By Andrew Cline on 5.22.08 @ 12:07AM
What if the media approached every story as they approach Israel?
What if the media approached every story as they
approach Israel?
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Sept. 15, 1963) -- Freedom fighters today
protested the federal government's aggressive desegregation effort
by bombing a church used by the descendants of slaves. Four
children were killed. It was yet another in a series of attacks by
separatist fighters throughout the occupied Confederacy.
The rising tide of violence comes 100 years after the
Emancipation Proclamation, which freed African slaves throughout
the United States and Confederate States of America, and after
increasing signals from Washington that the occupied Confederacy
will be forced to end its traditional segregation laws.
Nine years ago, Washington sent troops to Topeka, Kans., and
other places to force the desegregation of schools, and locals here
expect more troops to enforce the coming federal law ending
segregation altogether. Bombings and other attacks are widely
viewed as a justified response to aggressive federal attempts to
undo local traditions and mores.
LAS VEGAS (Sept. 16, 2006) -- O.J. Simpson was arrested today for
trying to reclaim some of his own property from a memorabilia
dealer. The Hall of Fame running back said he merely came to
collect some autographed photos and other items that were his. But
the police arrested him and charged him with robbery, although
there is no dispute that the property was Simpson's, at least at
one time.
Simpson and his entourage were armed to protect themselves from
what they described as the dealer's aggression, saying he refused
numerous offers to negotiate the property's return so they had no
choice but to take it back by force.
"That sh*t was rightfully mine, man," Simpson said. "I wore that
suit during my trial. You saw me in it. Hell, everybody saw me in
it! It's MINE! I don't care how he got it, it's mine, and I'm
taking it back. And those Joe Namath cleats, too."
The dealer was available for comment, but frankly, we believe
Simpson's story, so we didn't bother interviewing him.
WARSAW (Sept. 1, 1939) -- The German Army invaded Poland today in
an effort to claim ancestral lands wrongly taken from the German
people by Western powers 20 years before and to protect Germanic
people from increasingly violent attacks by Poles, the German
government announced.
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler had attempted repeatedly to
negotiate with Poland for the return of Danzig and the "Polish
corridor" to Germany, but his efforts to achieve a peaceful return
of traditionally German lands were rebuffed. After a summer in
which the Polish people escalated their attacks on ethnic Germans
within this territory, Chancellor Hitler said he was left with no
choice but to defend his people from Polish aggression by extending
to them German military and political protection.
Chancellor Hitler's move to protect the more than 1 million
Germans living under Polish occupation was hailed throughout
Germany, where Hitler is enormously popular. Britain and France
claim that there are fewer than 750,000 German minorities living in
Poland and that there is no evidence any of them have been abused.
But in Germany, stories of violent attacks by Poles are common.
Chancellor Hitler assured Great Britain, which has a treaty
obligation to protect Poland, that his move was purely defensive in
nature and the German military posed no threat to peaceful Poles or
to the British people.
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Law, Military, Israel, Africa
