Man Dies During Traffic Stop From Asthma Attack as Cop Refuses to Let them Drive to Hospital

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40. Zero tolerance in the schools starting in the 80's = the death of logic, any mercy

War on drugs where cocaine and crack have vastly different penalties and the CIA or like agencies flooding the ghetto with crack. All black people are gang members and all white people are Christians aren't they?

Churches teaching greed is good and a mind bending rewrite of "pro-life", greed is good, charity is only for people who look and act just like you. (Moonies +CIA+ a whole lot of cash)

Making the "National Guard" the cannon fodder.

Militarization of our police kicking into high gear after 911. Mercenaries invited in on US soil in NOLA for the first time since 1776.

Insurance companies making treatment decisions, Doctors turned into Narcs first, care givers second. Withholding medicine as a tool to control. Puling State Health Departments into the DOD's CDC-NIH by controlling funds.

Turning prison into private slave powered corporations. People who steal billions rewarded, people who steal food to survive in our no safety net for adults country, imprisoned.

Systematically destroying all safeguards to environment, safety, food safety, pensions, bank accounts, stocks held by all but the 1%, markets rigged (gold, oil, etc).

Companies that ship jobs overseas are rewarded by our government through deregulation and special tax deals. Now foreign companies are using eminent domain to take land for the oil pipeline that does not benefit Americans in any way. Oil goes somewhere else, profits go somewhere else, no environmental oversight, food rotting on sidelines to market to make way for oil trains.

One party already Fascist in every sense and the other taken over by money. Manufactured boogiemen and handlers to keep our pols in line, Think Tanks that don't and the killing, blackmail of a few key pols. I think Welstone and Dayton may be the part of the tiny few who for one shining moment was truthful about what was happening but they were steamrolled under, one dead, one cowed.

Regulations relaxed to allow Media to be bought up by the 1%, and/or controlled by the government. Government propaganda, outlawed in the 1940's is again legal but it has been used for decades.

Psychological warfare on schools and teachers since the 1980's, defunding them, teaching tests that prepare our kids for nothing(and nothing is what they are destined for today), letting religion replace science, math and logic.

Those who resist are treasonous, morally bad, dirty, crazy, shunned.

In my 9th grade class the DOD sent out a research unit to be used by schools for research. People were divided into countries with different amounts of money, resources, land and power. We were supposed make sure our country was OK, morality had no power. I was in the second most powerful country and since we never discussed the outcome of the "game" it haunted me ever since. I sweetly took charge and in an hour had conquered the world but it was a unequal society because the early ones would gladly give up their rights if told the later ones into the winning group, would not to have it as good. Nobody in my class thought anything about the consequences of what we were actually doing. I did and I was sickened that nobody looked any deeper, even in the let it all hang out late 60's. Now I am watching that unfold and again, everyone is just playing the game and pretending to be happy, morally correct and smug while they lose everything.

We are almost at no education except private, no pensions even private, no safety net, unequal access to the law, to heath care, to monetary success. Maybe we deserve to go extinct but until now I had hope in mankind's better self triumphing at least through experience but instead of blaming the powers that made their lives hell, they take the offered scape goat to brutalize and destroy and accept even more shit from their betters.

Someone won a Peace Prize saying that it is always better for people to work together rather than work against each other but then the Republicans have probably systematically wiped out that research along with a hundred or more years of other research by taking over the libraries, historical societies and archives including whatever University produced that research. (I have a wingnut cousin who worked on the University of Minnesota libraries.)