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daleanime

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1. K&R....

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Mon Oct 27, 2014, 08:34 AM

Oct 2014

Good list, but one very important reason was left off the list.

Violence being used as a solution to our problems. Especially when it comes to our foreign polity.

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9 Events Which Created the Environment for America's Emerging Police State [View all] xchrom Oct 2014 OP

K&R.... daleanime Oct 2014 #1

I visited D.C. last year, looked at the monuments,... Jerry442 Oct 2014 #4

Then, dear Lord, let me die obscure. daleanime Oct 2014 #6

Pentagon Papers leaker and now fervent antiwar activist Daniel Ellsberg says KingCharlemagne Oct 2014 #15

K&R G_j Oct 2014 #2

K & R !!! WillyT Oct 2014 #3

10. Kent State KansDem Oct 2014 #5

The recent behaviour... CanSocDem Oct 2014 #7

Created, enabled, and protected by corporate-government rule in America. woo me with science Oct 2014 #21

When I first saw the photos of the Abu Ghraib Mr.Bill Oct 2014 #8

I would have to add the tv show COPS. Really the first one to glorify SWAT and terror tactics used LiberalArkie Oct 2014 #9

and it's broadcast on......Fox! Since 1988. LiberalElite Oct 2014 #11

I wonder if the big bad rough & tumble cops we have now watched COPS when they were LiberalArkie Oct 2014 #13

Well, there was a (fictional) TV show called SWAT ... eppur_se_muova Oct 2014 #14

We need to change the way law enforcement police themselves Uben Oct 2014 #10

I would also add the failure to prosecute Wall Street banking executives made it clear whereisjustice Oct 2014 #12

Good post. woo me with science Oct 2014 #16

Bull's eye. hifiguy Oct 2014 #18

Democratic National Convention … 1968. 11 Bravo Oct 2014 #17

Creeping fascism has been around since Hoover hifiguy Oct 2014 #19

kick woo me with science Oct 2014 #20

10. In 1985... Glassunion Oct 2014 #22