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Title: Americans are Oppressed, Too
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URL Source: http://www.infowars.com/americans-are-oppressed-too/
Published: Feb 4, 2011
Author: Paul Craig Roberts
Post Date: 2011-02-04 16:35:25 by Capitalist Eric
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Views: 18115
Comments: 27
Police in the US now rival criminals, and exceed terrorists, as the greatest threat to the American public. Rogelio Serrato is the latest case to be in the news of an innocent person murdered by the police. Serrato was the wrong man, but the Monterey County, California, SWAT team killed the 31-year old father of four and left the family home a charred ruin. The fact that SWAT teams often go to the wrong door shows the carelessness with which excessive force is used. In one instance the police even confused the town’s mayor with a drug dealer, broke into his home, shot dead the family’s pet dogs, and held the mayor and his wife and children at gun point. But most cases of police brutality never make the news. Most who suffer abuse from the police don’t bother to complain. They know that to make an enemy of the police brings a lifetime of troubles. Those who do file complaints find that police departments tend to be self-protective and that the naive and gullible public tends to side with the police. However, you can find plenty of examples of police brutality on youtube, more than you can watch in a lifetime. I have just searched google for “youtube police brutality” and the result is: “497,000 results.” There’s everything from police shooting a guy in a wheelchair to body slamming a befuddled 89-year old great grandmother to tasering kids and mothers with small children. The fat goon cops love to beat up on women, kids, and old people. The 497,000 google results may contain duplicates as more than one person might have posted a video of the same event, and the incidents occurred over more than one year. However, probably only a small percentage of incidents are captured on video by onlookers, and many incidents of police brutality have no witnesses. What the videos reveal is that a large percentage of police move with alacrity to assault the public. The number of incidences could be very high. One million annually would not be an exaggeration. In contrast, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, in 2009 (the most recent year for which data is compiled), there were 806,000 aggravated assaults (not including assaults by police against the public) by criminals against the public, of which 216,814 were committed by hands and feet and not by weapons. (In the U.S. if you merely push a person or grab his arm, you have committed assault. “Freedom and democracy” America uses any excuse to multiply the number of felons.) Considering the data, one might conclude that the police are a greater danger to the public than are criminals. Indeed, the trauma from police assault can be worse than from assault by criminals. The public thinks the police are there to protect them. Thus, the emotional and psychological shock from assault by police is greater than the trauma from being mugged because you stupidly wandered into the wrong part of town. Why are the police so aggressive toward the public? In part because their ranks attract bullies, sociopaths and psychopaths. Even normal cops are proud of their authority and expect deference. Even cops who are not primed to be set off can turn nasty in a heartbeat. In part because police are not accountable. The effort decades ago to have civilian police review boards was beat back by “law and order” conservatives. In part because the police have been militarized by the federal government, equipped with military weapons, and trained to view the public as the enemy. In part because the Bush/Cheney/Obama regimes have made every American a suspect. The only civil liberty that has any force in the U.S. today is the law against racial discrimination. This law requires that every American citizen be treated as if he were a Muslim terrorist. The Transportation Security Administration rigorously enforces the refusal to discriminate between terrorist and citizen at airports and is now taking its gestapo violations of privacy into every form of travel and congregation: trucking, bus and train travel, sports events, and, without doubt, shopping centers and automobile traffic. This despite the fact that there have been no terrorist incidents that could be used to justify such an expansive intrusion into privacy and freedom of movement. The TSA has not caught a single terrorist. However, it has abused and inconvenienced several hundred thousand innocent American citizens. The abuse happens, because people with authority are dying to use the authority. The absence of terrorists means that the TSA turns innocent Americans into terrorists. There have been so many absurd cases. One woman traveling with her ill and dying mother, who required special food, had contacted the TSA prior to the flight, explained the situation, and was given permission to take the special food onboard. But when she went through “security,” the food was taken away, and when she protested she was arrested and hauled off, leaving the elderly mother in a wheelchair deserted. Others have been arrested because a member of the household used a suitcase or carry bag to take guns and ammunition to the gun club or on a hunting trip and forgot to remove all the ammo, or the explosives test detected gunpowder residuals. Boy Scouts forgot to remove pocket knives from backpacks that they took on camping trips. Lactating mothers forced to give up breast milk. And so on. These are the “great dangers” that the TSA protect the american sheeple from, and the sheeple submit, even servilely thanking their oppressors for protecting them. Submission is what the government and the police want. Anyone who argues with TSA or the police will be abused. An American who stands up for his rights is likely to be beaten to a pulp. TSA has announced that such Americans are “suspects” and will be held in indefinite detention. And “our” government assures us that we have “freedom and democracy.” We have a police state, and everyone who forgets it is in deep trouble. The Amerikan police state is closely allied with police states all over the world–Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Israel in the Middle East and former constituent parts of the Soviet Empire in Central Asia. The U.S. government never lifts a finger in behalf of democracy anywhere. In fact, the U.S. government quickly moves to overthrow democracy wherever it rears its head, as the U.S. recently did in Honduras. Before Honduras it was Palestine where the U.S. overturned the election that brought Hamas to power. Now Washington is targeting Lebanon where Hisbollah has gained. Everywhere on earth the U.S.government prefers an autocracy that it can purchase to free elections that bring to power candidates unwilling to serve as American puppets. The U.S. government is the most determined foe of democracy in the world. Yet, Washington lectures China, which has more civil liberties than Bush/Cheney/Obama permit Americans.
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#1. To: Capitalist Eric (#0)
If you don't like it, leave. Take all your kook friends with you. It'll be a better place for your absence.
He is welcome here. A good poster is he.
I meant leave the US. He could still post here as long as he keeps the quality of his posts as high as they are now. And as long as his new country keeps the interweb on.
This is MY country. This is my HOME, and always has been. I will stay, and fight for my home. I did it before, and I'm MORE than willing to do it again. I gave my promise, many years ago, to defend my country against ALL enemies, foreign AND domestic. The fact is, the government is out of control. The government now IS the domestic enemy. You, abu, stand with the enemy against my country, and my people. You've made your choice, and I can respect your choice, even if I don't agree with it. Just remember, I have made MY choice. I stand AGAINST the police state.
"There will be no more money when the U.S. dollar has no value, until that time we can keep printing more." -- go65, LF's answer to Ben Bernanke --
Needs more fonts.
I don't change fonts, dummy. It'll really make my day, when I hear that you die the type of death you so RICHLY deserve... And I'll celebrate the improvement in the gene pool. You're QUITE the piece of shit.
"There will be no more money when the U.S. dollar has no value, until that time we can keep printing more." -- go65, LF's answer to Ben Bernanke --
The oppression you feel is all in your head. There's no use squealing for more freedom you won't enjoy the freedom you've got. GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY!!!
Government power you complain about is absolutely essential to the successful implementation of the economic policies you advocate.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson
Do you believe that we live in a free country?
Do you believe the government has to much power? Do you believe they are following the constitution? Is Obama following the constitution?
The democrat party is the party of proud baby killers. They are so fucked in the head that they brag about it. It is the infanticide party. Sick mother fuckers that need raid sprayed all over them.
Good for you, you know how to use profanity! As governor of California Reagan signed into law a bill liberalizing abortion.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson
A belief is what you have when you don't know.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson
You have it completely backward. So instead of just simply laughing at you, I'm going to change tactics for just a minute, and put out information that you can learn something from... Whether you choose to listen and learn, is your choice. I really don't care, to be perfectly honest. You learn to adapt, and you'll have a good chance of a decent future. If you refuse to learn, and simply keep swallowing the shit that the government (and their MSM shills) tell you, then... well, chances are that life will not be a very happy experience for you. "All I can do is show you the door- you're the one who has to walk through." The economy of this country has effectively been managed ever since 1913, when the Federal Reserve became the central bank of the USA. When the dollar collapses, the Federal Reserve will be disbanded, is my guess- the anger of the people being financially crushed will make this all but certain. Of course, by the time that occurs, it'll most likely be too late- as the Fed has essentially STOLEN all the wealth of this country, already. The country survived quite well before the Fed came along. The government had no ability to "deficit-spend" (aka living beyond your means) at any real magnitude, for any length of time. The government has grown into an overarching monster, that has tentacles in EVERY aspect of life. It went from a relatively minor cost to the overall GDP, to being a huge parasite, sucking the lifeblood out of this country. Of course, the propaganda given to the sheeple is that "we're absolutely essential, because we implement economic policies that benefit us all." At one time, most of the people believed such bullshit. Now, only the stupid and ignorant still believe the propaganda. The truth is, the Fed implements economic policies that benefit themselves. They don't do ANYTHING that I would advocate- because I want the Federal Reserve to DIE. You need to understand something: The Fed- given the policies they have been pursuing- will bring us down to the level of Egypt (if we're lucky), or far WORSE. The middle-east revolutions are happening not due to politics, but because inflation is hitting them at the grocery stores like it's hitting us HERE... But since those countries suffer from poverty, a 25% increase in food prices means they don't eat. The current trajectory we're on, will put US in the same boat, sooner or later. Combining that inflation with cuts in (or eliminations of) Social Security, welfare, etc., will yield entirely predictable, and tragic results. There are few ways to protect yourself from the government devaluing your money, which effectively robs you of your savings... You can buy precious metals like gold or silver. You can buy food and water-purification gear. Have extra fuel stored away... When inflation of the dollar really starts to hit (I'm betting within the next year), the prices of food will increase at an even faster rate... and with the already-massive deficit in those same benefits account, the fixed dollar amounts will not be able to keep up with inflation- retirees, the handicapped, the jobless... ALL will suffer greatly, in the coming years. Oh, they may still get their checks... But the money won't be worth enough to buy anything. You seem to think that I enjoy this stuff... The reality is that I hate it. What's coming scares the SHIT out of me, as well as my wife (who has the same education I do, and has come to the same conclusions as I, through independant analysis). I'd much prefer to work on my doctorate, and worry about my career path, after I finish... It'd be much easier to think about such simple things, than delve into macroeconomic theory, historical data and trend analysis. I hate politics, I hate the lies and the manipulations, the whores in D.C., etc. But the reality is that those whores in D.C. are now making a concerted effort to take over and control the lives of EVERY person in this country. You think that's crazy? You need look no further than the PATRIOT-USA act. I complain about the "government power" and the economic policies being implemented, because all the power is being brought to bear..... against US. Again, you CAN take steps to protect yourself... Understand, the short-term indications all say we're heading down the road of Argentina... For a good idea of what that means, I'd suggest looking at the following websites: First-hand experiences with a brief history of Argentina. A very long read, but well worth it, is FerFal's Survival Guide to the Post Eco-Collapse of Argentina. If you're REALLY interested in the discussion, you'll at least give the links I've provided an honest look. If you're beyond hope, and simply another sheep waiting to be sheared by the nanny-state, then you'll ignore what I've told you, or even give some facile response... I've written all of the above, basically as a test to see if you are serious about what you say, or if you're completely driven by propaganda. What'll it be?
"There will be no more money when the U.S. dollar has no value, until that time we can keep printing more." -- go65, LF's answer to Ben Bernanke --
So are you admitting you don't know or is it you are afraid to answser because of the ridicule you would receive.
I'm saying you don't know or you wouldn't frame the question as you did.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson
The question was perfectly clear and simple. I think you are afraid of the ridicule you will receive.
It wasn't one question, it was three. I think you are afraid of the ridicule you will receive. Oh good grief! If I was afraid of ridicule, I'd have been gone a long time ago.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson
Ok there were 3 simple questions. Lucy can you answer them? Come on you're a good sport you can do it.
I'm just waiting to see if she'll actually check out the links I provided, or if she prefers to remain happily... "unaware"... of what's coming. Time will tell.
Only an opium-smoking FOOL would think that when you've maxed out your credit cards, and can no longer make minimum payments, that raising the limits on the credit is a good idea. Either that, or you're a socialist ass-hat, who thinks "There will be no more money when the U.S. dollar has no value, until that time we can keep printing more." And yes, that IS from LF's answer to Ben Bernanke, go65, our disfunctional, delusional socialist of the forum.
Lucy is her daughter, numbnuts.
1. Your arrogance seems to know no bounds. 2. I'm old enough to not have much future left. The country survived quite well before the Fed came along. The government had no ability to "deficit-spend" (aka living beyond your means) at any real magnitude, for any length of time. Some people managed to get along. The 1800s had a number of recessions and depressions which the fed was established to mitigate in the future. Your mythical past does not exist. I have stuff to do in the real world now so - see you later.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson
Touchy-feely liberals often say this. There is a BIG difference between arrogance and confidence, as I keep explaining to you socialists...: the difference between arrogance and confidence, is that confidence comes from not just saying something, but actually DOING what you say you can do. Leftists like you constantly call me arrogant... until I deliver exactly what I say I'll deliver. I don't have the time or inclination to bullshit people, especially on the net. I mean, really, what would be the point? As I said on post #14: If you're REALLY interested in the discussion, you'll at least give the links I've provided an honest look. If you're beyond hope, and simply another sheep waiting to be sheared by the nanny-state, then you'll ignore what I've told you, or even give some facile response... I've written all of the above, basically as a test to see if you are serious about what you say, or if you're completely driven by propaganda. What'll it be? Clearly, you prefer the warm and fuzzy propaganda, to actually thinking for yourself. In other words, you're what Lenin referred to as a "useless idiot." Fine. Live under the fiction that the MSM provides you. Live in the fantasy- land, and suffer appropriately when the truth is fully revealed to you. By then, of course, it'll be too late, and you'll suffer greatly. And I think that's just, because real life doesn't suffer fools lightly. There's no fool like an old fool, as you so amply demonstrate. It would seem that we do agree on one thing, though: you don't have much of a future.
Only an opium-smoking FOOL would think that when you've maxed out your credit cards, and can no longer make minimum payments, that raising the limits on the credit is a good idea. Either that, or you're a socialist ass-hat, who thinks "There will be no more money when the U.S. dollar has no value, until that time we can keep printing more." And yes, that IS from LF's answer to Ben Bernanke, go65, our disfunctional, delusional socialist of the forum.
I've written all of the above, basically as a test to see if you are serious about what you say, or if you're completely driven by propaganda. What'll it be? A test huh? Ping me when you've gotten over yourself.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson
Freedom is relative. It's a free country. Free enough to get on with what's important in life.
It's a free country. Free enough to get on with what's important in life. It is less free then it used to be. And not nearly free enough.
Freedom is over-rated, happiness is where it's at.
#2. To: Abu el Banat (#1)
If you don't like it, leave. Take all your kook friends with you. It'll be a better place for your absence.
#3. To: A K A Stone (#2)
#4. To: A K A Stone, Abu el Banat (#2)
If you don't like it, leave. Take all your kook friends with you. It'll be a better place for your absence.
#5. To: Capitalist Eric (#4)
#6. To: Abu el Banat (#5)
#7. To: Capitalist Eric (#6)
#8. To: Capitalist Eric (#4)
The fact is, the government is out of control. The government now IS the domestic enemy.
#9. To: Abu el Banat (#7)
#10. To: lucysmom (#8)
#11. To: lucysmom (#8)
#12. To: A K A Stone (#11)
The democrat party is the party of proud baby killers. They are so fucked in the head that they brag about it. It is the infanticide party. Sick mother fuckers that need raid sprayed all over them.
#13. To: A K A Stone (#10)
Do you believe the government has to much power? Do you believe they are following the constitution? Is Obama following the constitution?
#14. To: lucysmom (#8)
Government power you complain about is absolutely essential to the successful implementation of the economic policies you advocate.
#15. To: lucysmom (#13)
A belief is what you have when you don't know.
#16. To: A K A Stone (#15)
So are you admitting you don't know or is it you are afraid to answser because of the ridicule you would receive.
#17. To: lucysmom (#16)
I'm saying you don't know or you wouldn't frame the question as you did.
#18. To: A K A Stone (#17)
The question was perfectly clear and simple.
#19. To: lucysmom (#18)
#20. To: A K A Stone (#19)
#21. To: A K A Stone (#19)
Lucy can you answer them?
#22. To: Capitalist Eric (#14)
Whether you choose to listen and learn, is your choice. I really don't care, to be perfectly honest. You learn to adapt, and you'll have a good chance of a decent future. If you refuse to learn, and simply keep swallowing the shit that the government (and their MSM shills) tell you, then... well, chances are that life will not be a very happy experience for you. "All I can do is show you the door- you're the one who has to walk through."
#23. To: lucysmom (#22)
1. Your arrogance seems to know no bounds.
I'm old enough to not have much future left.
#24. To: Capitalist Eric (#23)
If you're REALLY interested in the discussion, you'll at least give the links I've provided an honest look. If you're beyond hope, and simply another sheep waiting to be sheared by the nanny-state, then you'll ignore what I've told you, or even give some facile response...
#25. To: A K A Stone (#9)
#26. To: Abu el Banat (#25)
Freedom is relative.
#27. To: A K A Stone (#26)
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