A Black Life That Didn't Matter

"The guards were not culpable because “none of them expressed any belief that a stomachache could result in her death,” Ms. Becker [the prosecuter] said in an interview.

Staff members receive no medical training that could have helped them assess Ms. Dockery’s condition. “I am pretty sure she is going through withdrawals,” Tiffany Faigh, the work-release coordinator, wrote in an email to seven other employees. “She claims she hasn’t ate since she has been here, which is probably why her stomach hurts.”"

That's the point -- no medical training to assess her condition -- but they assessed it anyway: "pretty sure" it's withdrawal; "probably' her stomach ache due to not eating. If you are not medically trained your duty is to call someone who is and if someone dies because you are practicing medical diagnosis without a license then you are guilty of criminally negligent homicide (involuntary manslaughter). The failure to prosecute is a political, not a legal, decision. It's not that they didn't listen, they didn't care.

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‘I’m Going to Die Here,’ She Told the Guards. They Didn’t Listen.

The nation’s jails can be dangerous, or even deadly, for sick inmates like Lamekia Dockery. Often, no one is held accountable.

Biden sells out for a mess of pottage!

Run Joe Run -- right out of the Democratic Party! Any doubts about Biden? He sold out the DP candidate for a $200,000 speakers fee. This is just the kind of Wall Street Democrat we don't want in the coalition. Enemies of the working class come in many forms, but once exposed progressives shouldn't fall for their blandishments. This NYT exposé should end Biden's presidential bid once and for all -- he sold his chances for a mess of pottage.

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Joe Biden’s Paid Speech Buoyed the G.O.P. in Midwest Battleground

The former vice president’s address in October helped Fred Upton, a vulnerable Republican, win re-election in Michigan. Mr. Biden earned $200,000 for the speech.

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Remembering Luxemburg and Liebnecht

"The German communist leaders were assassinated in 1919 as the Spartacist revolt was crushed by the “Freikorps,” a far-right grouping of demobbed German soldiers who had refused to give up their weapons after the German surrender in World War I, on the orders of Social Democrat Party leaders Friedrich Ebert and Gustav Noske." No wonder the Communist Party and the Social Democrats couldn't unite against Hitler -- when push came to shove the Social Democrats ordered the ultra-right to kill the Communist leaders. Not a good recommendation for coalition politics. Today the Social Democrats are pro-NATO and allies with US Imperialism and collaborate in the conservative anti-Socialist government of Angela Merkel.

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Berlin pays its respects to Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht

Ben ChackoMonday, January 14, 2019 Berlin pays its respects to Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht × You can read 19 more articles this month Please help support the Morning Star by subscribing here by Ben Chackoin Berlin THOUSANDS marched through Berlin yesterday to pay their respects 100 years aft...

The Mongols Biker Club & The Government

SUNDAY SERMON (1-13-19): "Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them." --Matthew 7:16-20 Why this quote from The Sermon on the Mount (The Communist Manifesto of its day)? Well, because this story about the Mongols Biker Club is an instantiation of Jesus' sermon in so far as the Mongols are the fruit of the society they have grown up in, they reflect in miniature the capitalist society of "USA, USA". Consider the following quote: “These men, fueled by, based on the evidence which you’ve heard, by rage and methamphetamine, empowered by these symbols that they wear like armor, roaming the world like urban predators searching for people to victimize,” Mr. Welk said". Welk, the prosecutor, could have been describing how many of the poor and oppressed of the world view US Imperialism and it's military (let alone minority communities in the US with relation to the police) and the loyalty they show towards their logo is analogous to the pagan flag worship inculcated by the US government (just replace "methamphetamine" with "addiction to the natural resources and wealth of others"). The Mongols defend themselves from the accusation they are a criminal organization because of the violence associated with some of their members with the following argument: "Mr. Yanny [Mongol's lawyer] also stated that crimes carried out by Mongols were “spontaneous rogue acts of individuals” that were not hatched or approved by club officers. Referring to the brutal 1991 beating of Rodney King by a group of Los Angeles police officers, he told the jury “that doesn’t make the L.A.P.D. a criminal organization."” Really? Shoot a police person and it's a crime; a police person shoots an unarmed, and even surrendering or non-violent ordinary citizen (especially a minority person) and it's .... What? The Mongols, the Police, and the Military, what do they have in common?-- "Ye shall know them by their fruits."

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Jury Orders Mongols Biker Club to Forfeit Its Logo, the ‘Holy of Holies’The verdict by the California jury was not the final word: The judge said he would first consider the club’s constitutional rights to free speech.

Temple of the "Flayed Lord" Found

We can't be too judgemental as our culture worships by engaging in ritual cannibalism by drinking the blood and eating the flesh of a "Crucified Lord" -- just imagine the psyche damage to the unconscious of children who have to give up the belief in a fat jolly elf to whom they leave offerings of milk and cookies for a god whose human body and blood they have to eat and drink! No wonder we have a mental health problem and teenagers driven to drugs!

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Archaeologists Find Pre-Columbian Temple of ‘Flayed Lord’ in Central MexicoMexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History said archaeologists had found the first temple dedicated to an important fertility god, whose worshipers were said to wear the skin of sacrificial victims.