death penalty

[Rhiannon]

You know, I think Jesus said it best when he said "Remove the plank from your own eye before attempting to remove the speck from your brother's eye". The US govt has a friggen log in its eye, and it's trying to remove the speck from Iraq's eye. Why do I say this? Well.....first of all, after 9/11, hundreds of Arabs and Muslims were arrested and imprisioned without any rights, no phone call, no lawyer, no trial. Then we get the great Patriot Act, which allows people to be treated in the very same way these poor Arabs and Muslims were treated. There are 10 states in the US with a 13-17% poverty level, and ten states with 28% of children under 5 living at poverty level. Puerto Rico has a overwhelming 40-50% poverty rate, and I'm not talking about too poor to go to Mcdonalds, I'm talking poor as in washing your clothes in the river, living in a shanty and doing dishes in a bucket kind of poor. (Yet the funny thing is that there are over 53,000 Puerto Ricans that are somehow involved in the military, whether it be reserves or active). Money is being taken from public schools to be used for vouchers. Healthcare benefits have been cut. Money is being pumped into a war that will only benefit a few, the petroleum companies. Yet the US govt rushes out on its white horse to "save the world from terrorism" when noone in the world really supports us. I think we should point at our own president first (not mine tho, i cant vote for him) and fix our own problems before going to "fix" other people's problems.