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In reply to the discussion: Theoretically, when a car is parked on someone's property (a hospital in this case) [View all]avebury
(11,200 posts)Do you propose that we just roll over and become nothing more then serfs to the 1%ers and MIC? The game is so rigged against the masses that, if people are not willing to stand up to them, you might has well throw in the towel now because you have already lost.
The SC voted in favor of Citizens United.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._Federal_Election_Commission
People like the Koch Brothers are buying this country, one politician at a time.
Congress is totally dysfunctional and could care less about the masses.
Michigan Court Rules That State Has No Obligation To Provide Children With Education http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/11/20/michigan-court-rules-that-state-has-no-obligation-to-provide-children-with-education/
Democrats continue to cave to the Republicans under the guise that someone has to be the adult in the room)
Republicans are conducting a war to keep people from voting
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/10/28/an-estimated-5-9-million-voting-age-americans-wont-be-able-to-vote-next-tuesday/
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/texas-sees-surge-disenfranchised-voters
https://www.aclu.org/blog/tag/voter-id
Texas continues to fight for textbooks that result in poorly educated kids in a dumbed down educational system
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/18/texas-history-textbooks_n_6178756.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/education/13texas.html?_r=0
There is a perpetual war on women's reproductive rights.
http://www.politicususa.com/proof-war-women-2
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/05/22/3440497/louisiana-war-women/
http://now.org/resource/war-on-womens-reproductive-rights-escalates-in-the-states-in-2013/
We live in a country with the criminal justice system has become a for profit business which demands more and more incarcerations to feed the private prison system
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289
https://www.aclu.org/prisoners-rights/private-prisons
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/23/6_shocking_revelations_about_how_private_prisons_make_money_partner/
Militarization of the Police
https://www.aclu.org/blog/tag/militarization-police
https://www.aclu.org/war-comes-home-excessive-militarization-american-policing
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/11-shocking-facts-about-americas-militarized-police-forces
The passage of the Patriot Act and NSA Wire Taps which can be turned against the people. What were once viewed as peaceful protesters now potentially being labeled as terrorists.