Fuck the Police State

[TempestTS]

Actually you'd be dead as soon as you fired one shot. Police are armed with Military grade equipment....some even have APC's and tanks these days.

Thats because the only thing they have is fear and guns - we have the numbers and that's where the true power lies -

Look at a cop at a protest - every bit of armor the put on - every big APC they drive up in and and every gun and grenade the strap on to themselves is a sign of exactly how terrified they are of the rest of the population - we could throw them all out of power in a heartbeat if we really wanted to.


"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson

[Jimmy W]

Lots of words + No Pictures = On to the LadyBoys

[TempestTS]

Lots of words + No Pictures = On to the LadyBoys

You do realize that the police state isnt a big fan of GLBT rights - you do want us around to be in those photos right ?

[Jimmy W]

Photos - Yes.....Rants - Not really....

[scroller]

I will trump this old story with news from the last 48 hours -- A 17-year-old boy in Manassas, VA trades sexting pics with his 15-year-old girlfriend, resulting in charges filed for child porn possession and production (of himself; which may, you know, lead to lifelong listing in a sex offender registry). To bolster the case, police gain a search warrant to forcibly strip him naked, inject his penis with a chemical to force an erection, and then take pictures to document what he looks like. After some public shaming, the police now say they will not carry out the warrant, but the prosecutor still plans to carry through with the child porn charges.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...r-lawyers-say/

[TempestTS]

Photos - Yes.....Rants - Not really....

then why are you reading this?

the obvious irony of that is probably wasted as well

[danthepoetman]

You know, there is a very simple solution to all of this! Very simple! Dramatically simple. STOP VOTING FOR THE REPUBLICANS!! STOP ELECTING REPUBLICANS IN THE TWO CHAMBERS!!!!!!!!
It shouldn't take a genius. This all started during the Reagan era and is part of the hard right agenda.
Secondly, stop giving in to pop vogue and declaring yourself a "Libertarian"! The American political system is a bi-partisan one. Whatever you do or think will favor either one or the other. If you really want no State, no government, you side up and tremendously help the hard right, which hope is precisely the disapearance of any type of regulation (see Tea party).
It already has reached such fantastic proportions its totally mind boggling. There is something like 900 hard, swat team police bust every day in US private homes. Police forces today are all equiped with military supplies and all have tactical units. 1 person out of 4 who's in jail on planet earth is in jail in the US. America jails more of its citizens than all the supposedly "bad guys" it looks upon as evil: more than Iran, more than China, more than Russia, etc. America indeed counts 24% of the entire world carceral population!
And this has started only 35 years ago, with the Republican great push and Karl Roves strategy. It simply keeps on going like the energizer rabbit, despite the presidency of some good, competent Democrats, because people keep voting Republican in both houses.

[TempestTS]

You know, there is a very simple solution to all of this! Very simple! Dramatically simple. STOP VOTING FOR THE REPUBLICANS!! STOP ELECTING REPUBLICANS IN THE TWO CHAMBERS!!!!!!!!
It shouldn't take a genius. This all started during the Reagan era and is part of the hard right agenda.
Secondly, stop giving in to pop vogue and declaring yourself a "Libertarian"! The American political system is a bi-partisan one. Whatever you do or think will favor either one or the other. If you really want no State, no government, you side up and tremendously help the hard right, which hope is precisely the disapearance of any type of regulation (see Tea party).
It already has reached such fantastic proportions its totally mind boggling. There is something like 900 hard, swat team police bust every day in US private homes. Police forces today are all equiped with military supplies and all have tactical units. 1 person out of 4 who's in jail on planet earth is in jail in the US. America jails more of its citizens than all the supposedly "bad guys" it looks upon as evil: more than Iran, more than China, more than Russia, etc. America indeed counts 24% of the entire world carceral population!
And this has started only 35 years ago, with the Republican great push and Karl Roves strategy. It simply keeps on going like the energizer rabbit, despite the presidency of some good, competent Democrats, because people keep voting Republican in both houses.

Im starting to realize that there is very little difference between republicans and democrats beyond the color of tie they wear. They all answer to a shadow government made up of corporations and banks. There is no real power in politics.

The national defense authorization act conducted its first joint Military and Civil Police training exercise a while back - guess where they used as their training ground - the US bank building in LA.... now what would they be training to protect? I wonder....

As Jim Morrison said - ?Five to One Baby, One in Five"

[danthepoetman]

Im starting to realize that there is very little difference between republicans and democrats beyond the color of tie they wear. They all answer to a shadow government made up of corporations and banks. There is no real power in politics.

The national defense authorization act conducted its first joint Military and Civil Police training exercise a while back - guess where they used as their training ground - the US bank building in LA.... now what would they be training to protect? I wonder....

As Jim Morrison said - ?Five to One Baby, One in Five"

I have to disagree, Tempest. And in my opinion, this type of confusion is part of the problem. Yes, political parties in a bi-partisan system will necessarely defend money interrests. But that doesn't mean both are alike and defends the same values. If you put both in the same bag, you abandon all hope, which is what intelligent people (like you) do when they give in to the "Libertarian" vogue (with the bulk of other libertarians being cuckoos, conspirationists, little green men abductees, people who think 9-11 was a ste-up, etc.). You have to be able to make the difference between people who will favor money powers for the embetterment of the national economy from people who couldn't care less about the population. Let me give you a very good example of how this all started with reaganism:

[TempestTS]

I have to disagree, Tempest. And in my opinion, this type of confusion is part of the problem. Yes, political parties in a bi-partisan system will necessarely defend money interrests. But that doesn't mean both are alike and defends the same values. If you put both in the same bag, you abandon all hope, which is what intelligent people (like you) do when they give in to the "Libertarian" vogue (with the bulk of other libertarians being cuckoos, conspirationists, little green men abductees, people who think 9-11 was a ste-up, etc.). You have to be able to make the difference between people who will favor money powers for the embetterment of the national economy from people who couldn't care less about the population. Let me give you a very good example of how this all started with reaganism:

Two words (well 3 if you get rid of the hyphen)

"For-Profit Prisons"

it was in the works long before Regan

Follow the money - thats who put it into play - the person sitting in office is just a puppet - just look at Obama and what he's let the NSA run wild with - do you know what their budget is - do you know who is making fortunes off of the state paranoia

All wars have been bankers wars - many funded both sides at the same time. They didnt care who won just who spent. Now who do you think is making a fortune off the spending of the police state - and who does the police state protect?