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In reply to the discussion: BREAKING per Huffington......Justice Department To Review Zimmerman Case [View all]Lint Head
(15,064 posts)corporately owned system is, "Well, we reviewed it and everything is just fine. Nothing to see here." Recent history has proven that reviews and committees result in reports and condemnation. Kinda like 'sticks and stone'. Words. Action is needed and needed now. The system must change starting with ending corporations defined as persons. That would go a long way in defining corporate contributions as bribery as opposed to donations. The justice system and the political system is wholly owned by corporate theocratic fascists. Name number one is ALEC. Art Pope in North Carolina is another. The Kochs are another. Their military are the privately owned security firms that they employ and the local police departments that their followers contribute weapons and money to. I know personally of a local business man that bought the entire police department of a small town their guns. They had to pay for their own guns. He was considered charitable. So guess who they were politically beholding to if he, his wife children or relatives were involved in some kind of crime? This happened a while ago and the man is now dead. This is happening nationally on a larger scale all the time today. We give military aid to other countries so they can turn around and buy weapons from U.S. manufacturers. What does that have to do with Trayvon Martin? Everything. The entire system is infected with greed and is corrupt and needs to be totally overhauled from top to bottom.
'Placating the masses' is a big cash cow for public relations firms and the federal government spends a lot of tax payers money to buy and promote propaganda for the corporations that own them. Just ask any independent major professional video and audio company who their biggest clients are. I have done it several times and the answer is always the same.
"We the People" do not have this kind of clout. They know we don't and are beating us down one punch at a time.
I hope I am completely wrong and just some cynical naysayer. But hope is all I have.