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Whatever happened to you cant do this to me. Im an American?
Medea Benjamin was manhandled in Cairo today. Help, she Tweeted. They Broke My Arm. Egypt Police. They didnt know who Medea Benjamin was or they didnt care. Democracy Now reports:U.S. peace activist Medea Benjamin was detained Monday at Cairos airport by Egyptian police without explanation. She says she was questioned, held overnight in an airport prison cell and then violently handcuffed by Egyptian officials, who dislocated her shoulder and broke her arm. She was then put on a plane and deported to Turkey, where she is now seeking medical treatment. We speak to her by telephone from the airport medical facility. Benjamin had intended to meet up with international delegates before traveling to Gaza for a womens conference. ...Too many people frittered away the Design Margin. It was spent and squandered by those both who felt it was immoral to be so rich and while simultaneously convinced these riches were inexhaustible. It happened because too many worked tirelessly to take America down a peg or two, out of spite; and from a sense of unassailable superiority. People who thought it was OK to blow the stash; open the borders; downsize the armed forces. Guys who believed you could churn out paper dollars and issue empty threats ad infinitum. Because like Paul Krugman once said: we can invent an alien invasion from outer space if we need to. And now they find their arms being broken by Cairo police. When and how did Medea Benjamin become a nobody? Maybe it happened this way: when those who dreamed of a weaker, helpless America forgot that in so doing they would also be bringing down themselves. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-03-05 |
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