Apparently satisfied with getting another couple minutes of fame, convicted DC sniper John Muhammad has reversed course on his earlier decision and now wants to continue his federal appeal of his conviction. So, he’s changed his mind. Fine. Get on with it. Determine that no reversible error took place in the earlier trial and send this slime on to get his sentence applied.
The military junta government of Myanmar wasted no time once international aid shipments hit their soil: they immediately seized it. Reports are now coming in that they’ve basically repackaged it, stenciling the names of their generals on the boxes along with “Aid from the Kingdom of Thailand.” In short, they want to hide from their people that they’re incompetent and completely unable to provide for them. Additionally, the generals who are putting their names on the boxes are redirecting the shipments to their regions which are not necessarily the places the shipments need to go.
While still fiddling with visas for the international disaster workers, the junta has approved the US to send 1 - that’s “one” - C-130 cargo plane with relief supplies. Don’t get me wrong, the Hercules is an impressive craft, but the amount of supplies one can load onto 1 of them won’t put a dent into a disaster need of this magnitude. I’m also far less optimistic that any supplies we send will actually make it to the people who really need it.
In the end, I fear, the government there will do far more to kill more people than the disaster has done.
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