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Title: Going Postal: Is the Arizona Shooting A New Kind of American Murder? ("Going Postal" as modern-day slave rebellions by the hopeless)
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Published: Jan 17, 2011
Author: Mark Ames
Post Date: 2011-01-20 16:18:51 by Godwinson
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Views: 13940
Comments: 24
Going Postal / January 10, 2011 Is the Arizona Shooting A New Kind of American Murder? By Mark Ames Saturday’s shooting in Tucson, Arizona, has been variously described as an “assassination” and a “shooting rampage”—but which one is it? This may seem like a semantic quibble, but what occurred in that Safeway supermarket appears to be an entirely new type of American murder: a hybrid of political assassination, of the sort that plagued America in the 1960s and 70s, and a “going postal” rampage massacre, of the kind that first appeared in the mid- to late-1980s, with the rise of Reaganomics inequalities and the deterioration of workplace culture. Continue reading this story at Vanity Fair. Book Description: An eye-opening look at the phenomenon of school and workplace shootings in America, Going Postal explores the rage-murder phenomenon that has plagued — and baffled — America for the last three decades, and offers some provocative answers to the oft-asked question, "Why?" By juxtaposing the historical place of rage in America with the social climate that has existed since the 1980s — when Reaganomics began to widen the gap between executive and average- worker earnings — the author crafts a convincing argument that these schoolyard and office massacres can be seen as modern-day slave rebellions. He presents many fascinating and unexpected cases in detail. Like slave rebellions, these massacres are doomed, gory, sometimes even inadvertently comic, and grossly misunderstood. Taking up where Bowling for Columbine left off, this book seeks to set these murders in their proper context and thereby reveal their meaning.
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#3. To: Godwinson (#0)
I've always said self government will not work. 80 to 90 percent of people are too stupid to govern themselves. Only We the Enlightened few have the qualifications to operate the levers of government. The problem with the shooter in Arizona is that in America as it now stands, he had no function. In the Utopia to come, he (and others like him) will make the perfect Palace Guards.
#4. To: Karl Marx (#3)
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Reagan destroyed the public mental health system in America and we don't have socialized medical care for men like the Arizona shooter brings us to this level of existence in America.
Ya,.....but then Lavrentiy Beria 's who you party with put a bullet in your head or poison you. Good luck with the revolution.
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#11. To: Karl Marx (#3)
I've always said self government will not work. 80 to 90 percent of people are too stupid to govern themselves. Only We the Enlightened few have the qualifications to operate the levers of government.
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