militarizing the police goes with the criminalization of homelessness, poverty, social and psychological issues that create a class of people that are marginalized as it is. $90 million should be used to create shelters with the support needed to help people deal with the problems of substance abuse, underemployment and mental health issues. We are not asleep simply astounded by the partisan chaos at all levels of government and those who support it.
“‘Cop Cities’ are infrastructure for a police state, at odds with the very idea of a free society … Only We the People can solve the problem now, through awareness and non-violent activism … America is standing at a critical crossroads, between what Lincoln called “a new birth of freedom” and an authoritarian future inching closer and closer every day … There’s nothing theoretical about any of this. It’s very real and it’s happening now.” Great Writing … Thank You for doing this!
Cops are outta control by the general public. Police unions are powerful, particularly in major metros. Our deeply corrupted and corruptive court system, particularly at the upper federal levels are nothing more than protective devices for the Uber-rich and major corporate interests, particularly egregious in their contra-constitutional "qualified immunity" "rulings".
On a Constitutional level, there is no provision whatsoever for courts to "rule". Determinative laws are the province of Congress and the respective state legislatures. Judges, because of the tight connexion between the American Bar Association and Temple Court, in City of London, of which the ABA is a subordinate entity; no right to CREATE laws.
Separation of powers is rapidly being destroyed by the ruling elites in our ruptured republic.
For the longest time, it seemed, those on the Far Right were harping about "concentration camps", which they claimed were being set up by Barack Obama's DHS. Nothing of the sort was ever in place. And now? We see Cop Cities, a separate housing and training scheme for police-with who knows how much backing from the same people who accused Obama of Fascism!
They probably killed Karen Silkwood, but I guess they successfully buried the evidence. I love the Gettysburg Address reference because I am hoping our nation could have “a new birth of freedom.”
Shouldn’t the DOJ be involved were peoples rights are being trampled on I’m not a lawyer just seems to me that perhaps the federal government should be involved
Thank you, Marianne. You were on point, as usual. Waking up is not done just but drinking coffee. I believe thinks are changing for the highest good of all. However, I just don't know how many more senseless killing we have to endure to make the necessary changes. I guess everything has its way to unfold. Much Love, Light, and Peace.
militarizing the police goes with the criminalization of homelessness, poverty, social and psychological issues that create a class of people that are marginalized as it is. $90 million should be used to create shelters with the support needed to help people deal with the problems of substance abuse, underemployment and mental health issues. We are not asleep simply astounded by the partisan chaos at all levels of government and those who support it.
“‘Cop Cities’ are infrastructure for a police state, at odds with the very idea of a free society … Only We the People can solve the problem now, through awareness and non-violent activism … America is standing at a critical crossroads, between what Lincoln called “a new birth of freedom” and an authoritarian future inching closer and closer every day … There’s nothing theoretical about any of this. It’s very real and it’s happening now.” Great Writing … Thank You for doing this!
Cops are outta control by the general public. Police unions are powerful, particularly in major metros. Our deeply corrupted and corruptive court system, particularly at the upper federal levels are nothing more than protective devices for the Uber-rich and major corporate interests, particularly egregious in their contra-constitutional "qualified immunity" "rulings".
On a Constitutional level, there is no provision whatsoever for courts to "rule". Determinative laws are the province of Congress and the respective state legislatures. Judges, because of the tight connexion between the American Bar Association and Temple Court, in City of London, of which the ABA is a subordinate entity; no right to CREATE laws.
Separation of powers is rapidly being destroyed by the ruling elites in our ruptured republic.
For the longest time, it seemed, those on the Far Right were harping about "concentration camps", which they claimed were being set up by Barack Obama's DHS. Nothing of the sort was ever in place. And now? We see Cop Cities, a separate housing and training scheme for police-with who knows how much backing from the same people who accused Obama of Fascism!
They probably killed Karen Silkwood, but I guess they successfully buried the evidence. I love the Gettysburg Address reference because I am hoping our nation could have “a new birth of freedom.”
Yes, the African-American mayor of Atlanta, a Democrat, supports this initiative. True story: Create the problem, then rush in with a "solution".
I agree with you 100%. Thanks for always speaking truth to power.
Shouldn’t the DOJ be involved were peoples rights are being trampled on I’m not a lawyer just seems to me that perhaps the federal government should be involved
Rattle sends a daily email to my inbox--and here's today's poem--and the poet's afterword, which is as powerful as the poem itself: https://www.rattle.com/im-lying-in-bed-now-by-ron-riekki/
Human insanity in all its forms is dangerous.
This, making it about race, is a media meme. I spreads racism.
I think you are not quite grasping it the (egoic) State /govt is authoritarian( not in the mind made future that is not real -but now).
But I agree more cops in citys is not a solution.
But at the end of the day its an illusion and we need not dwell on it.
We are in spiritual Armageddon
Thank you, Marianne. You were on point, as usual. Waking up is not done just but drinking coffee. I believe thinks are changing for the highest good of all. However, I just don't know how many more senseless killing we have to endure to make the necessary changes. I guess everything has its way to unfold. Much Love, Light, and Peace.