Politics

Activist Princeton University professor and well-known commentator Cornel West was one of 19 people arrested on the steps of the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon while protesting the influence of corporate money in politics, reports AP.

The group was busted when they refused to leave the grounds, according to a spokeswoman for the Supreme Court. West had attended the dedication ceremony for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial prior to joining protests against the Afghanistan war and corporate greed.

Last year the Supreme Court blocked limits on corporate campaign contributions. West, who is not known for keeping his opinions to himself recently blasted presidential contender Herman Cain on TV, telling him to “get off the symbolic crack pipe.” Continue Reading…

In 2011 the state of Georgia will be guilty of a lynching. The lynching of Troy Davis, condoned and carried out by the US Government. This is a stain on our whole judicial process.

Troy Davis will die tomorrow. Georgia’s pardons board today rejected a last-ditch plea for clemency for the death row inmate, despite calls from the likes of Pope Benedict, Amnesty International, and Jimmy Carter for his sentence to be commuted. The panel announced its decision after hearing hours of testimony from his supporters and prosecutors, and the AP notes that the decision leaves Davis with little chance of avoiding death by lethal injection, scheduled for 7pm tomorrow.

Davis claims that he was wrongly convicted of killing off-duty Savannah officer Mark MacPhail in 1989—calling it a case of mistaken identity—and in the hearing, his lawyers attempted to establish “substantial doubt.” Three jurors from the 1991 case asked the board to grant Davis clemency, with one saying she now doubts the verdict they handed him; a Savannah woman also told the board that at a 2009 party she heard Sylvester “Redd” Coles, who was with Davis just before MacPhail was shot, say he was the killer, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Counters Mark MacPhail Jr., “Justice was finally served for my father.”

Only Obama can save this potentially innocent man’s life now. Will he?

Holla at Obama on twitter and tell him he should: https://twitter.com/#!/BARACKOBAMA

Hey Jacky,

With the 10th anniversary coming up I thought some insider info on the overall direction and goal of the things that sprung forth from that day in September might be appropriate… Continue Reading…

Jacky in NY its getting crazy. I believe the news is spreading propaganda about terrorist threats so we as Americans can lose our civil liberties (Like Bush did when he would come out and state those Orange or Red alert days).

Do you know in NY they are actually stopping random cars on bridges and tunnels and searching them. Also in Manhattan the Police are going around on the STREETS and randomly searching people. On the subways since 9/11 police have always been allowed to search you before paying your fare and you had the right to say yes or no (saying no meant you were not allowed to ride the subway and would be asked to leave), but now they are doing these random searches after you pay and no choice is given.

Jacky do you believe this is the way of opening the door to a police state while using the angle of Terrorism.?

Jacky’s Answer Here