![You may remember that I hassled you to shell out actual money to read a New Yorker investigation about “allegations that members of the Jamaican security forces massacred dozens of innocents.” If you read it, thank you. If you didn’t, you have a fresh chance. Some wise person at newyorker.com sprung the article from behind the magazine’s paywall. You can read it here.
In a related link, the image above comes from a redacted U.S. Department of Homeland Security “Significant Incident Report.” Mattathias Schwartz, who wrote and reported the New Yorker story, has posted the incident report to his site. It’s here.
This story is gnawing at my conscience. It’s partly because there’s a significant U.S. component. As I wrote in my one previous post about this, “my government is sitting on a copy of a video that ‘could corroborate, or refute, allegations that members of the Jamaican security forces massacred dozens of innocents.’ Morally, if not legally, this amounts to obstruction of justice. Crap like this is why Wikileaks enjoys legitimacy.”
If you make time to read Schwartz’s story and emerge sharing my sense that the U.S. government should help confirm or refute these ghastly allegations by releasing its surveillance footage, please consider blogging, Tumblring, Facebooking, tweeting, etc. about the case. I’m groping my way toward trying to get something started via Twitter. Even simply retweeting this tweet of mine would be a help. I’m hoping any tweets about this push to release the video can include the hashtag #JamaicaMassacre and mention the president (@BarackObama).
If you have any ideas for how to do this better, please get in touch here or via quiggblog [at] gmail [dot] com. Thanks.](http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw9mliqDhb1qzex95o1_500.jpg)
You may remember that I hassled you to shell out actual money to read a New Yorker investigation about “allegations that members of the Jamaican security forces massacred dozens of innocents.” If you read it, thank you. If you didn’t, you have a fresh chance. Some wise person at newyorker.com sprung the article from behind the magazine’s paywall. You can read it here.
In a related link, the image above comes from a redacted U.S. Department of Homeland Security “Significant Incident Report.” Mattathias Schwartz, who wrote and reported the New Yorker story, has posted the incident report to his site. It’s here.
This story is gnawing at my conscience. It’s partly because there’s a significant U.S. component. As I wrote in my one previous post about this, “my government is sitting on a copy of a video that ‘could corroborate, or refute, allegations that members of the Jamaican security forces massacred dozens of innocents.’ Morally, if not legally, this amounts to obstruction of justice. Crap like this is why Wikileaks enjoys legitimacy.”
If you make time to read Schwartz’s story and emerge sharing my sense that the U.S. government should help confirm or refute these ghastly allegations by releasing its surveillance footage, please consider blogging, Tumblring, Facebooking, tweeting, etc. about the case. I’m groping my way toward trying to get something started via Twitter. Even simply retweeting this tweet of mine would be a help. I’m hoping any tweets about this push to release the video can include the hashtag #JamaicaMassacre and mention the president (@BarackObama).
If you have any ideas for how to do this better, please get in touch here or via quiggblog [at] gmail [dot] com. Thanks.
