In all of this, few if any have maintained anything that one might call a balanced perspective.
Militarization (2) ever since Bush (43) / 9-11 started spreading $$$ around, small police jurisdictions have pressured their congressmen to spread the $$$ their way. Even though, reasonable people could make a case the cities like NYC, Chicago, LA, Boston, SF, and the like can make the case that they deserve more $$$ than Fergistan or Sanford Fla, the smaller jurisdictions doing the machoi ego crisis thing stomped and screamed. Voila, Uncle Sam opened up the armories and generous quantities of military grade materials went their way. Result, Fergistan. Because, within a limited framework, the local rubes, bozos, and denizens of the local chamber of commerce and civic pride had to strut their stuff.
Militarization (1) of local police nothing new ... been around eversince people wondered why drug gangs had semi-automatics wearing body armor while police have side arms and little else.
heard too many people talk like this is something recent. It isn't. Police brutalisation has been going on since the sixties / LA / Rampart street situation.
Best commentary on fergistan 2014-aug-24 Sunday WABE Atlanta On The Media / NPR
Monday, August 25, 2014
Saturday, August 2, 2014
Ray Gun Myths
In
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction
Political Fiction
Didion, Joan
Didion examines R. Ray-guns behaviour in office in terms of his experience as an actor. He was always on a shoot. He treated everyone as extras, gofers, but never friends.
He also left us with a larger budget deficit and in some ways a larger government. Larger because Ray-gun enlarged the military.
Then synapses rubbed together and serotonin flowed. What should appear to my wondering eyes but the supply chain that all those military purchases crated in the great American market place. All the Lockheads, Martin Mariettas, Westinghouse, General Electrics, Blackwaters, Whackenhunts , and Halliburtons. All those business in the United States of armed America that make anything and everything for all the branches of the military: And all the people they employ.
Those people vote. Yes they do: And not just every four year when the big man runs but every two years when the little local congressman runs. Yes they do. For that congress man sits on an appropriations committee. One which sends $$$ money $$$ to the companies that employ our patriotic voter.
O yes. O yes. O yes.
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction
Political Fiction
Didion, Joan
Didion examines R. Ray-guns behaviour in office in terms of his experience as an actor. He was always on a shoot. He treated everyone as extras, gofers, but never friends.
He also left us with a larger budget deficit and in some ways a larger government. Larger because Ray-gun enlarged the military.
Then synapses rubbed together and serotonin flowed. What should appear to my wondering eyes but the supply chain that all those military purchases crated in the great American market place. All the Lockheads, Martin Mariettas, Westinghouse, General Electrics, Blackwaters, Whackenhunts , and Halliburtons. All those business in the United States of armed America that make anything and everything for all the branches of the military: And all the people they employ.
Those people vote. Yes they do: And not just every four year when the big man runs but every two years when the little local congressman runs. Yes they do. For that congress man sits on an appropriations committee. One which sends $$$ money $$$ to the companies that employ our patriotic voter.
O yes. O yes. O yes.
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