05-10-2013, 11:25 AM
David Guyatt Wrote:Quote:stopped and frisked for "walking while black or hispanic"
Jeeezuz.
The USA is moving back to the past.
Quite a sizable number of those stopped and frisked for walking while not white were beaten, mistreated, arrested, and some tazered, shot or killed - while not even resisting. Yes, our new motto: 'Forward Into The Past!'......I can think of NO good development in the USA in decades - and all of these have been taken back. The current halt of the government is to do several things on the part of the most Neanderthal and Reich-wing - but primary is to stop Obamacare [a semi-privatized and only partly effective measure to try to help those who don't have any medical insurance], Obama, abortions and access to birth control, etc. States could opt out of certain features that primarily effect the poor and non-whites...and half of the states [most of the old South and a few in the West] did - containing half of the population who will never benefit the little bit Obamacare can offer, theoretically and will suffer more. Absolutely the least advanced 'developed' nation on earth and moving backwards, not forwards...becoming authoritarian if not totalitarian and all rights and freedoms, financial advantages of a 'developed' nation being lost to all but the top few.....the rest are now serfs in cities and suburbs...soon many to be serfs in prison camps, IMO.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass