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“Life was fleeting, I had learned, and death guaranteed. There had to be some greater purpose to it than the routine existance of daily life. ”
― Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim's Journey to Guantanamo and Back
― Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim's Journey to Guantanamo and Back
“Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“Freelance investigative reporter Danny Casolaro was looking into the Cabazon/Wackenhut projects as part of a larger conspiracy investigation at the time he was found dead in a West Virginia motel room in 1991, allegedly a suicide victim. He had told friends he was convinced that "spies, arms merchants and others were using the reservation as a low-profile site on which to develop weapons for Third World armies, including the Nicaraguan Contras.”
― Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion
― Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion
“Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed. —I. F. STONE, 1907 – 1989”
― Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion
― Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion
“One of the questions I have been asked many times since this story broke is this: Now that the facts are out there, what can we do? My answer, depressing and cynical as it may be, is always the same. Not much. Not now. And certainly not until the American public and its Congressional representatives regain control of the CIA and shred the curtain of secrecy that keeps us from discovering these crimes of state until its too late.
Perhaps when the government officials who presided over these outrages are safely in their crypts, and their apologists and cheerleaders are buried woth them, future historians can finally call these men to account for the miseries they caused. Even if that's all that ever happens, it will be fitting and just, because the favorable judgment of history is ultimately what they craved.”
― Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion
Perhaps when the government officials who presided over these outrages are safely in their crypts, and their apologists and cheerleaders are buried woth them, future historians can finally call these men to account for the miseries they caused. Even if that's all that ever happens, it will be fitting and just, because the favorable judgment of history is ultimately what they craved.”
― Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion
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