Communism is not the end product of socialism. However it was envisioned, communism is simply right wing dictatorship.
Labor is weak in this work at will, outsource at will, stagnant wage economy. You lose your job, you lose your healthcare. Who is going to stick their head up and unionize? No one has to threaten violence but I doubt many people feel particularly secure in their positions.
The police have themselves become militarized and are increasingly seeing themselves as them against us. It is a dangerous way to go.
Just one example:
July 17, 2006
Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America
by Radley Balko
Executive Summary
Americans have long maintained that a man’s home is his castle and that he has the right to defend it from unlawful intruders. Unfortunately, that right may be disappearing. Over the last 25 years, America has seen a disturbing militarization of its civilian law enforcement, along with a dramatic and unsettling rise in the use of paramilitary police units (most commonly called Special Weapons and Tactics, or SWAT) for routine police work. The most common use of SWAT teams today is to serve narcotics warrants, usually with forced, unannounced entry into the home.
These increasingly frequent raids, 40,000 per year by one estimate, are needlessly subjecting nonviolent drug offenders, bystanders, and wrongly targeted civilians to the terror of having their homes invaded while they’re sleeping, usually by teams of heavily armed paramilitary units dressed not as police officers but as soldiers. These raids bring unnecessary violence and provocation to nonviolent drug offenders, many of whom were guilty of only misdemeanors. The raids terrorize innocents when police mistakenly target the wrong residence. And they have resulted in dozens of needless deaths and injuries, not only of drug offenders, but also of police officers, children, bystanders, and innocent suspects.
This paper presents a history and overview of the issue of paramilitary drug raids, provides an extensive catalogue of abuses and mistaken raids, and offers recommendations for reform.
cato.org
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Fraud is rampant in the US. Have you been paying attention to Iraq, Medicare Part D, the bridge to nowhere, health insurance, the FDA, the FAA?
How did the requirement that the government have competitive bidding turn into cronies-are-us non-compete, cost-plus disaster that is Iraq? How do we get the FDA and FAA working on behalf of the corporations they are supposed to be regulating?
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I still have that fancy orange bridge for sale if you really think that election fraud isn't rampant in the US. I guess you don't travel much.
You should get out more and see the world. Some Americans are much too provincial. Ignorance has its charms but, in general, ignorance is a bad thing. |
