Saturday, December 30, 2017
Friday, December 29, 2017
Swatting and Cops Gone Wild
This story is almost unbelievable. I say almost because nothing is really unbelievable anymore.
"On Thursday, Deputy Wichita Police Chief Troy Livingston said a substation received a call that there was a hostage situation in a house in the 1000 block of West McCormick — and that someone had been shot in the head.
“That was the information we were working off of,” he said, explaining that officers went to the house ready for a hostage situation and they “got into position.”
“A male came to the front door,” Livingston said Thursday night. “As he came to the front door, one of our officers discharged his weapon.”
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/family-says-son-killed-by-police-in-%e2%80%98swatting%e2%80%99-was-unarmed-didn%e2%80%99t-play-video-games/ar-BBHuQlF?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=SL5EDHP
A completely innocent person opens his door and the pigs shoot him down. Now, it really can happen to anyone.
I would say maybe something good could come out of this. Like the pigs being a little more careful on who they decide to shoot. But it doesn't work that way.
"On Thursday, Deputy Wichita Police Chief Troy Livingston said a substation received a call that there was a hostage situation in a house in the 1000 block of West McCormick — and that someone had been shot in the head.
“That was the information we were working off of,” he said, explaining that officers went to the house ready for a hostage situation and they “got into position.”
“A male came to the front door,” Livingston said Thursday night. “As he came to the front door, one of our officers discharged his weapon.”
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/family-says-son-killed-by-police-in-%e2%80%98swatting%e2%80%99-was-unarmed-didn%e2%80%99t-play-video-games/ar-BBHuQlF?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=SL5EDHP
A completely innocent person opens his door and the pigs shoot him down. Now, it really can happen to anyone.
I would say maybe something good could come out of this. Like the pigs being a little more careful on who they decide to shoot. But it doesn't work that way.
Why Doesn't We Learn?
I don't get this continued attraction to the Democratic party by some on the left. Then again I do, it's like a cult, cults are hard to leave. Notice I didn't say, "the" left? I saw that in a Salon article posted here at C99 earlier where the author generalized that the left was the democratic party and vice versa.
Time to end that bullshit.
The "left" in this country is not the democratic party. That is the deception the ruling elite want people to believe so they'll continue to accept everything through this corrupt duopoly consisting of the republican and democratic parties. It's also the lie that next layer under the ruling class, who feed off this system, perpetuate to maintain their status and aspirations. The corporate media serves to manipulate the public to believe everything revolves around the democratic and republican parties and most of the so called alternative media plays right along. They're all basically the same now.
So I looked up the author of that Salon article, Sophia Mcclennon, and ya, she's a professional lefty educated at Duke and Harvard.
Professional leftists are the biggest perpetuators of the two party fraud along with the corporate media where many reside. The ones who went to college at Harvard, Duke, Princeton, U. of Chicago, George Washington, etc. Those who come from solidly middle to upper middle class, even upper class backgrounds, secured jobs working on some Senator's staff as an "intern" or work at think tanks, institutes with fellowships and whatever else they're into to make themselves feel superior. Now they write for Salon, Huffington Post, Common Dreams, the Intercept and countless other internet based news and opinions sites and shows, dispensing their own brand of ruling class mentality. Painting everything relative to the two party system which is the biggest fucking problem we have, if you think about it, relative to democracy and ya, basically freedom. Freedom at least from being ruled by rich fuckers. That's why I ditched those places long ago. They're part of the problem in how they perpetuate the status quo, prevent radical working class led solutions and steer people into the failed political system.
Just look at this political system, what's happening right now. This unbelievable tax bill and the anticipated attack on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid by the republicans who have a republican party controlled congress, senate and the presidency. This is after eight years with a democratic party president, the war criminal Obama, who had a majority congress and senate his first term and also proposed cutting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, placed austerity measures on social and domestic programs, implemented a republican designed healthcare system called Obamacare, oversaw an incredible expansion in the national debt and wealth inequality and started three more wars while increasing the fascist police state hold on the American people. Now the democratic party is pretending to be on its high horse just in time for the next election season. Their "outreach coordinator", Bernie Sanders, is leading the assault on the republican party and Obama the Nobel Peace prize winner is starting to get into the game. Some of the public will get sucked in but the corporate and alternative medias will make it sound like the entire left, and right, of the United States are involved.
What really gets me is when I read history, quotes from the past by people who fought against oligarchy, plutocracy and slavery about this two party system that somehow still exists. That's when I really wonder why the hell we're still putting up with this system. We've known about it all along.
People like Eugene Debs, an early 1900's American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. He certainly had direct and significant experience with the U.S. political system and the two party domination.
In it he traced his personal progression regarding voting from 1889 when he was 21 to the time of his essay in 1956 when he was 88 years old. He had 67 years of experience with the American political system at the time of his essay. He started with this:
Do you see a pattern here?
That was 61 years ago and now look at this system. Do you really think it can be "reformed" as the bullshit narrative goes? What on earth is different now than 1956, or 100 years ago, 150 years ago, 200 years ago?
We're in the same place we've always been.
Time to end that bullshit.
The "left" in this country is not the democratic party. That is the deception the ruling elite want people to believe so they'll continue to accept everything through this corrupt duopoly consisting of the republican and democratic parties. It's also the lie that next layer under the ruling class, who feed off this system, perpetuate to maintain their status and aspirations. The corporate media serves to manipulate the public to believe everything revolves around the democratic and republican parties and most of the so called alternative media plays right along. They're all basically the same now.
So I looked up the author of that Salon article, Sophia Mcclennon, and ya, she's a professional lefty educated at Duke and Harvard.
Professional leftists are the biggest perpetuators of the two party fraud along with the corporate media where many reside. The ones who went to college at Harvard, Duke, Princeton, U. of Chicago, George Washington, etc. Those who come from solidly middle to upper middle class, even upper class backgrounds, secured jobs working on some Senator's staff as an "intern" or work at think tanks, institutes with fellowships and whatever else they're into to make themselves feel superior. Now they write for Salon, Huffington Post, Common Dreams, the Intercept and countless other internet based news and opinions sites and shows, dispensing their own brand of ruling class mentality. Painting everything relative to the two party system which is the biggest fucking problem we have, if you think about it, relative to democracy and ya, basically freedom. Freedom at least from being ruled by rich fuckers. That's why I ditched those places long ago. They're part of the problem in how they perpetuate the status quo, prevent radical working class led solutions and steer people into the failed political system.
Just look at this political system, what's happening right now. This unbelievable tax bill and the anticipated attack on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid by the republicans who have a republican party controlled congress, senate and the presidency. This is after eight years with a democratic party president, the war criminal Obama, who had a majority congress and senate his first term and also proposed cutting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, placed austerity measures on social and domestic programs, implemented a republican designed healthcare system called Obamacare, oversaw an incredible expansion in the national debt and wealth inequality and started three more wars while increasing the fascist police state hold on the American people. Now the democratic party is pretending to be on its high horse just in time for the next election season. Their "outreach coordinator", Bernie Sanders, is leading the assault on the republican party and Obama the Nobel Peace prize winner is starting to get into the game. Some of the public will get sucked in but the corporate and alternative medias will make it sound like the entire left, and right, of the United States are involved.
What really gets me is when I read history, quotes from the past by people who fought against oligarchy, plutocracy and slavery about this two party system that somehow still exists. That's when I really wonder why the hell we're still putting up with this system. We've known about it all along.
People like Eugene Debs, an early 1900's American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. He certainly had direct and significant experience with the U.S. political system and the two party domination.
"The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles."Or how about John Adams, the second president of the United States and one of the "founding fathers" who also knew a little about this system.
"There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution."Take George Washington, the first president, also a founding father and Commander in Chief during the Revolutionary war.
-- John Adams, Letter to Jonathan Jackson (2 October 1780), "The Works of John Adams", vol 9, p.511
"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty."And then there's W.E.B. Dubois, an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, and one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. In 1956 he published the famous essay "Why I Won't Vote" (The Nation, 20 October 1956).
George Washington
In it he traced his personal progression regarding voting from 1889 when he was 21 to the time of his essay in 1956 when he was 88 years old. He had 67 years of experience with the American political system at the time of his essay. He started with this:
"Since I was twenty-one in 1889, I have in theory followed the voting plan strongly advocated by Sidney Lens in The Nation of August 4, i.e., voting for a third party even when its chances were hopeless, if the main parties were unsatisfactory; or, in absence of a third choice, voting for the lesser of two evils."After describing his evolution, he says this:
"In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no "two evils" exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say. There is no third party. On the Presidential ballot in a few states (seventeen in 1952), a "Socialist" Party will appear. Few will hear its appeal because it will have almost no opportunity to take part in the campaign and explain its platform."Later he states,
"Is the refusal to vote in this phony election a counsel of despair? No, it is dogged hope. It is hope that if twenty-five million voters refrain from voting in 1956 because of their own accord and not because of a sly wink from Khrushchev, this might make the American people ask how much longer this dumb farce can proceed without even a whimper of protest."He ends with this.
"Stop running Russia and giving Chinese advice when we cannot rule ourselves decently. Stop yelling about a democracy we do not have. Democracy is dead in the United States. Yet there is still nothing to replace real democracy. Drop the chains, then, that bind our brains. Drive the money-changers from the seats of the Cabinet and the halls of Congress. Call back some faint spirit of Jefferson and Lincoln,and when again we can hold a fair election on real issues, let's vote, and not till then. Is this impossible? Then democracy in America is impossible."http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/298.html
Do you see a pattern here?
That was 61 years ago and now look at this system. Do you really think it can be "reformed" as the bullshit narrative goes? What on earth is different now than 1956, or 100 years ago, 150 years ago, 200 years ago?
We're in the same place we've always been.
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