Where Is The Outrage?

Note: I wrote this last year when I saw all the hoopla surrounding Michael Vick, Paris Hylton and so on. It's so amazing how the American public is so easily distracted by stupidity and senselessness. With the president admitting to torturing the detainees to the recent meeting VP "Shotgun" Dick Cheney had planning and staging terrorist attacks, yet the American public remains numb. The society has been dumbed down to the point that the people don't care. When the fighting broke out between Russia and the Republic of Georgia, people here thought that the state of Georgia (USA) was being attacked. This is the real America. Where is the outrage???

Wow, with all the problems in the world, why all the outrage over the Michael Vick case? Whitey is up in arms over dog fighting and has been calling for Michael Vick’s head ever since the allegations surfaced. I heard dog lovers speak of these “poor animals being tortured.” WHAT??? The federal government has a policy of torturing detainees (human beings) in secret detention centers all over the world. Where’s the outrage in that? Animal rights? How about human rights? In the U.S. government’s kidnapping and torture program, they’ve taken children as young as seven years old. Where is the outrage? With the slaughter of cows, chickens, hogs, turkeys and fish, where is the outrage? Raised in crowded, unsanitary conditions and shipped off to the market for human consumption, where many get sick and even die. Where is the outrage?

White people treat their dogs better than Black people. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said a long time ago that whitey would set a place at their table for a dog before they would a Black man. I’m sure most of you have already seen the news that Michael Vick has agreed to plead guilty in the dog fighting case. It’s bad enough that his boys turned state’s evidence against him and now his NFL career is in jeopardy. And to add further insult, the state of Virginia announced last week that they will be filing charges against Vick as well. This bullshit is pathetic.

America’s corporate media has helped to create a bloodlust for Michael Vick. I would not be surprised if a lynch mob is down at the courthouse the day he enters his plea. And speaking where is the outrage:

Where is the outrage (whitey in particular) for the Jena Six in Louisiana? An injustice is taking place before our very eyes, the target our children. Six young Black men face prison time over a fight with a white boy. One of the boys has been convicted by an all white jury, and faces a possible 22 years in prison. The other five boys were charged with attempted murder and face a possible sentence up to 100 years if convicted. Where’s whitey’s outrage when the prosecutor told the Black students at an assembly that he can ruin their lives with the stroke of a pen? These same devils speak of America being this beacon of human rights and justice in the world, but have problems giving Black people justice (due process). It’s blatant hypocrisy and these devils are full of shit.

Where is the outrage in the Kenneth Foster case? An innocent Black man is about to be executed by the state of Texas on August 21, 2007. The state acknowledged that Mr. Foster did not commit the murder, however he was convicted and sentence to death under the states’ “law of parties” statute. I can’t help wondering how many whites have been sentenced to death under this same statute? And how about the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal? Despite the fact he was not given a fair trial and all the constitutional violations committed in the process, Mumia has been unsuccessful at trying to get his conviction overturned, much less a retrial despite the overwhelming evidence that supports such action. To this day, brother Mumia still sits on Pennsylvania’s death row. The Supreme Court has refused to hear his petition. He sits on death row even though, police coerced witnesses into giving false testimony, Mumia’s hands were never tested for gunpowder residue to see if he even fired a gun, and the deceased officer’s partner said that Mumia allegedly confessed to committing the crime, which the officer reported about 60 days later. And that was entered into evidence. Where is the outrage? Where is whitey’s outrage, since they’re torchlight of justice and human rights for the rest of the world?

Where is the outrage in Bush’s illegal NSA spying program? Where is the outrage in the passage of the Military Commissions Act? Patriot Act II? The president now has the power to designate ANYBODY as a terrorist/enemy combatant and take people into military custody indefinitely. Congress recently passed the so-called Protect America Act of 2007, which goes beyond just wiretapping. It was recently revealed that this same law permits physical searches and financial records gathering without a warrant. The Bush Idiocracy’s (administration for the sensitive) attorney general for national security, Ken Wainstein told former [In]Justice Department lawyer Bruce Fein the administration does not consider itself bound by Congressional restrictions. Where the hell is the outrage? The president is running afoul of the law and not even a wimper. Let’s not forget the president and his propaganda machine lied the nation into a war that has resulted in the deaths of over one million Iraqi people and close to 4,000 U.S. soldiers and no impeachment for these high crimes. But Michael Vick is indicted and on his way to prison for dog fighting. It’s good to know that the American people got their priorities straight.

It’s rampant hypocrisy and it’s a goddamn shame that people in this country sit around and pretend nothing is going on. The media has joined the government’s scheme and now journalistic integrity is dead. From cuts in education and healthcare to rising unemployment and outsourcing of American jobs to places like India and China, I ask where is the outrage? But it doesn’t matter, the latest media blitz has passed with Paris Hilton’s confinement, to K-Fed and Britney Spears’ custody battle to Lindsay Lohan’s drug induced madness to the media lynching of Michael Vick over dogs. What’s going to be the next media blitzkrieg event that takes our focus off of government scandals and corruption? When the next political scandal breaks, outrage will be nowhere to be found.

-Aquil Aziz