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WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts) Fri Oct 23, 2015, 09:17 AM Oct 2015

TYT: Larry Lessig On How “Tyrannical” US Gov't Oppresses Black Americans. Int. w/Cenk Uygur (edit)

What does the campaign to end money’s corrosive influence over our government have to do with the #BlackLivesMatter movement? Everything, says upstart presidential candidate Larry Lessig.

In this edited portion of an hour-long interview with The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur, Lessig explains how the horrific history and ongoing mistreatment of African-Americans relates directly to the way government is funded, and how Ferguson, Missouri is a perfect example of the regressive practice of “taxation through citation.”

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TYT: Larry Lessig On How “Tyrannical” US Gov't Oppresses Black Americans. Int. w/Cenk Uygur (edit) (Original Post) WhoIsNumberNone Oct 2015 OP

It is SO F'n easy Plucketeer Oct 2015 #1

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1. It is SO F'n easy

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Fri Oct 23, 2015, 12:50 PM

Oct 2015

Easy to get caught up in the non-stop food fight of day-to-day back 'n forths. It really is! Hell - who doesn't wanna whack Gowdy in the head with a 2X4? I know I do - metaphorically anyway. But as Lessig and Cenk discuss here - it's THE MONEY that's the overarching problem. It is the fucking money. If the money quagmire was eliminated - to where it didn't stick to DC shoes - so many things would clear themselves up. But I'm like most of the rest of DU - I get caught up in a fist fight and FORGET it's the money The money - the money - the money - the money - the money......

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