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appalachiablue

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126. Quite right, why isn't the police state $ being used to train people and create jobs! and

Tue Apr 28, 2015, 12:17 AM

Apr 2015

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revitalize 'post industrial' cities and rural, small town areas where there is little work, no grocery stores only convenience junk food places, and poverty, idleness, lack of stable community life which leads to crime, drugs, violence, mental illness and incarceration. Same in bombed out Midwestern areas, the Rustbelt, South and many other places in the US now.

NYC with finance, DC with govt., lobbyists and defense contractors, Silicon Valley's tech industry, Chicago and a few other major metro areas seem to be the main places thriving esp. from development, high property values and major gentrification for elites displacing regular workers. The rest of America may just be decaying, being plundered by predators or neglected altogether. This can't continue, or maybe it can...

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When the National Guard and/or federal assistance is sent in when a cop kills a black man [View all] marym625 Apr 2015 OP

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my what? marym625 Apr 2015 #2

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I just said marym625 Apr 2015 #5

I feel and understand your pain. Stellar Apr 2015 #11

exactly marym625 Apr 2015 #13

It must stop, marym. STOP the killing! Dont call me Shirley Apr 2015 #23

. marym625 Apr 2015 #24

How big does a business have to be for it to be OK to destroy it? Nye Bevan Apr 2015 #4

How many young men need to be killed? upaloopa Apr 2015 #6

"You have move complacent people off their places of comfort." Nuclear Unicorn Apr 2015 #7

Of Course. NOLALady Apr 2015 #18

That's not even coherent in relation to what I wrote. Nuclear Unicorn Apr 2015 #30

I have not heard NOLALady Apr 2015 #47

How about the call to end the murders by cops? marym625 Apr 2015 #19

I'm an anarchist; I don't even think there should be cops or a PIC or a state to suppress people. Nuclear Unicorn Apr 2015 #26

Good to know marym625 Apr 2015 #27

NO cops? None at all? And you think that would make things better? 7962 Apr 2015 #50

If there were to be cops they certainly wouldn't be this massive, self-perpetuating state that Nuclear Unicorn Apr 2015 #63

But that sounds just like a vigilante society. 7962 Apr 2015 #65

And where was this picture taken? Nuclear Unicorn Apr 2015 #68

Dimpur India. Fairly large city with a not so large police force 7962 Apr 2015 #116

"you can find stories like this by the dozens in places where the police are non existent..." Nuclear Unicorn Apr 2015 #118

Yes it has happened here unfortunately, in the South, the West & elsewhere when prisoners & appalachiablue Apr 2015 #120

Well, yes of course, but not in recent history like the picture. 7962 Apr 2015 #189

Who have always been responsible? pocoloco Apr 2015 #144

No state? TexasMommaWithAHat Apr 2015 #142

Being an anarchist does not preclude orgainizing for the betterment of others. Nuclear Unicorn Apr 2015 #145

Then you will have the state and all its trappings. :) TexasMommaWithAHat Apr 2015 #146

If what we want can only be had with wars and a PIC then we ned to rethink our wants. Nuclear Unicorn Apr 2015 #148

This whole thread reeks of NIMBY... Oktober Apr 2015 #95

Good point 7962 Apr 2015 #190

Come on Nye. marym625 Apr 2015 #8

My friend in Ferguson . .. PosterChild Apr 2015 #40

And how many people have to die at the hands of cops. blackspade Apr 2015 #41

Well said marym625 Apr 2015 #58

Yes! mountain grammy Apr 2015 #61

+1000 heaven05 Apr 2015 #72

+10 appalachiablue Apr 2015 #123

I agree. Enthusiast Apr 2015 #154

That is it in a nut-shell -none Apr 2015 #169

'Trickle down looting': sabrina 1 Apr 2015 #113

Max Keiser hits the mark often- appalachiablue Apr 2015 #127

Have you been raising Cain about the daily murders of Joe Chi Minh Apr 2015 #140

Kicked and Recced SwankyXomb Apr 2015 #9

Thank you marym625 Apr 2015 #10

Results... Major Nikon Apr 2015 #131

+1 Enthusiast Apr 2015 #155

Thank you for speaking from the heart Pooka Fey Apr 2015 #12

I honestly feel like I am going to break. marym625 Apr 2015 #14

You aren't alone Demeter Apr 2015 #39

amen to that! marym625 Apr 2015 #42

I was a little white kid living about 100 miles away during the Detroit riots Novara Apr 2015 #60

Spot on. Joe Chi Minh Apr 2015 #141

I feel your pain ciaobaby Apr 2015 #73

I have been watching Al Jazeera America marym625 Apr 2015 #98

Mayor of Baltimore ciaobaby Apr 2015 #107

It's just unbelievable. absolutely unbelievable marym625 Apr 2015 #108

+1! Enthusiast Apr 2015 #157

If more people watched Al Jazeera this country wouldn't be so fucked up. CrispyQ Apr 2015 #152

+1000 marym625 Apr 2015 #156

don't break heaven05 Apr 2015 #83

Thank you my friend marym625 Apr 2015 #99

+10 No place for PoC, the vulnerable, 'weak' or non wealthy in a greed driven, savage nation now- appalachiablue Apr 2015 #129

Damn tootin'!! nt hifiguy Apr 2015 #15

Thank you marym625 Apr 2015 #16

Well the national guard was called in. romanic Apr 2015 #17

Yes, they have marym625 Apr 2015 #20

Those of us who lived through the sixties NOLALady Apr 2015 #22

I don't remember looting over the injust Vietnam war. realFedUp Apr 2015 #31

Your point? NOLALady Apr 2015 #45

Really? marym625 Apr 2015 #52

Really? Google Hard Hat Riot smokey nj Apr 2015 #125

I want to know what the tab is and who is paying for this phalanx of Police, Military, and other libdem4life Apr 2015 #21

so true marym625 Apr 2015 #25

Rec this. Ilsa Apr 2015 #67

Add to that the lawsuits that do make it through and the City has to shell out millions. Do the libdem4life Apr 2015 #109

Quite right, why isn't the police state $ being used to train people and create jobs! and appalachiablue Apr 2015 #126

Yup. Pooka Fey Apr 2015 #133

The only winner from the shift from rural to city is WalMart. Local jobs are almost non-existent. libdem4life Apr 2015 #151

One doesn't equal the others realFedUp Apr 2015 #28

Just like John Crawford? Eric Garner? Tamir Rice? marym625 Apr 2015 #33

meh heaven05 Apr 2015 #75

kick and rec nadinbrzezinski Apr 2015 #29

Thank you Nadine marym625 Apr 2015 #34

This is my opinion. The Plutocratic Oligarchs are currently waging war against all of the 99%. rhett o rick Apr 2015 #32

I respect your opinion marym625 Apr 2015 #35

The elected officials essentially do our bidding. It's our responsibility to let rhett o rick Apr 2015 #46

and over and over again, marym625 Apr 2015 #48

This is getting so fucking old. NuclearDem Apr 2015 #36

+1000 marym625 Apr 2015 #37

This^ bvf Apr 2015 #49

+1000 heaven05 Apr 2015 #77

The national media ignored Gray's death Rosa Luxemburg Apr 2015 #128

Only Rachel showed a slide show of the other murderous cell phone images. The talking point was libdem4life Apr 2015 #153

+1 uponit7771 Apr 2015 #178

La rage marym625 Apr 2015 #38

Yup. Iggo Apr 2015 #43

It's sad. just heartbreaking marym625 Apr 2015 #44

Sorry about your pain Thespian2 Apr 2015 #51

I don't mean to minimize anything by saying that marym625 Apr 2015 #53

CVS can be rebuilt. Iggo Apr 2015 #111

exactly marym625 Apr 2015 #112

The average American can give a shit. Glassunion Apr 2015 #54

+1000 marym625 Apr 2015 #56

I don't feel safe when I can be murdered by a cop who didn't like how I look or what I said. sarge43 Apr 2015 #147

Cool. You're not average. Glassunion Apr 2015 #160

It is difficult not to share the anger and outrage. guillaumeb Apr 2015 #55

Thank you marym625 Apr 2015 #57

The obvious question is "Why do peaceful protests not seem to work?" guillaumeb Apr 2015 #64

That is such a big part of it marym625 Apr 2015 #66

Peaceful protest worked during the Vietnam Era, Maedhros Apr 2015 #173

Very true marym625 Apr 2015 #177

They weren't all peaceful Omaha Steve Apr 2015 #184

I have mentioned this a couple times in this thread marym625 Apr 2015 #188

Kick AuntPatsy Apr 2015 #59

Thank you marym625 Apr 2015 #62

you're in fine form heaven05 Apr 2015 #69

Thank you, Heaven marym625 Apr 2015 #74

I would say the governor is concerned much more with assuring the property owning, tax appalachiablue Apr 2015 #130

Very much so. marym625 Apr 2015 #134

Well there is a better way, but frankly we don't have the courage to do it. zeemike Apr 2015 #70

We do have the courage marym625 Apr 2015 #78

I was talking about us not them. zeemike Apr 2015 #97

I did marym625 Apr 2015 #104

Black lives, the disabled, the poor, matter. Ilsa Apr 2015 #71

+1000 marym625 Apr 2015 #82

+1000000000000000 NoJusticeNoPeace Apr 2015 #76

wow! marym625 Apr 2015 #84

... NoJusticeNoPeace Apr 2015 #88

First time I smiled all night marym625 Apr 2015 #102

Let me give you +a brazillion! nt tblue37 Apr 2015 #119

Thank you! marym625 Apr 2015 #122

Sent in when crimes realFedUp Apr 2015 #79

? marym625 Apr 2015 #85

Post removed Post removed Apr 2015 #96

I am a person who has a right to my opinion marym625 Apr 2015 #103

I asked them in another thread... NYC_SKP Apr 2015 #117

Looks like it marym625 Apr 2015 #121

Like when cops are killing unarmed citizens? Iggo Apr 2015 #110

MIRT!! BrotherIvan Apr 2015 #163

Add dogs to the list of police atrocity killings! LibGranny Apr 2015 #80

True marym625 Apr 2015 #89

We know WHY the police are out of control. How do we stop it??? blkmusclmachine Apr 2015 #81

I don't know marym625 Apr 2015 #91

If the police can't abide by the law Depaysement Apr 2015 #86

absolutely! marym625 Apr 2015 #92

Agreed n/t broadcaster75201 Apr 2015 #87

Thank you marym625 Apr 2015 #93

Couldn't care less about the CVS Egnever Apr 2015 #90

Don't worry, CVS will take care of all of that marym625 Apr 2015 #94

Word BrotherIvan Apr 2015 #164

yep. marym625 Apr 2015 #165

What a perfect statement. Daemonaquila Apr 2015 #100

It is. Is it yours? marym625 Apr 2015 #105

Recommended. As go Freddie Gray and Mike Brown, so go we all. NYC_SKP Apr 2015 #101

Thank you marym625 Apr 2015 #106

Thanks Mary. If only the outrage over property damage would be as great when a human sabrina 1 Apr 2015 #114

exactly marym625 Apr 2015 #115

+1 Pooka Fey Apr 2015 #136

I agree with you marym. I've been reading through these threads and truth2power Apr 2015 #124

The dedication of the people in Ferguson marym625 Apr 2015 #135

and war is never pretty Quayblue Apr 2015 #132

I am very glad I made the decision to not bring kids into this world. marym625 Apr 2015 #137

Yup. I knew I couldn't handle the fear. sarge43 Apr 2015 #149

Same here marym625 Apr 2015 #150

I don't blame you Quayblue Apr 2015 #170

I understand that marym625 Apr 2015 #174

K&R! stonecutter357 Apr 2015 #138

Thank you marym625 Apr 2015 #139

Some posts out there with important information not getting attention marym625 Apr 2015 #143

It's sad, it's frightening, but Duval Apr 2015 #158

far, far better marym625 Apr 2015 #161

Kicked Enthusiast Apr 2015 #159

Thank you marym625 Apr 2015 #162

Exactly correct, no actual straight reporting. It all has a right wing corporate bias built in. Enthusiast Apr 2015 #166

+1000 marym625 Apr 2015 #167

Police react og1 Apr 2015 #168

That "news" and all the pundits should have to have a marym625 Apr 2015 #179

1964. 1968. 1972. 1980. raven mad Apr 2015 #171

I'm sorry marym625 Apr 2015 #180

K&R Hutzpa Apr 2015 #172

Thank you! marym625 Apr 2015 #181

It is war, Mary. 99Forever Apr 2015 #175

Power to the People! marym625 Apr 2015 #182

Indeed 99Forever Apr 2015 #185

This is anger. And it's extremely hard to say it's not justified. calimary Apr 2015 #176

Absolutely! marym625 Apr 2015 #183

Well, I'm a mom, and that's the first thing I'd do. Take their damn toys away! calimary Apr 2015 #186

with these "children" marym625 Apr 2015 #187