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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTorture and terror as applied via CIA versus torture and terror as applied via the police.
Forgive me DU, but something seems a tad bit hypocritical.
If the DU collective was as lockstep in their disdain about the excessive use of police force on black males in American culture as they are about the use of torture and the violation of the Geneva Conventions as they relate to Americans post-9/11, maybe Americans wouldn't be viewed as being so hypocritical. Perhaps, maybe even the UN wouldn't be issuing directives criticizing the United States about potential human rights abuses as a result of said use of police force.
I didn't post this to stir the pot. It's only being posted because while the main page on General Discussion is flooded with pearl clutching about CIA torture, it seems weird that the same level of outrage and angst hasn't been directed by DU at police abuse post-Ferguson, post-Garner, post-Tamir Rice, etc., on the same General Discussion page.
JEFF9K
(1,935 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)BRAVO!
I was trying to formulate a similar post but you just rocked it!
Thank you!
90-percent
(6,829 posts)America is being governed into a totalitarian fascist police state. I've been aware of police brutality since the demonstrations of the sixties, but I've been extremely upset by our governments torture program that came to be by the Bush White House as their policy choice. Come to think of it, I bring it up in my Congressman's town hall meeting's since 2003, before the war. Not so much for torture the whole time, but as an American citizen, I have been taught of the good principals our country was supposed to stand for. Those principals we fought WW2 over.
So it hurts to see my country conduct itself on the World Stage in a manner befitting Germany in the early thirties. It's chilling how much the PTB's have been following the Nazi playbook the last few decades.
Both are the result of powerful and wealthy people that are mean ignorant stupid and selfish. Wasn't there a time when the wealthy elites had a basic sense of human decency and fairness? We proved post WW2 there's enough of the pie to have a fair and just society. All these people do is create a state of constant fear of more being taken from us to go to them. Listening ot the newstalk of lame duck dealings to repeal more of dodd frank and banks changing laws so once again the tax payers will dole out the billions if their wall street frauds goes bust.
I'm in a constant state of emotional PTSD over the never ending flood of dirty anti-democracy dealings my government does on a daily basis.
-90% Jimmy