Comments on: The Deeply Broken American Police System

By: T-Bear

T-Bear — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:52:07 +0000

Powerfully written, well observed, flawlessly mirrored.

Please consider the conflation of self-serving political ideology with and supplanting law as the major flaw driving the behavior, about the only issue I could add to your opus.

All the best…….

By: Mason

Mason — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:29:06 +0000

People who orgasm to the beat of jack boots stomping on their inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are sleeping better tonight knowing that their heroic local police departments have partnered-up with the FBI and the NSA to spy on all of the liberals, hippies, no-accounts, people of color, people who speak other languages, non-Christians, and other riff-raff that have asked too many questions, infiltrated their neighborhoods, and lowered their property values.

Identify the filthy, segregate the filthy, and exterminate the filthy, in Jesus name they prey.

By: Larue

Larue — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:08:28 +0000

Heck of a read, Albatross, thanks . . .

I really liked the id of the ’progressive redneck’ label he introduces.

Good stuff . .

Yer handle caught my eye . . . and all I could think of was Peter Green N Danny Kirwin . . *G*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSZHT2XvoLM

By: Cacambo

Cacambo — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:12:09 +0000

No major politician can be bothered to call it out as inappropriate. It’s just the new normal.

Oh but surely Obama will, he’s for CHANGE!

It is highly comforting to believe that Obama will make everything all right again.

I’m awaiting the upcoming statement from the campaign condemning such police excesses as seen in Minnesota … any day now!

By: Larue

Larue — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:05:36 +0000

They DON’T work for us.

They work for the interests of the 1%.

They are truly, a Praetorian Guard.

They don’t work for us.

And we’d best get ready to ACCEPT that fact.

I’m NOT sure, there’s much we can do, either.

Not unless OUR LEADERSHIP steps up and dismantles the system.

And like Obama’s FISA stand, history shows that leaders don’t usually dismantle things that consolidate power and control into the hands of the 1%. I don’t think we can expect BoyKing’s Executive Signings, or Darth’s Unitary Presidency to be unmolded, either, not even by Obama.

Best we can hope for is it’s all smoothed over and fewer innocents are hurt while the new boss same as the old boss does his thang.

But it’s not really HIS thang, it’s not Obama’s. No more than it was BoyKings.

It’s the 1%’s thang. Always has been.

Onliest way to move THEM off our dime, as history shows, is thru absolute natural calamity, or outright violent rebellion.

I’d bet money on natural calamity before I’d wage on rebellion.

This ain’t the America’s of our forefathers . . . and I don’t see the masses as revolutionaries . . . . sheeple, yes.

Sigh.

Great post Ian, you continue to dazzle this Larue.

I was JUST yesterday morning, waking up in the Sierra Nevada, at 4,600 ft., post a GREAT festival of 4 days:

www.strawberry.com

Tween the camp cooking (near gourmet at times) and the all night camp jams and the stage music, it was heaven.

Alas, the RNC and their reality has crashed my post fest glow.

Had to happen sooner or later . . . guess it’s time to cut off my wristband. *G*

By: Marion in Savannah

Marion in Savannah — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:04:40 +0000

With all due respect, what’s happening now is what you see if you pick up the rock and get to see all the little crawling things. They’ll be on their best behavior later.

By: Ian Welsh

Ian Welsh — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:03:03 +0000

Jane will probably be liveblogging Palin’s speech, around 7:30 PDT.

By: Marion in Savannah

Marion in Savannah — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:42:31 +0000

Oh, here you are… Still no “convention thread,” so I’m still downstairs, talking to myself.

By: demi

demi — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:31:59 +0000

Not a faux fur. Not even a feather boa.
I think my hippiness is showing.
Nude, drunk blogging evening?

By: selise

selise — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:26:54 +0000

the lesson is that even decent human beings can do horrible things. and that the biggest factor in protecting ourselves from failing is a recognition of our own capability for violence. thinking it’s a problem for others but not us, is a recipe for disaster.