09.07.13
To Afflict the Afflicted (as a national trait)
What’s wrong with this picture? Rhetorical, obviously. Everything’s wrong, a visual argument for ending all DHS grants to urban and suburban police forces. This is national disgrace, in a photograph.
It’s major failure, a heavily-armed troop of police, one resembling a squad of US Marines, leading away a poverty-wage worker protesting at Wal-Mart in Seattle.
The US is a corporate fascist nation, one of a kind, preeminent in the world.
You have the freedom to shop and shut the fuck up.
If you don’t have the money to shop, you either remain silent or get arrested by heavily armed police for the temerity of imagining you were in a better place.
News sources estimated the arrests over the weekend at about 100, one week after Labor Day. That there is not more social unrest remains remarkable. Fear, a citizenry suffering from various degrees of Stockholm Syndrome.
Chuck said,
September 9, 2013 at 4:16 pm
Well, you’ve got to admit that equipping local police forces with military gear is a very neat way to get around the proscriptions of posse comitatus, no?
I can’t wait for the phosphorous grenades and tactical nukes.
George Smith said,
September 10, 2013 at 9:26 am
Yes, there’s really no need to declare marshal law anymore. The law just shows up, armed to the teeth, in bullet-proof gear, and with the armored car, if they think it necessary. There have been a large number of pieces on SWAT tactics being passed on for all manner of things. People getting their houses broken into like the Marines going into a room in Fallujah, terrible things happening. Nobody does anything.
The LAPD has a large reserve fund it now uses to pay off survivors and family of those wrongly shot by massed volley fire or in such storming incidents.