blogdog:  “Imagination’s what’s lacking.”  I couldn’t agree with you more on that statement. And you know what?  Psychologists are now noticing the
widespread lack of “empathy” in modern societies, plus the apparently sudden rise in “autism” which manifests itself in several ways, one of which is—guess what—“lack of empathy” or “inability to recognize how others feel.”
  And after that, make a leap to the rapid increase in the “modern” world of cruelties beyond belief—incessant wars, ever-more destructive killing machines, the increase in PTSD as a result of “too much cruelty”.  Add to that the willing tolerance of massive starvation, abuses of all kinds, and rampant diseases, plus environmental breakdown.  Wow!  Who’s autistic now?  The occasional kid born with a deviation from “the norm”—or the norm itself?
That is, you and me and Tom, Dick and Harry who don’t have enough imagination to try to discover ways of changing for the better—and that, non-violently.

stealth cameras in every public place archiving wireless offsite - archives free and open
for one and all to use as they will- citizen protection initiative - catch every thug in
action - anytime, anywhere - civil rights attorneys standing by - if Bill Gates wants to do
something for humanity, this is it

what’s that you say, worried about all those drug deals being filmed? - baloney: legalize,
tax, fund rehab clinics - simple solution for a dumb society that couldn’t do it in 100
years

what’s that you say, worried about all the philanderers’ lives in ruin? - likely they’re
already that, but what they hey? - enough reality tv footage to last a lifetime - this
system pays its own way

imagination is what’s lacking

why look here, its Mr. Obama-bot himself, David Sirota.

Why he has been watching NPR and has recycled one of their pieces into his.

LAME.

Martha,
Indeed, it takes a special form of sociopath to be a politician, one who knowingly puts himself out as being better able than anyone else to represent the people’s interests through the “public trust”, and then systematically uses that position of power to then squash any ability the people may discover to wrest those parasitic bastards from their lofty perches.

These sociopaths are virtually incapable of doing anything productive in society except convincing others that actually DO work for a living how much everyone needs them in order for life to continue on this planet. They laterally parasitize the people around them because, when all is said and done, these people have such a poor relationship with any sense of the divine that they feel they have to steal energy from everyone around them in order to survive.

But they don’t see that. They are so consumed with their own pathetic survival that they would steal life jackets from children in order to save themselves on a sinking ship. And lastly, the reason why everything in Washington seems to always get worse than when these parasites started working on things is because they have no sense of optimism or faith that mankind is capable of doing anything constructive with a spiritual focus; things like planetary stewardship and what 2000 presidential candidate John Hagelun had proposed for our school systems ...... yoga and meditation. What a concept!

We’ve had a number of promising political candidates, who have had dreams of making society a better place, but their efforts have been systematically thwarted by people in power, like Rockefeller, the Rothschilds, Kissinger, and all those politicians who can’t seem to muster up any of the moral discipline they sold themselves to us as having. They hide in the shadows like snakes under a rock, because life to them is, well, all about them and has nothing to do with anything related to developing a symbiotic relationship with their environment or members of their own species; rather pathetic when you think about it.

If any one group brings the human species to the point of extinction, it will be this pathetic bunch.

It is true, BR549, the majority population has had a great con job
pulled on them and now the majority population are going to have
to stop looking to DC as the folks up there don’t give a shi_, at
least that would be good for fertilizer, which would be too much
benefit for the majority population, who will soon not be allowed
anything, if Conservatives and Republicans get their way. 

After all war against other countries that did not attack the USA is
the conservative priority, because other countries need
democracy, especially if they have oil as a resource, so democracy
in the USA is put in the toilet—wonderful conservative plan, NOT.

http://www.independent.com/news/2011/apr/29/big-con-job/?print

I should have said ....
“..... has failed the people by NOT insuring that they (our students) understand why we have the Constitution, before turning the graduates loose on society.”

Re: MarthaA, May 21 at 2:42 pm

Martha,
Probably the most insidious aspect of this whole social takeover has been the intentional defiling of our educational system by the legislature. They run through all the motions of being “for the people”, but both parties, probably the Democrat party most of all, has failed the people in allowing them to understand why we have the Constitution, before turning the graduates loose on society. 100 years ago, sixth graders knew more about history and civics than our high school graduates do today.

But while all this was going on; caving in to the banking interests through the Federal Reserve, and selling out the citizenry through Trojan Horses such as Social Security, we still have all the politicians who continue to pontificate through no shortage of hot air, while they look to the heavens for guidance and sport a fresh new American flag lapel pin. (Excuse me while I vomit.)

SoTexGuy, May 21 at 2:18 pm,

Because the Common Population in the United States is NOT
represented in either the making or the enforcing of legislated law
and order, even though they are the majority population, it
doesn’t matter, all that matters is that the people of the majority
population do not understand that they are not represented, 
need to be represented, and make a choice to be represented in
the making and enforcing of legislated law and order in the
Congresses of the United States, because they could be—the
Common Population are represented in the making and enforcing
of legislated law and order in England and other civilized countries
and the majority common population should be represented in the
making and enforcing of legislated law and order in the United
States, but they are not.

One small Border community here has just endured the spectacle of their Police Chief committing suicide (official story, not currently contested).. on the heels of that the department put out new rules restricting who could be filmed or photographed in official capacity and who could do the filming..

Scuttlebutt is that the department is involved with the violent Mexico cartels smuggling people and other contraband into the country.. and the chief was caught up in aiding or abetting that association. Who knows? For the sake of his family and friends I prefer to think he was an honest man with personal problems.

Recently, I was detained by the roadside in south Texas for some time by ICE officials.. one of the first demands made of me was that my digital camera (I’m a wildlife photographer) be turned off and put away.

What is the difference exactly between the armed thugs of the criminal cartels and our law enforcement people on the ground here? One has a public charter to operate? In Mexico and in spillover here the cartel enforcers seek out a specific level of publicity to inform the public of their intentions and capabilities.. but shun close scrutiny of who is involved and what exactly is
going on. They punish transgressions.

I’m a law abiding man and I support law enforcement and lawful society .. increasingly I see the lines between organized crime and the law enforcement industry being blurred.

Adios!

savagery..  Criminal gangs keep

tedmurphy41, May 21 at 2:02 am
........ the police services are interpreting this surveillance as an intrusion on their right to carry out their duties unimpeded by “hostile” influences. ......... and yet there are people prepared to take on and highlight this rotton core, even though their lives are at risk.

The outcome of this “rotten core” you speak of, which I assume are the once proud public safety officers now turned dysfunctional law enforcement officers, can best be seen when cells in the human body start attacking the very cells they were entrusted to protect; it’s called an auto-immune disease and it will eventually kill the very system that brought it into being. THAT is the future for these meat-headed adrenaline junkies and eventually, although we can’t expect IQ levels that low to comprehend concepts that large, they will hasten the demise of their own families and their own bloodlines. They never were being paid to actually ‘think’.

It employs, unfortunately on a far grander scale, the rules of Darwin, because unless they and the returning throng of foreskin headed jar-heads that still operate under the illusion that they were headed to the middle east to preserve freedom and democracy, a lot of people are going to have to suffer at their hands. Hopefully, we have a much higher percentage of Pat Tillmans in the service that know what the truth is and are just laying low.

I have speculated for a long time that, while the various legislatures and puppets in the White House have for decades been conditioning the US public to believe that WE have some God-given RIGHT to send troops anywhere we want, at any time, on some flimsy “preemptive” basis, that they have created a situation where too many of our fighting level citizens have signed up to protect us from men in caves and hoodwinked into thinking that the battle is overseas. The battle was never about men in caves; it was about men in $3,000 suits too willing to sacrifice our disillusioned youth to feed this auto-immune disease. Like a Trojan Horse, these traitorous members of the legislature have positioned those members of our families who could best defend them, somewhere other than on the home front; the same homefront that is being attacked from within. They also continue to allow for tens of thousands of foreign troops to be stationed in the US under the guise of “training”, for that one day when all hell breaks and they can then “justify” calling on the UN to please help with the conflict they had knowingly created; all a part of Brzezinski’s Grand Chessboard.

Assuming that some of them might be a little “slow” but still well-meaning, how many of these congressmen and senators are now realizing the wisdom within the Constitution and striving to bring our government back into compliance? ...... Silence ...... That’s what I mean. Where then does the average citizen begin to tackle the problem since those we had entrusted and are still being paid to preserve the Constitution are busy themselves getting ready to desert a sinking ship? Instead, that TV tube, no matter what manner of jibberish is pumped through it, becomes something a little easier to deal with ..... that and a six pack.

Rodney, 20;9:21 bears repeating, especially since it comes from real life experience: 
  “We live in a society where average citizens in many states are allowed to carry weapons. Criminals can get guns as easily as purchasing a soda. High unemployment,gangs, militias and the use of high capacity weapons have made this society the most dangerous it has ever been. Yet half a million law enforcement officer leave their homes and families everyday not knowing whether or not they will return. Videotape in the long run protects all
of us. No matter how good it does or doesn’t look.”

  PTSD is also an important factor to consider, and do something about—to the extend that repair is possible. 
  In the long run, giving up violence as the answer to social and political problems is the only viable answer, but it requires a huge shift in belief systems.

Some friends of mine from the NJ Libertarian Party in Camden, NJ while protesting loitering laws: 

NJLP Loitering Protest Interupted by Police
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw3qUj3vkho

Police ONLY protect the law.  Laws have been made in the best
interest of the upper two classes and cultures, the American
Aristocracy and the American Middle Class, and are NOT made in
the best interest of the majority population, the American Common
Populace.  The laws that are made and are continually being made
are laws that the above two classes and cultures deem to be in
THEIR OWN best interest, NOT THE MAJORITY POPULATION.

The majority population ARE a class and culture,
the COMMON CLASS AND CULTURE,  but the
majority population have yet to
learn that they are a class and culture that should be involved in
the making and enforcing of THEIR OWN legislated laws in THEIR
OWN class and cultural best interest along side the other two
classes and cultures, the American Aristocracy and the American
Middle Class; therefore, laws are NOT made or being made that
represent the 70% majority population’s class and culture at all,
which is why it is a felony for the majority common population to
tape a member of the Aristocracy and Middle Class’ protectors of
THEIR laws, since it is their law, and THEIR LAWS do not include
the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION.

      It is imperative that the majority common population of the
United States realize that they are a 70% majority population
class and culture, the COMMON POPULATION CLASS & CULTURE,
the American Common Populace, and demand their rights in the
making and enforcing of legislated law and order on the behalf of
the majority common population’s class and culture, the American
Populace.  As long as the majority common population keep
clinging to thinking they are the middle class and the poor, they
will never be able to organize into a powerful class and cultural
force for their part of the making and enforcing of legislated law
and order in the United States that will represent the MAJORITY
COMMON POPULATION’S interests, and it is sad, because the
majority population is most of the country. 

It is time for the common population in the United States to
understand that they are not the middle class, the middle class
abdicated responsibility for the common population as a class and
culture and only represent their own class and culture; and as
long as the majority population think they are the middle class,
laws will be made against their best interest and they will be
unable to do anything about it, because they have not accepted
the responsibility of their own class and culture and must accept
who they are as a class and culture in order to obtain equality in
legislated law and order—70% of the population are the Common
Population, the rest are the Middle Class and the Aristocracy.  The
worst thing one can do for our country is to fool yourself into
thinking you are something you are not, which is what has
happened and has been happening in the United States to the
majority common population.

It’s normally called accountability.
However, the police services are interpreting this surveillance as an intrusion on their right to carry out their duties unimpeded by “hostile” influences.
Germany’s media and the general public suffered this class of harrassment prior to Hitler taking power.
Mexico is now suffering a murderous harrassment during years of official corruption with no end in sight, and yet there are people prepared to take on and highlight this rotton core, even though their lives are at risk.

That’s what happens when your government owns you.

“WAKE UP PEOPLE!”  -  JOIN THE REVOLUTION
Read “Common Sense 3.1” at ( http://www.revolution2.osixs.org )

We don’t have to live like this anymore.
“Spread the News”

FIGHT THE CAUSE - NOT THE SYMPTOM

heavyrunner, May 20 at 5:00 pm,

Catching a police criminal being a criminal if it’s on camera is criminal
for the common majority, because police can’t be criminals in a police
state; therefore like DA’s, police seek immunity for their criminal
activity, but oh my, there’s so many cameras.  What’s a criminal
policeman to do?  There’s cameras everywhere—shooting a running
unarmed citizen in cold blood could be clicked on camera now, so will
policemen aim for the legs, instead of to kill?  Or will citizens with
cameras be made felons for catching the criminal acts on camera by
class and cultural law that plainly does not represent the citizens of
the majority populace’s class and culture.

There are so many cameras now that I think the police and other authorities must just assume they are being recorded. It would not be possible to beat everyone with a camera like they could 40 years ago. And cameras are so tiny now that it would not be possible to catch them all.

Fascists never like the light of truth shined toward them of course. And, since the majority of these thugs hired are knuckle-dragging, steroid-pumped jarheads returning home fresh from their war crimes in Iraq & Afghanistan, it’s only going to get worse.

JDmysticDJ

Unfettered? What is this “unfettered” I keep hearing about? The best definition I could come up with is “not restricted”. That is not true of libertarians. We are restrained. Even more-so than liberal progressives.  You see, we adhere to something called the Non-Aggression Principle. In summary:

is an ethical stance which asserts that “aggression” is inherently illegitimate. “Aggression” is defined as the “initiation” of physical force against persons or property, the threat of such, or fraud upon persons or their property. In contrast to pacifism, the non-aggression principle does not preclude violent self-defense. The principle is a deontological (or rule-based) ethical stance.

Your characterization of libertarians supporting anything “unfettered” is blatantly and flagrantly false.

FAIL

I just read your piece posted at TruthDig entitled “Turning the Camera on the Police.” Cops smashing cameras is nothing new. As a 17 year old boy in the summer of 1968 I was living along Lake Michigan in a little resort village named Frankfort. A friend and I hitch-hiked down to Chicago, some 350 miles, to check out the “action” at the demonstrations against the Viet Nam war during the same week as the Democratic Convention that summer. Yes, those demonstrations. We were there when Abby Hoffman climbed up on the statue in Grant Park and that famous photo was taken.

The next afternoon, Wednesday, I think, we were in the crowd of demonstrators on Congress Avenue, just off Michigan. The three networks had cameras set up on a platform at the corner of Michigan and Congress. There were 12,000 police and a like number of National Guard troops massed in all the streets to the west of Michigan Avenue. There was a total of about 3,000 demonstrators. A signal was given and the mob of “pigs” rushed the crowd. But they didn’t wade into the crowd beating everyone to a pulp right away. A few hundred cops came first and beat up all the cameramen at the Volkswagen sized cameras of the networks and elbowed their way through the crowd to anyone with a camera and smashed their cameras and beat anyone who had a notebook. After that was completed, which was a terrifying sight, because it was obvious what they were up to, another signal was given, and then the thousands of cops came en masse and beat the hell out of anyone they could get their hands on. I have always believed that my friend and I got away because we were just a little younger than everyone else and the pigs were afraid to beat us. It seemed like they were killing people all around us. The tear gas was thick and it was hard to see or breathe.

I am very discouraged when I think about the fact that Barack Obama recently appointed the son of the man in charge of that police riot Chief of Staff at the White House.

BTW, speaking of being on this for awhile, us left-wing
anarchists have been their for awhile.

The whole concept of Indymedia around and after the
Seattle protests was to get video cameras out in the
street filming the police.  And hoping that this might
protect some from police abuse ... although, instead of
causing restraint it usually just causes the cops to
attack the cameras.

Interesting that he doesn’t mention Denver, his home
town.  Denver’s had a bad run of cop after cop getting
his picture taken as they beat people up.  I tried
doing a bit of a compilation a while back ...  This is
of course examples of why the police don’t want their
picture taken.
http://commondebate.blogspot.com/2011/01/sometimes-
you-see-yourself.html

Trend?  Trend?  Impossible!  Why, that’s the hysteria of a conspiracy
theorist!  There can be no such “trend” in the USA!  This is Amerika! 
Land of the Free and Home of the Brave!  We have nothing
resembling a police state here!

Ah, the not so subtle whine of the ever expanding police state! The tragedy of all this is that there is a significant percentage of the population that is so pitifully stupid as to believe that what is happening is for THEIR benefit! If all Americans pointed their cell phone cameras at cops everytime they did anything ever so slightly questionable it would quickly overload the system ‘cause they can’t mess with everybody. Also, something needs done now because when all of those people comeback from the shooting gallery guess what jobs they’ll fit right into? You betcha, they’ll be the icing on the security apparatus and will do whatever they’re told by the regime unless we do something now to develop legal safeguards! Hope it’s not already too late!

A lot of them have been raised as crass american bullies, so they enjoy pushing people around and terrorizing them.

God has it backwasrds. he should be taking all of the brutish bozos, including the evil repugs, off of the planet so the rest of us can live in peace.

Fat Freddy

If I understand you correctly, you and your Libertarian brethren see the dangers of unfettered, unregulated police. Now, if we could just get you to see the dangers of unfettered, unregulated capitalism, an “L” would replace the “tarian” in your self identification.

Better late than never. Us evil, greedy, right-wing libertarian anarchists have been on this for quite some time now. Particularly, Reason Magazine. Glad you could join in. Here’s the latest via Mike Shanklin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBH67OYPCXc