BIG BROTHER: Making Sense Of The MOVE Bombing – By Gene Demby (Flashback)

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The first WACO. In 1985, when the US government collaborated with the Philadelphia police to bomb an entire city block, I finally recognized for the first time that the most powerful government in the world is controlled by career criminals.

Originally posted on RIELPOLITIK:

Source – constantinereport.com

– Talk to some of the folks who lived through the bombing of 62nd and Osage Avenue in West Philadelphia 30 years ago, and you’ll notice that they refer to the event by its full date. May 13, 1985.

That’s how Gerald Renfrow refers to it when we talk about the inferno. His house is about 30 yards from the compound on which the bomb was dropped — practically ground zero. He’d been living there since long before the bombing, and now he’s the block captain, trying to hold on to the home where he grew up and raised his own family.

That’s how Perry Moody refers to it, too. His house is on the north side of Pine Street. On that day three decades ago, he had been evacuated from the block but watched as the houses on the other side of the street were…

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