"The biggest threat to America today is its own federal government."

They are busy intimidating other journalists and whistleblowers.

K&R for democratic representatives rather than corporate sellouts.

Just be careful not to implicate any corporate politicians.

As long as you treat it as a local matter or merely a problem of racism and don't try to hold corporate politicians - particularly corporate Democrats - accountable for their very significant role in police militarization and policies that create oppressive communities like Ferguson, you will be okay.

Once you cross that line and start making those connections, you will lose the support of the Third Way message control brigade here.

But addressing police militarization and the systemic physical and financial oppression of poor and minority communities *requires* confronting the corporate politicians whose policies are growing this cancer:

Stopping police militarization: Once again, the solution requires confronting corporate politicians.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=edit&forum=1002&thread=5416709

Militarization of our police departments is a *bipartisan* effort of corporatists in both parties, right along with mass surveillance, the assaults on journalism, and the persecution of whistleblowers. The programs and legislation that are turning our police departments into paramilitary forces come through Homeland Security and the Pentagon, and are being used to suppress and intimidate dissent, exploit communities, and fill lucrative private prisons with slave labor as the nation is corporatized and Americans are made into a nation of low-paid wage slaves.

Both parties are complicit in this outrage. See the links below. Real change requires pushback against corporate politicians who are enabling this militarization, and that includes both corporate Democrats and Republicans.

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Obedience is conditioned into us early now,

Quite a few (seven, I think) of these links don't work anymore. For one of them, I was able to find an alternate link. I put them here anyway so you can see the titles of the missing OP's. I can't remember ever finding so many broken links on DU for a single topic.


This isn't about safety, it's about obedience
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9608293

Excessive Loyalty and Obedience to Malevolent Authority
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9588288
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5751677
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Time%20for%20change/593

The stench of fascism
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7765352

Is obedience the only way to avoid police brutality?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025544025

Either you are a rebel or a slave---Choose---But choose fast .
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2030062

OBEY. - I'm a cop. If you don't want to get hurt, don't
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025411360

Submissiveness required by zero tolerance, no excuses (Corporate Education)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11249559 http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025714928

Seven years of silence, chanting, and obedience: Argosy Collegiate Charter School
http://edushyster.com/?p=1425

Why Are Americans So Easy to Manipulate and Control ...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101644596

With little fanfare, the TSA has expanded to sporting events, music ...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023416581

Noam Chomsky: How the Young Are Indoctrinated to Obey
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101623207

Submissiveness required by zero tolerance, no excuses.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11249559

Students Terrorized as Police Officers Draw Guns During Unannounced ‘Active Shooter Drill’ At Elementary School
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025826009

'I don't want to go to Disney World anymore': Parents' fury as TSA agents detain their crying, wheelchair-bound daughter
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022408410

Police set up roadblocks to 'voluntarily' collect DNA, blood
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023016470

The President decides. TSA groping will continue ...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9598152

Civil liberties disappear in the 2012 Democratic platform.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021267747

TSA detains woman for "attitude"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021317581

Pennsylvania street checkpoint asks drivers for mouth swabs
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024195885

The National Security State: Cultivating a Culture of Fear and Obedience
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017222034

What middle class?

The middle class was destroyed by the bipartisan corporate coup.

The corporate media keeps pretending we still have a middle class, but all that wealth was stolen.

"Hillary Clinton is, once again, the inevitable Democratic nominee."

What a marvelous first sentence.

The entire absurdity of the corporate con game/charade, summed up in one perfectly revealing clause.

"Once again..." after losing last time.

Terrorists and child sex rings, my ass.

This is a very important thread. This is the mockery that has been made of our democratic process

by the corporatists who have infiltrated our government and our elections.

In a nation that pretends to have a government Of, By, and For the People, we have been trained to accept vapid patriotic drivel and contempt from politicians rather than sincere engagement on the SPECIFIC issues that matter to our lives.

How telling, and how sick is it, that the *Official 2014 Democratic Party Survey* of voters lacked questions about the MOST important issues we face:

Post by rhett o rick, June 2014

The Official 2014 Democratic Party Survey
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025083415

I just received mine in the mail. What really stood out was the lack of questions related to the following:

Wall Street corruption

Fast Tracking of the Trans Pacific Partnership.

The XL Pipeline.

The environmental damage of wide spread fracking.

Investigations of the overreaches of the NSA/CIA organization.

Repealing the Patriot Act.

Investing in infrastructure and not military buildups.

Gun violence

Nothing matters now but the policies and the representation. Not party, not team color. Nothing matters but wresting our government back from corporations and propagandists and putting it in the hands of sincere representatives of the people again.

Any candidate who plays this vapid corporate advertising game deserves to be vehemently rejected and shunned, along with his or her cynical advertising brigade. We need representatives, not corporate pitchmen.

Warren double digits over Hillary. Sanders came in second.

Third Way inevitable Hillary places THIRD right behind Sanders.

This THIRD place finish despite having been in the public eye for years and years as both First Lady *and* Secretary of State...while he is routinely ignored or dismissed/discounted by the MSM.

And this is just the *beginning* of public familiarity with the policies of Warren and Sanders.

Go away, Third Way Hillary.