Hmm a militarized country using excessive force in other countries has a militarized police force... (Reply #18)

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Wed Aug 20, 2014, 09:51 AM

L0oniX (31,493 posts)

18. Hmm a militarized country using excessive force in other countries has a militarized police force...

what could eventually go wrong? I mean if this country can go kill hundreds of thousands in Iraq because of 911, wmd's, yellow cake and eventual mushroom clouds then why wouldn't it's police do the same ...to it's own population? After all a lot of police are x military so they are all ready for this shit and have the equipment to do it. Maybe Ferguson is a warning to the population that the pigs are ready to kill us should we revolt against the corporations and rich people that control our country and our lives.

WARNING: We must stop those dangerous hippy girls before they spread peace and destroy our (economy) military industrial based country.

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79 replies	Author	Time	Post
The Seamy Underbelly Of Ferguson Starts To Appear (Updated) [View all]	Scuba	Aug 2014	OP
k&r for the truth, however depressing it may be. n/t	Laelth	Aug 2014	#1
K&R - Connecting the dots...	myrna minx	Aug 2014	#2
Notice Ferguson is very near St Louis International Airport	hexola	Aug 2014	#3
The property values are most impacted by the School Districts	Gore1FL	Aug 2014	#33
think how many people probably lost their TWA jobs when it went extinct	JCMach1	Aug 2014	#64
The basic problem of Ferguson:	Spider Jerusalem	Aug 2014	#4
Not just as animals… as cash cows.	KittyWampus	Aug 2014	#6
It is a Money Thing!!!	littlemissmartypants	Aug 2014	#38
Minor correction: "4,000 animals" (not 400), which makes the comment all the more telling, imo.	VanGoghRocks	Aug 2014	#39
Apartheid.	moondust	Aug 2014	#45
^^This^^	jen63	Aug 2014	#75
Has Rachel Maddow touched on this yet? The huge number of violations in proportion to population?	KittyWampus	Aug 2014	#5
I believe Rachel did address that issue a while back.	Enthusiast	Aug 2014	#21
That's very revealing	Bragi	Aug 2014	#7
The underlying problem may be that cities, whether Detroit or Ferguson or some small town in the	JDPriestly	Aug 2014	#25
In LA during the time of the crash, they hired 1000 new parking patrol	BrotherIvan	Aug 2014	#46
I have had some tea-party friends beating on me that all Democrats are racist	LiberalArkie	Aug 2014	#47
You can't fix loony	BrotherIvan	Aug 2014	#48
All those Dixiecrat racists were Democrats. Some evolved, and the rest became Republicans.	Zen Democrat	Aug 2014	#56
The Third Way. Note that I am an Elizabeth Warren supporter.	JDPriestly	Aug 2014	#54
When I drove a "poorer-looking" car, the LAPD was much freer about stopping me for chickenshit	villager	Aug 2014	#55
Nixon is a Dem	xmas74	Aug 2014	#66
Thank you for educating me	BrotherIvan	Aug 2014	#69
He is a more conservative Dem	xmas74	Aug 2014	#71
^ n/t	BlancheSplanchnik	Aug 2014	#26
You should see St. Ann	Gore1FL	Aug 2014	#34
Same thing was going on in Bell, CA	SwankyXomb	Aug 2014	#35
Would love to see a map of their voting district and	PuraVidaDreamin	Aug 2014	#8
This is a thousand towns across America	alcibiades_mystery	Aug 2014	#9
Unfortunately, it isn't just the black experience.	JDPriestly	Aug 2014	#28
Follow the money. You'll seldom get lost. n/t	sarge43	Aug 2014	#10
It also means long-term unemployment and poverty	Sanity Claws	Aug 2014	#11
+1	BrotherIvan	Aug 2014	#49
K&R And once again, the problem leads back to corporate corruption.	woo me with science	Aug 2014	#12
+1 ...see post 18 for my opinion.	L0oniX	Aug 2014	#19
There's something rotten in Ferguson...	ReRe	Aug 2014	#13
The Jennings PD was disbanded in 2010 for corruption	starroute	Aug 2014	#40
That's what I was referring to...	ReRe	Aug 2014	#42
Awesome truths there, starroute! K&R n/t	bobthedrummer	Aug 2014	#70
Kick and rec. Taxation without representation.	riqster	Aug 2014	#14
the prison industrial complex has a pervasive corrupting effect too	phantom power	Aug 2014	#15
A new form of voter suppression. Can anything get worse?	jwirr	Aug 2014	#16
The entire machine needs to be shut down...	Spitfire of ATJ	Aug 2014	#17
Hmm a militarized country using excessive force in other countries has a militarized police force...	L0oniX	Aug 2014	#18
I posted this thread a few nights ago very late and it dropped off the radar (as	VanGoghRocks	Aug 2014	#41
Coming to other cities in America.....	blackspade	Aug 2014	#20
Kicked and recommended!	Enthusiast	Aug 2014	#22
I also see signs of an attempt to make the police department financially self-sustaining.	Baitball Blogger	Aug 2014	#23
Thank you.	JDPriestly	Aug 2014	#30
Exactly so	tkmorris	Aug 2014	#24
I read they have an average 6% voter turnout	librechik	Aug 2014	#29
I believe it's 12%	KamaAina	Aug 2014	#36
12% is voter turnout for entire city.	HooptieWagon	Aug 2014	#76
So that's, what, a thousand votes?	KamaAina	Aug 2014	#77
Thats probably a good guess.	HooptieWagon	Aug 2014	#78
yup--and the widespread use of this sort of thing is why	librechik	Aug 2014	#27
tax cuts are awesome.	pansypoo53219	Aug 2014	#31
k and r. all of this	bbgrunt	Aug 2014	#32
The soft white underbelly.	KamaAina	Aug 2014	#37
Here in Richmond, VA., we have Henrico County officers who target Richmond citizens.	WCLinolVir	Aug 2014	#43
Part of the seamy underbelly...	TeeYiYi	Aug 2014	#44
The cases and warrants do seem excessive but the $2,635,400 isn't even	A Simple Game	Aug 2014	#50
How many of those cops are part-time?	Lee-Lee	Aug 2014	#52
You may be right, I hadn't thought of part timers, but still doesn't seem like much. n/t	A Simple Game	Aug 2014	#58
As I said in another thread this is easily fixed if the MO legislature and Governer will act	Lee-Lee	Aug 2014	#51
The GOP is in the majority in the the legislature	xmas74	Aug 2014	#72
So do a ballot initiative	Lee-Lee	Aug 2014	#74
In other places a name like "Justice for Education Act"	xmas74	Aug 2014	#79
I wonder whether the ACLU would sue to get those who were set up to be	tblue37	Aug 2014	#53
Huge K&R	woo me with science	Aug 2014	#57
k&r. Thanks for posting. nm	rhett o rick	Aug 2014	#59
Felons should not lose the right to vote	indivisibleman	Aug 2014	#60
+1	dreamnightwind	Aug 2014	#67
agreed.	indivisibleman	Aug 2014	#73
K&R	Squinch	Aug 2014	#61
Wow. DU is depressing today. The truth hurts. K&R.	Dark n Stormy Knight	Aug 2014	#62
I think this is a real under-reported aspect of poverty and policing in this country	JCMach1	Aug 2014	#63
No wonder	El Shaman	Aug 2014	#65
kick	woo me with science	Aug 2014	#68

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