Had Bob Marley written about Rosa Parks, he would have probably sang: Get down, sit down/ sit down for your rights.

On this day in 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala. -- leading to her arrest and the birth of the U.S. civil rights movement.

A CBC Radio report cited an immigration lawyer as saying poor Conrad could conceivably be barred from re-entering Canada after he goes to Chicago and does his perp walk thing later today.

This lawyer (sorry, name escapes me) said it's entirely up to the discretion of the immigration officer. They could decide that the charges hanging over Black are enough to bar a non-citizen like him from the country.

Update: Conrad did show up in court today and pleaded not guilty. Let the games begin! And on Saturday, Immigration Minister Joe Volpe said the government wouldn't bar Black from re-entry to the True North Strong and Free.

Since it worked so well in the U.S., the American occupation forces decided to do a little image-burnishing by buying off Iraqi newspapers to plant good-news stories.

OK, a bit wordier than "Mission Accomplished," but Dubya now hopes to build on that historic achievement of the world's mightiest war machine smacking down a sanctions-depleted army in only three weeks!

The legendary reporter spoke Tuesday with Democracy Now! to elaborate on an article in the current New Yorker: Up in the Air: Where is the Iraq war headed next?