Harry Belafonte was the darling of the media, but you would never had known that he opened the last sessions of the International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity committed by the Bush administration, last Friday. The comments that received all the attention was his speech at the Assocation of Performing Arts Presenters on Saturday.
Was this the eternal lesson in how one word ("the new Gestapo of Homeland Security") obliterates all else? Assuredly. But, had that word not been pronounced and ceased upon, what are the odds the even a line - let alone the short articles also quoting the performer as saying that "you can be arrested, and not charged. You can be arrested, and have no right to counsel" - would have been published?