest speech ever given by an American president, and in its greatest passage, he called hold, enough. With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nations wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 02:10:39 +0000
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