Stopping crime before it happens is a great idea, but stopping young men for “walking while black” — touted by true believers as the same thing — is a game played by an occupying army.

The tactic is called stop-and-frisk. As practiced by many police departments, including New York’s, it amounts to blatant racial profiling. Stop-and-frisk makes it impossible for young men of color to lead normal lives, to walk outside without fear of preemptive police harassment. The long-term hatred and tension it engenders does far more harm to a community than all the questionable good that proponents ascribe to it. Security based on racism is a sham.

So I join in the celebration of Judge Shira A. Scheindlin’s ruling Monday in Manhattan’s Federal District Court, declaring the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy unconstitutional. She accused the city of “checkpoint-style policing” in minority communities and wrote in her decision, according to the New York Times [2]: “Blacks are likely targeted for stops based on a lesser degree of objectively founded suspicion than whites.”

BANGKOK, Thailand -- Hindus and Christians in eastern India refused to allow the burial funeral of a woman who converted from Hinduism to Christianity, and her body remained in dispute until police found a neutral site on government property.

The confrontation is one of the latest in Hindu-majority India where Hindus suffer problems after converting to Christianity, Islam, Buddhism or other religions.

Kanti Lakra, 60, died of kidney failure on August 12 in a hospital in Hazaribagh, in eastern India's Jharkhand state, according to the Times of India.

Last Rites

She had converted from Hinduism to Christianity several years earlier because her husband, Shiv Prakash Ram, was Christian.

Ram wanted to bury her body according to Christian tradition in Kesura, their village near Hazaribagh.

But the family were the only Christians among the village's Hindus, and Ram could not find a local cemetery.

Distraught and grieving, Ram tried to dig a grave in their village's

In what might be it's last gasp of investigative national security reporting before the finalizing of Jeff Bezos' CIA sponsored buyout, the Washington Post released an NSA internal audit from 2012 detailing thousands of violations of the FISA and other laws and regulations governing surveillance of Americans. Despite revealing literally thousands of instances of unauthorized collection that violated the law, the report whitewashed at least one seemingly deliberate violation. The Washington Post story failed to catch this that this operator error appears to have happened by design.

No one knows better than the African American as a whole that the brochure of America is better than the reality. Yet the consequence of the black church to the welfare of the African american human condition are not apparent to African americans as a whole. However, for enlightenment, it only needs to be asked “is the African American condition well today?” And then ask “What has been the institution or device African Americans have utilized to bring forth recovery, healing, and wellness in their community as a whole since being brought to the Americas and later implementation of the 13th amendment to the US constitution?” History will show it is the teachings of the church and more recent the mosque too. Since most African americans will admit their condition is not well(i.e. economically, legally, educationally, medically, spiritually), it only follows that the all the religious institutions used to bring wellness to this community of peoples has failed. And when a solution for repair is a time tested failure, it is time to try something else.

Why African American Christians Believe in their Oppressors Religion

While fruitlessly scouring the banks of the Potomac river for the mythical beast known as Robust Congressional Oversight, our eyes were drawn by the light of an eleven star constellation often hidden in the night and fog of post-constitutional America. Behind the clouds of official secrecy the judges of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) cast their invisible light onto the lives of the entire global family, illuminating our every word for the watchful generals and vengeful angels of the national security state.

The President, while defending the NSA's varied and all-encompassing spy program, justifies the practices by claiming that judicial review legalizes them. Few people are familiar with this court, its makeup and operations, or the scope of its authority. The evidence it sees is classified and unchallenged. The decisions it makes are state secrets. It is obfuscation to term this courts function review and even greater obfuscation to pretend that it is a neutral guardian of human rights.