http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/long-isis-man-was-barbarically-burned-alive-america?akid=13084.294211.mo1n5X&rd=1&src=newsletter1036029&t=17
They burned him alive in an iron cage, and as he screamed and writhed in the agony of hell they made a sport of his death.
After
listening to one newscast after another rightly condemn the barbaric
killing of that Jordanian air force pilot at the bloody hands of ISIS, I
couldn’t sleep. My mind kept roaming the past trying to retrieve a
vaguely remembered photograph that I had seen long ago in the archives
of a college library in Texas.
Suddenly, around two in
the morning, the image materialized in my head. I made my way down the
hall to my computer and typed in: “Waco, Texas. Lynching.”
Sure
enough, there it was: the charred corpse of a young black man, tied to a
blistered tree in the heart of the Texas Bible Belt. Next to the burned
body, young white men can be seen smiling and grinning, seemingly
jubilant at their front-row seats in a carnival of death. One of them
sent a picture postcard home: “This is the barbeque we had last night.
My picture is to the left with a cross over it. Your son, Joe.”
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