Meanwhile, In Our Own Glorious Empire

Lost in the Boston coverage was this Times op-ed from a Gitmo prisoner, who oddly enough has not been charged, not been tried, and not been released!  While we wallow in our self-pity about some pathetic asshole who tried to blow up a marathon, we are probably not laser-focused on what atrocities our glorious American Empire is up to at this very moment.  The Boston bomber will be caught, and most likely charged and tried, but our America will continue to bomb, kill, and torture without mercy all around the world, and somehow, not so many people will get as worked up about that shit as did about Boston.  That's fucking bullshit, but it is fucking bullshit that serves the interests of our government and their masters because once again Americans are scared of some mostly-harmless and almost completely fictional enemies while the Empire wages war and business unabated.  The dumb fuckers were all over this shit doing the business of their overlords: IBD and The NY Post.  The last thing those sort of idiots want is any critical thinking about Gitmo, torture, or anything else that interrupts the business of empire.