by Demon of Undoing » Fri Jun 17, 2011 5:19 am
Gentlemen , I mean this with all due propriety and in long appreciation of fine relationships , but please shut up. Forget this partisan, stereotype fueled bullshit. At least in this thread. Which party is responsible for ?
Feminists in Washington steering police policy ( the Second Set of books) ? Or the very sort of mindless enforcement of ever more Draconian policies that Anon , and Infowars , and Ron Paul and others speak of ? A guy commits a ( comparatively mild) act of abuse and as a result an entire family is shattered , likely to the second and third generation ? Is this even conscionable ? And yet I can show you that sort of egregious force used against everyday people - regular folks that made mistakes , not Bin Laden , not Bundy - in probably a dozen different vectors.
It doesn't register in the numbers right. Our stats are off. I know for a fact the permanent underclass's getting larger. As said by another , you can treat people like that as long as the bread and circuses are present enough to convince enough people. Once the Calligulan excesses of the state are shown, then the impetus may be there for common rabble to become something else.
This man had sins. He was no saffroned monk. Wasn't even a destitute fruit vendor. But what is America , what are Americans ? Do we even have holy men to burn themselves any more ? Maybe all that's left are flawed people that just ran out of steam somehow and let it get corrupt. But if it has come to this , and nothing changes , then I can only recall Jefferson's words about shuddering for his country when he remembers that God shares no attribute with the oppressor.
Don't know what it is, but I'm agin'it.