The BBC World News report on the latest developments on the protests in Burma. The country's military leadership has turned its guns on the people.
According to a report on yesterday's Rachel Maddow radio show, similar events occurred 19 years ago when the people rose up against the government. Back then, the military disguised themselves as protesters and acted out violently, in order to legitimize a military backlash. This resulted in the slaughter of thousands of innocent people, and suppression of the revolution. Well, the dictatorship is at it again. According to sources, the military has recently invested in hundreds of monk's robes and encouraged soldiers to shave their heads, so that they can disguise themselves as protesting monks and repeat the violence of the past.
Meanwhile, Bush has been trying to stick his nose into the situation, because - ahem! - Burma has oil...
Stephen Colbert reports that, while visiting London, presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani claimed that he is "one of the four or five best known Americans in the world".
The Rocky Mountain Collegian, a student run newspaper in Colorado, ran an editorial this week entitled, "Taser This... FUCK BUSH!", in hopes of sparking a debate about free speech.
Hardball's Chris Matthews sat down with author Joe Conason and Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink, to discuss the student who was brutally tasered, and the government's continued free speech violations.
During a conference with Senator John Kerry (D-MA) at the University of Florida, a student got up and asked a question about why Kerry conceded the presidential election, when there was evidence of voter suppression and fraud. Before he could get an answer, cops moved in to arrest him, dragged him away without issuing charges and proceeded to taser him into submission. You can hear him screaming in agony when the cops fired.
Since when does asking a question merit electrocution?
