That Thin Blue Line? It’s not between you and criminals, it’s between you and the 1%

Someone recently noted the peculiarity that in whatever city – no matter small or large – Black Lives Matters protests broke out, with no lag the police showed up in full military gear, ready to do battle with civilians.

https://www.kalb.com/2020/06/23/geared-up-questions-about-police-militarization-arise-again/

That’s due to a militarization that has taken place over the past few decades where local police forces have been encouraged by the federal government – and often even given grants to use – to purchase military equipment.

The argument for this post 9/11 policy was that police needed to be ready for terrorists. However, when you think about the infinitesimally small chance that terrorists would choose … say Kenosha Wisconsin … as their target, and also consider that the 9/11 terrorists were armed with nothing more than box cutters, in hindsight it seems almost certain the police were arming not to battle terrorists, but instead to battle the very civilians they were supposed to protect.

What would give US policy-makers such a fear that there would be civil unrest so widespread and so heavily attended that police would need full military gear to combat it?

Read this:

https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/

The Class War has already started, and nobody told us.

To Protect and Harass

The reporter describes this program as a cross between Moneyball and Minority Report. Sounds to me more like Fascism.

Pasco’s sheriff uses data to guess who will commit crime. Then deputies ‘hunt down’ and harass them.

Pasco’s sheriff created a futuristic program to stop crime before it happens. It monitors and harasses families across the county. [ DOUGLAS CLIFFORD | Times staff ]

https://www.tampabay.com/news/pasco/2020/09/03/pascos-sheriff-uses-data-to-guess-who-will-commit-crime-then-deputies-hunt-down-and-harass-them/

It’s always worse than you think

I never know if I should be happy that everything I’ve said for years is true, or sad that everything I’ve said for years is true.

Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean

Trump: Biden controlled by “dark shadows”; Red Flag seeks Barnabas Collins for comment

In one of the “strangest moments” of Donald Trump’s interview with Laura Ingraham, “as Trump ranted about people ‘controlling’ Joe Biden,” Mother Jones reports, “Ingraham asked Trump to identify the individuals that he believed to be ‘pulling Biden’s strings’ in order to transform the famously moderate former vice president into a radical, left-wing extremist. It appeared to be a soft-ball question—Ingraham suggested former Obama administration officials as one possibility—but the president swung and missed.”

“’People that you’ve never heard of,’ Trump said instead. ‘People that are in the dark shadows.’”

Red Flag Publishing is currently seeking a comment from Barnabas Collins about his alleged control over Joe Biden.

We’re just not sure where to dig him up.

Barnabas Collins and Joe Biden?

Zuckerberg: specialists in ID-ing dangerous posts couldn’t see the danger in openly calling for armed vigilantes because they were looking for “symbolism and innuendo”

Mark Zuckerberg on why posts soliciting armed vigilantes in Kenosha were not taken down:
 “It was largely an operational mistake,” Zuckerberg said. “It’s because the team that enforces our policy against dangerous organizations is a specialized team that is trained to look for symbolism and innuendo … and understand the details of how certain militias and conspiracy networks operate.”
So they were so attuned to “symbolism and innuendo” they couldn’t see the danger of OPENLY CALLING FOR VIOLENCE????
Jesus Fucking Christ.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/28/21405790/zuckerberg-kenosha-guard-killing-kyle-rittenhouse-facebook-moderation