Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
Public support in the U. S. for the war against Iraq was founded on a multitiered edifice of falsehood and deceit, coordinated by the U. S. government and faithfully amplified by the corporate media.