In March of 1770, a group of British troops found themselves accosted by a mob of angry colonists in Boston. The soldiers were pelted with rocks, snowballs, and struck with clubs. Finally, one soldier fired his weapon in self-defense, and the other troops followed suit. When the smoke cleared, three colonists lay dead. Eight others were wounded, and two of those would later succumb to their injuries.
The event became known as the Boston Massacre, and was initially a public opinion coup for Patriot activists like Samuel Adams and Paul Revere, who held up the shooting as another bloody example of cruel British rule. At trial, the soldiers were successfully defended by future U.S. president John Adams, who highlighted the difference between the actual events and the propaganda that followed by saying, “Facts are stubborn things.”
Yesterday, 250 years and two months removed from that shooting on King Street, a second Boston Massacre may well have taken place on Beacon Street, in the shadow of the gold-domed Massachusetts State House. Nobody got shot, everyone walked away, but if COVID-19 was there, the massacre that may ensue will put the events on King Street so long ago in deep historical shade.
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William Rivers Pitt (Novemba 9, 1971 - Septemba 26, 2022). Alikuwa mwandishi, mwalimu, mwanaharakati wa kisiasa na mzazi mwenye upendo. Miongoni mwa kazi zake zilizochapishwa ni kitabu cha Pitt War on Iraq: What Team Bush doesn't Want You Know, pamoja na Scott Ritter, kilichapishwa na Profile Books mwaka wa 2002 kikielezea hoja za uongo za WMD zilizowekwa dhidi ya ushuhuda na data kutoka kwa mkaguzi wa silaha ambaye alisimamia uharibifu. ya akiba ya Iraq katika miaka ya 1990. Maangamizi Makubwa ya Iraki: Kusambaratika kwa Taifa: Kwa Nini Kunatokea, na Nani Anawajibika, kilichapishwa na Truthout mnamo 2014. Kitabu hiki kilitungwa na ripota wa Truthout Dahr Jamail.