Ted Rall - Thursday June 3, 1999 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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The bombing campaign continues, yet American Maniacs Hold Firm. The world's resolve to stop American atrocities against ethnic minorities forces it to act! (Man: African-Americans live in slums, are abused by the white regime's policemen, lose their homes to poverty, are forced into prison labor and are far more likely than whites to be executed for similar crimes!) Rights that citizens of civilized countries thake for granted- to a free college education, to free medical care- are denied to ordinary Americans... while monied elites pay themselves off! (Woman: But if the government paid to take out my cancer, my taxes would be higher than the mere 46% I pay now!) Ironically, the bombing campaign is hurting the very same people it's intended to help! (Man: This coalition missile took out an army baracks at Fort Benning. Tragically all of the victims were poor blacks unable to find better jobs due to systematic racism.) And no bombing can complete with their state controlled media propaganda! (Man 2: Sometimes I wonder about a country that's never elected a woman, a black or a jew as president. But I'm too busy working 80 hour weeks to buy things I see in ads to worry about it.) The difficult terrain of the suburbs makes a ground war unlikely- and so the bombing continues. (Man: With Ba'al as my witess, no bombs will stop me from exercising my right to pay low taxes if I ever win the lotto that I never play!

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