.... the instinctive reaction for the US authorities to put the military on the streets show this has a long way to go. The State is doubling-down on the State-sanctioned violence and oppression that has precipitated and inflamed the crisis, instead of seeking urgent and lasting resolutions inside their own agencies of the State where the problems clearly lie. The parallels with the bungling public health response to the pandemic inside public health state agencies is not coincidental but symptomatic of broad institutional decay and dysfunction.
It wont end until the whole of the militarized apparatus of State oppression is dismantled and scrapped now. The military should only ever be retained for defending against external threats, never turned upon the people who pay their wages, that's the final turn of the vicious spiral into anarchic civil war (suspension of habeas corpus). Police were only ever meant to be Officers of the Peace, never Law Enforcement. After total War the military hands over control of the streets to Officers of the Peace; militarisation of the police and putting military on the streets is naturally escalating society back to wartime conditions.
None of this is unexpected, it has been happening gradually in clear sight for those willing to see, only now it has accelerated to the point when it is plain for all to see. Effectively, USA is already in the early stages of a state of civil war.
Abraham Lincoln spoke of government "of the people, by the people, for the people". This was the ideal of democracy. It seems it has now become government "against the people, versus the people, over the people". Is this is what American "democracy" has become? No thinking person is advocating anarchy. Without basic law and order, corporations and other criminals would take over. We do need community-level policing. The problem is indeed the militarization of what should be a constabulary of local residents. Constables should be known to other local residents on a personal level. Even in big cities, this is possible on a neighborhood-to-neighborhood basis. Constables should display their names with pride. Military and paramilitary forces should only be used against foreign threats. Unfortunately, the Military-Industrial Complex that Dwight Eisenhower warned about has become too profitable to be sustained by defense and has increasingly relied on offense to keep up the revenues. Political bribery (lobbying) means that governments are for sale to the highest bidder. _____ What can be done? Constitutional changes should outlaw lobbying and limit police use of force. The military should be be used only for national defense, not for international meddling nor domestic political purposes. Military budgets should be reduced in an orderly fashion so as not to trigger a military takeover. The military should be used domestically primarily to control police excesses. As I mentioned, Law Enforcement should be replaced with local constabularies with only a basic federal force to keep the police in line. The whole dirty little system of spying on and keeping files on citizens should be dismantled. It would be best if this were done peacefully but we all know that more likely those who wield the power now won't give it up without a fight. |
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An autopsy report talks about "potential intoxicants"?
It's a preliminary report only, the final report is yet to come, presumably with a toxic report. The coroners report is in, and he died from medical problems in conjunction with drugs, the cop did not kill him.
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The autopsy report attributes his death to “being restrained, his underlying health conditions, and any potential intoxicants in his system”
It is an autopsy report. It is supposed to be based exclusively on medical science.
You cannot attribute as a cause of death something for which there is no evidence. “Any potential intoxicants” is something for which there is no evidence. Therefore it cannot be a cause of death.
The autopsy report is fundamentally flawed and part of an attempted cover up.
An autopsy report talks about "potential intoxicants"? I thought autopsies included blood tests, including intoxicants. Sounds like a cover-up to me too. Whether or not the coroner was a willing participant is the question. Coroners can be scared shitless of law enforcement brutality too. |
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I'm not even thinking about ecological disaster or weather wars at this point. But we still have 6 months left in the year to go. Wonder which one will be next...
Well, lots of months left to go until the U.S. presidential election. My bets are on at least one or more of the following happening: 1) Jewish person(s) targeted again, because hate crime. 2) Another school shooting. 3) The yearly hurricane destruction of the southeastern U.S. 4) Worldwide coordinated cyber attack. 5) Major oil tanker spill off the coast of a major coastal city and/or ecological wildlife preserve, many billions of $$$ damage. Possibly because of a hurricane. All engineered by Soros and the Globalists, of course.  |
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Thanks for posting that Jojo. It goes to show that there's always the one good apple in the barrel of rotten ones, the exception to the rule. More dialogue and less violent confrontation please. It's time for everyone to start talking about how to clean up and control law enforcement agencies. |
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Something tells me that things have changed a bit in the last 20 years.
No freaking kidding. |
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no police law enforcement cars to set on fire there. be pretty boring.
Get your terminology straight! Think "law enforcement state" or "law enforcement brutality". |
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Thanks Phil. Wow. Land of the free and home of the brave. What brave law enforcement officers. They just laid a little freedom on those troublemakers who had the audacity to occupy their own home. |
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All I get when I try to view it is a black screen. Censorship? What does it show? |
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Good morn Bitcoinland Nine five sixty-three dollars (Bitcoinaverage). Still going sideways In the mid- nine thousands range. Time for five digits. Go Bitcoin go go Bitcoin go, go Bitcoin go. Go go Bitcoin go. it is people of all ethnicity that are fed up with the extrajudicial killings and general institutional thuggery
must be nice to live somewhere where you do not fear your police
This is why white protesters seem to outnumber blacks and it's happening nation-wide. It's not all about white men killing a black man. It's more about armed police killing an unarmed civilian over a non-violent crime. Americans used to be appalled at Hitler's and Stalin's law enforcement policies. Now they're getting it at home. |
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When I was a kid, the President of the United States and Bankers and Corporate Officers were respected. Sh*t changes and Sh*t flows downhill...thus we are in the new gilded age of Monopolies and Power/Wealth
concentration....it likely will only get worse until some kind of 'adult supervision' in ethical business practices/wages and accountability of public officials comes to pass...but it is not gonna be soon....IMHO, sorry to say.  It takes time. Anti-trust laws and labor unions didn't happen overnight, nor did the degeneration of unions from workers' collectives to extortion organizations. Collectives are collectives, whether they are labor collectives like unions, capital collectives like banks and other corporations, political collectives like royal dynasties and communist parties, or social collectives like religions. Collectives eventually become corrupt and must be taken down. Sometimes they can be taken down relatively peacefully like the Soviet Union. More often they require violent revolutions. Let's hope the Bitcoin revolution is non-violent. |
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Somewhere along the way everything changed. They switched from friendly blue to intimidating black. They started hiding their faces. They separated themselves from society. They developed an adversarial "us against them" stance and started treating the community (their bosses) as the enemy. They hid behind the anonymity of their uniforms and refused to give their names. They abdicated all personal responsibility.
A large part of this coincides with the militarization of the police. Flooding the forces with surplus military equipment, hiring direct from the military (and assuming military training with no decompression can substitute for civilian police training), shifting patrols so cops don't patrol their own neighborhoods, not hiring out of those neighborhoods, the various "war on XX" initiatives all promote that us vs. them mentality. https://fee.org/articles/the-militarization-of-americas-police-a-brief-historyThat's exactly what I was talking about... militarization. If it does turn into a complete civil war, it will be the state that drew first blood. It's not really principally a war between the public and the police. It's a war between the government and the people. That's what makes the second amendment to the constitution of the USA so meaningless in the 21st century. What good are the arms American citizens are allowed to bear compared to military weapons? Bring a knife to a gunfight? Bring a gun to a missile fight? |
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I see a country descending into open rebellion against its oppressive, unjust, inequitable Police State.
There is no greater symbolism of the endless systemic oppression than an agent of the state kneeling on a totally incapacitated dying man in the street.
I don't see this ending until vast swathes of the dystopian police state apparatus, ideology and funding empires are dismantled and dumped in the dustbin of history. They cannot be reformed peacefully so they will only go violently.
The people have finally woken up and The People always get the final say in matters of the nature of the state. Look it up, it's in the Constitution. There's 40 million unemployed Americans and probably tens of millions more disaffected enough to take to the streets. At most the US armed state agencies could rally perhaps a few million. In the end its just math.
Ultimately its about freedom.
When I was a kid, the police were respected members of the community, the boys in blue. They walked a beat and knew everyone by name and everyone knew them by name. We didn't fear and hate them. We respected and appreciated them. Somewhere along the way everything changed. They switched from friendly blue to intimidating black. They started hiding their faces. They separated themselves from society. They developed an adversarial "us against them" stance and started treating the community (their bosses) as the enemy. They hid behind the anonymity of their uniforms and refused to give their names. They abdicated all personal responsibility. What is long overdue is individual identification of all police officers. It should be mandatory for all police officers (except those on active undercover duty) be identifiable. Their names and badge numbers should be clearly displayed on the fronts and backs of all uniforms. They should also be displayed on the outside of their upper arms and thighs, so would be no doubt about the personal identity of all officers even if camera angles were obscured. This would be an obvious first step toward re-integrating the police into decent society. Hiring practices must also be re-evaluated. As long as police officers are social pariahs, only social misfits choose to become police officers. Most normal people don't choose a career that leads to ostracism unless they are already outsiders, hence the bullied-in-the-schoolyard-and-seeking-revenge syndrome seen in so many of today's police departments. Better psychological testing must be used to weed out the violent, sadistic, authority-oriented applicants. It's perhaps not as bad in Toronto as in most big American cities, and in fact it's getting much better since the confrontations between the public and the police during the 2010 G-20 meetings. More individual officers are making an attempt to reintegrate themselves and the evil Police Association is slowly losing it's power. It still has a long way to go though. There are still individual officers who hide behind their badges and think they're better than the law. Some are simply arrogant doofuses like "Officer Bubbles": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGMTm3QRwEcBubbles did not even lose his job. They seem to forget who's the employee and who's the employer. America calls itself "The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave". You can ask George Floyd's family about freedom, and there's nothing brave about 4 fully armed police officers murdering a handcuffed, unarmed man over a $20 non-violent crime. The time has come to start treating police officers personally, as individual men and women, not as faceless uniform wearers, and it is time for police officers to start realizing they are members of the human race and start acting like it. It would be best if they/we could affect this change peacefully. If not it seems like civil war is close, the people versus the state. It would be a very bloody war indeed. |
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Buenos dias Bitcoinland. Still in the mid-$9xxx range... currently $9539USD/$13137CAD (Bitcoinaverage). Go Bitcoin go. Are you ready?
Are your bags full?
The train won’t wait for long!
My bags have been packed for years.  Always ready to head off to the next station on this incredible journey. |
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I think you're reading the chart wrong. Gen X and Millennials don't have as much as boomers had when they were the same age.
Sorry, but it's you who's reading it wrong. It isn't about wealth per capita. It's about percentage of the total. The Boomers had a slightly higher percentage of the wealth at the age of 40 than the Millennials did at that age, but they also had a much higher percentage of the population due to their great numbers. The previous generations had been greatly reduced in numbers by two world wars and the great depression. Edit: You posted while I was typing. First of all. The fiat-currency/central-banking scam has nothing to do with Baby Boomers. It existed long before they were born and really kicked in with Richard Nixon, who was hated by most Boomers. What I was responding to by bolding some of your text was the "us versus them" confrontational tone. Of course I'm against the traditional banking system. I'm a Baby Boomer. I don't even have a bank account. All my money is in Bitcoin. |
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We can just stop using the boomer version of money which is fiat backed by nothing. That would tip the scales back in our favor.
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I read this name mindrust a lot, can someone remind me who that was ??
JJG perhaps??
A limp wrist who sold his bitcoins. |
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This graph is staggering:  I'm not a commie, but there's no way we can have any semblance of stability on any level with this kind of inequality. Just wait. Your turn will come. It takes time to accumulate wealth. It even takes time and experience to learn how to accumulate wealth. Even inheritances usually take many years. Young people tend to spend and borrow. The wealthy tend to live longer. This has been happening since time immemorial. |
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