Fear and War

Farea al-Muslimi is the Yemeni who testified in front of a Senate subcommittee today about the impact of drones. That had to be the most awkward handshake in history.

"When we talk about courts we’re talking about a place where the struggle between contending forces is willy-nilly suspended: where in every case the decision arrived at is not the outcome of this struggle but the intervention of an authority which necessarily stands above and is foreign to the contending forces, an authority which is a position of neutrality between them and consequently can and must in every case decide which party to the dispute has justice on its side. The court implies, therefore, that there are categories which are common to the parties present (penal categories such as theft, fraud; moral categories such as honesty and dishonesty) and that the parties to the dispute agree to submit to them. Now, it is all this that the bourgeoisie wants to have believed in relation to justice, to its justice. All of these are weapons which the bourgeoisie has put to use in its exercise of power."

— Michel Foucault, On Popular Justice: An Interview with Maoists

If true, this is total bullshit.

Actually, I know exactly why I hate you Bill O’Reilly.

Suck on that, Lindsey Graham.

"As more information on the origin of the alleged perpetrators is coming to light, I am concerned to note in the social media a most unfortunate misunderstanding in this respect. The Czech Republic and Chechnya are two very different entities - the Czech Republic is a Central European country; Chechnya is a part of the Russian Federation."

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Statement by the Czech Ambassador

Well-done, America. Our geographical illiteracy has finally caused this to happen.

"This is Exhibit A of why the homeland is the battlefield…It sure would be nice to have a drone up there [to track the suspect.]"

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Sen. Lindsey Graham

I hate to use the phrase Orwellian, but “the homeland is the battlefield” is like the best way to describe a permanent war surveillance machine ideology.

This is the official twitter for Senator Lindsey Graham.

This is Lindsey Graham arguing we should violate the constitutional protections given to all suspects.

This is Lindsey Graham being an imperial asshole.

The NY Post is absolute trash.

Boston Police: No Arrests Have Been Made In Marathon Bombing

A spokesperson for the Boston Police Department said no suspects have been taken into custody yet after the bombing at the Boston Marathon.

“At this time, we haven’t been notified of any arrests or anyone apprehended,” the spokesperson said.

The New York Post reported that a “Saudi national who suffered shrapnel wounds in today’s blast” has been identified as “a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing.” The Boston PD spokesperson did not confirm that report.

“Honestly, I don’t know where they’re getting their information from, but it didn’t come from us,” said the spokesperson.

The Post report was attributed to “a law enforcement source.” According to the Post, the “suspect” is “currently being guarded in a Boston hospital.”

Nobody else is confirming this story so I wouldn’t trust the NY Post right now.