Facially Troubling, Strange and Tasteless Gifts

This happened in the course of a hearing of a case involving the rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl-

"Only after the trial did defense counsel learn that there had been unreported ex parte contacts between the jury and the judge, that jurors and a bailiff had planned a reunion, and that “either during or immediately following the penalty phase, some jury members gave the trial judge chocolate shaped as male genitalia and the bailiff chocolate shaped as female breasts.”"

Executed Today, from whom I got this news- and the link- you can read more of this at Above the Law.

Make Peace with your Mind...

Alexander Cockburn: War and Peace:

"“You have sacrificed nearly ten thousand American lives—the flower of our youth. You have devastated provinces. You have slain uncounted thousands of the people you desire to benefit. You have established reconcentration camps. Your generals are coming home from their harvest bringing sheaves with them, in the shape of other thousands of sick and wounded and insane to drag out miserable lives, wrecked in body and mind. You make the American flag in the eyes of a numerous people the emblem of sacrilege in Christian churches, and of the burning of human dwellings, and of the horror of the water torture. ”"

Obama?

No- Roosevelt.

Yes, he won the Nobel too.

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