{"id":13676,"date":"2010-05-13T11:09:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T17:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13676"},"modified":"2010-05-13T11:09:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T17:09:39","slug":"move-25-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13676","title":{"rendered":"MOVE – 25 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Philadelphia houses burn in May 1985, after officials dropped a bomb on the MOVE house. Photo: AP<\/p><\/div>On 13 May 1985, Lieutenant Frank Powell, then chief of Philadelphia\u2019s bomb-disposal unit, lit the fuse to a C-4 and Tovex<\/a> bomb and dropped the satchel from a state police helicopter onto the roof of MOVE\u2019s Osage Avenue home.<\/p>\n

NPR is acknowledging 25 years gone by since this hideous event with a piece by Elizabeth Fiedler, “MOVE Fire Burdens Neighborhood, After 25 Years<\/a>.” Beneath Fielder’s byline is a link to WHYY where a piece by Susan Phillips, “Out of the rubble, MOVE still remains<\/a>“, is featured in the “More News” section.<\/p>\n

In my opinion, both pieces are misleadingly<\/a> feeble attempts to whitewash the state’s “ill-conceived” act of terror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 13 May 1985, Lieutenant Frank Powell, then chief of Philadelphia\u2019s bomb-disposal unit, lit the fuse to a C-4 and Tovex bomb and dropped the satchel from a state police helicopter onto the roof of MOVE\u2019s Osage Avenue home. NPR … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3yA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13676"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13687,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13676\/revisions\/13687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}