Is this really war?
Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman
06/16/06
In 1985, Wilson Goode became the first U.S. mayor to bomb his own city. In an effort to rid a West Philadelphia neighborhood of a ragtag, violent, back-to-nature organization called Move, which had engaged in a shootout with police, Goode ordered explosives dropped on the Move house from a helicopter. The whole block of row houses burned, 61 homes in all. Eleven people were killed, five of them children. Some 250 people lost their homes. Goode came in for universal condemnation and ridicule. Too bad for him he didn't drop his bomb in a foreign country and call it war...
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0606f.asp
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Sheldon Richman
06/16/06
In 1985, Wilson Goode became the first U.S. mayor to bomb his own city. In an effort to rid a West Philadelphia neighborhood of a ragtag, violent, back-to-nature organization called Move, which had engaged in a shootout with police, Goode ordered explosives dropped on the Move house from a helicopter. The whole block of row houses burned, 61 homes in all. Eleven people were killed, five of them children. Some 250 people lost their homes. Goode came in for universal condemnation and ridicule. Too bad for him he didn't drop his bomb in a foreign country and call it war...
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0606f.asp
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 20. Jun, 14:24
