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liberalmike27

(2,479 posts)
15. Black, or Brown Shirts
Sun May 27, 2012, 11:11 AM
May 2012

The police are now kind of serving that purpose, as these subversive groups did in Germany. Their design is to intimidate others into not protesting.

To me the threat of a huge fine is enough, and prison time, or worse, getting hit in the head with a teargas canister.

I like that line in Gangs of New York "When the poor riot, you can always hire the other half to repress them," or something like that.

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Police Forces Now The Tool Of The 1% [View all] TheMastersNemesis May 2012 OP
du rec. nt xchrom May 2012 #1
Law Enforcement Has Always Been In Place To Protect And Serve The Wealthy cantbeserious May 2012 #2
Minus Big Brother capabilities. orpupilofnature57 May 2012 #4
Black, or Brown Shirts liberalmike27 May 2012 #15
NWO in full bloom orpupilofnature57 May 2012 #3
Yep what happened in Germany won't happen here newfie11 May 2012 #5
9/1 changed everything. I was born and raised in NYC, and secondwind May 2012 #6
Nice oxymoron. rrHeretic May 2012 #14
There are about 90 sulphurdunn May 2012 #7
K&R 99Forever May 2012 #8
Er eh the police have always been in the hands of the 1%... jimlup May 2012 #9
Now? TBF May 2012 #10
Or during the 1968 democratic convention in Chicago. zeemike May 2012 #12
Facetook Jerry Frey May 2012 #11
Yup. silverweb May 2012 #13
! Bozita May 2012 #17
That sure says it all! silverweb May 2012 #25
The mega rich have been inspiring cartoonists for ages JohnnyRingo May 2012 #22
That they have. silverweb May 2012 #27
How the one per-centers see the police... KansDem May 2012 #16
It's not just the police... kentuck May 2012 #18
Though that's an interesting view... JohnnyRingo May 2012 #19
If the 1% wants a war they got one. Initech May 2012 #20
We are very far from the conditions that existed in Germany before Hitler took power. Weimar coalition_unwilling May 2012 #21
More like Caligula and his relatives .n/t orpupilofnature57 May 2012 #23
Well, Caligula left in January of 2009 (I think). But I take coalition_unwilling May 2012 #24
What is it with this silly theme? treestar May 2012 #26
"Now"? HooptieWagon May 2012 #28
+ A whole bunch... Fumesucker May 2012 #29
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