Anyone remember a man called Charles Stuart?

This was the guy from Boston, who claimed that unknown black assailants stabbed his wife to death as he took a wrong turn into a black neighborhood.The police cast a wide net to apprehend the perpetrators arresting every black person in sight.Later, Stuart's brother, remorseful, told the police it was all a concocted sham.Charles Stuart saw his wife standing in the way of his desire for the high life and decided to get rid of her to collect insurance. When his story unraveled, he committed suicide jumping off a bridge over the Charles River.

This is not the first time that an innocent black man has been fingered by white criminals;what makes it easy is that people are so easily swayed by their own prejudices that they tend to believe a white criminal over innocent black people.

This story came to me as I think about Bush &Co.'s elaborately constructed stories about 9/11, Iraqi WMD's, Al Qaeda connections, Yellowcake,beheadings of prisoners by Arabs, all smell like the Charles Stuart story.As each layer gets peeled for the fraud that it is, a new 'reality' is created and, in our prejudice, we are willing to give credence to the stories built by Rove, Cheney and other enablers.

The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars but ourselves.

What to do, what to do? :shrug:

our thinking and wait for what Paul Krugman has called Our Moment of Revulsion to gather force. Patience is a virtue in these cases as the perps, given sufficient rope and time, tend to destroy themselves.

Only white people are smart enough to do that.

Racist much?

the events of the past few years, given the PNAC narrative and the open advocacy of a Pearl Harbor like event,may well be home grown.But, like all other things of this sort, we have to have evidence.No racism of any kind is implied.

There are numerous examples of perpetrators blaming their own crimes on somebody "different."

Remember Tawanda Brawley (I'm sure I've got her name slightly wrong). She fooled a lot of people, including Al Sharpton, into believing that she was attacked and raped by white men. Turned out she faked the attack on herself.

Susan Smith, who drowned her children in South Carolina, blamed a black man for highjacking her car and children.

Scott Peterson's lawyer suggested that satanists in a tan van kidnapped his wife.

Remember when the bomb exploded in Oklahoma City the press immediately suspected that it was Muslim extremists. It was a blond, blue-eyed American vet.

The right-wingers were blaming the house fires in Maryland on "eco-terrorists." Latest theory is that it was a group of young men who did it for laughs.

When the press and the White House are jumping up and down pointing their fingers at somebody as the perpetrator, it is worth taking a second look at the finger-pointers, imo. Maybe they did it themselves.

in the face of increasing evidence of fraudulent manipulation by Bush & Co., that the demonization of Arabs, like the demonization of blacks, makes the task of Bush and his perps easier.May be that was the intent after all.

of by Bushco are like the fake stories in the Boston case.

You injected the race angle.

What a very, very ugly chapter in our history :(

then gave the gun to his brother

forefront of the struggle for human rights here and abroad, has entered into a silent collusion with the Republicans to turn the other way when issues concerning Arabs/Muslims are involved.The tacit approval for the continuing demonization of Arabs makes them enablers just like the many good citizens of Boston who were quick to put the blame on blacks and stood silent when entire neighborhoods were rounded up to apprehend the culprit.