Andrew Sullivan has already said on MSNBC that these revelations will soon result in international indictments for war crimes for senior Administration officials. Will there be any fallout in the US?

Vanity Fair – “The Green Light”

Amy Goodman interviews Philippe Sands on Democracy Now!

I can’t help but marvel at the mainstream media. While Fox News devotes hours to Obama’s supposed racial hypocrisy and the false meme spreads that his pastor Rev. Wright gave sermons that were “anti-white” or “anti-semitic,” the shocking revelations that expose true racism in America merit barely a mention before they disappear in one news cycle.

Videos have been obtained by the Charleston Post and Courier from dashboard cameras of the South Carolina Highway Patrol that show officers repeatedly using their police cars to intentionally run over black crime suspects, while using racial epithets and congratulating themselves for the hits.

While the national discussion goes on about whether Obama has gone far enough to disassociate himself from a preacher whose fiery words “God damn America” (for its racism) have touched a very white nerve, the fact remains that today in this country, people who are not white face a different and often more dangerous experience of life than people who are white. When a person who has been entrusted with the public safety and given special privileges in order to enforce the law, says “you’d better run, n****r, because I’m fixin’ to kill you” as Lance Cpl. S.C. Garren of South Carolina said on tape, it makes it absurd to hear that a black pastor’s rage against the system that allows that is in any way wrong or extreme.

We control our conversation; let’s have the one we need to have.