Well, it’s time again to honor those gang members who put their live on the line to rape us, rape our children, rob us, assault us, assault their wives, husbands and children, and all sorts of things that have been done against us civilians. God, do I wish I didn’t grow up normally. (And to all those out there who know me, quit your laughing.) I wish I would have been a bully. Picking on students smaller than myself. It would be good training for my life as a LEO (”Liberty Eradication Operative”).
Or to be picked on by bullies. That wouldn’t be as good. But the end results would be the same. The civilian population would be afraid of me or better yet, idolize me, because they’re sheeple. Oh, well. “Que Sera, Sera” (Whatever Will Be, Will Be).
Let’s get on with this.
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Plain text is all the violent action they do and anything else.
Former New Orleans Police Department Lt. Michael Lohman today pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiring to obstruct justice, in connection with one of a string of violent encounters between police and civilians in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Police shot at least 10 people during the week after the storm made landfall. (We have been investigating the shootings, along with our partners the New Orleans Times-Picayune and PBS “Frontline.”)
Lohman’s guilty plea stems from the so-called Danziger Bridge incident of Sept. 4, 2005. Responding to an emergency call that day, New Orleans police officers shot six citizens—killing two—on and around the span.
The Times-Picayune has been covering the Danziger Bridge shootings from the start and it has the latest.
Lohman helped orchestrate the police’s investigation of the shooting, a probe portrayed in the bill of information as an attempted cover-up. The former lieutenant was involved in planting a handgun at the scene, drafted phony police reports, and lied to federal agents, according the court document. (The New York Times has good details on the alleged cover-up. And we at ProPublica have posted the bill of information in our easy-to-read document viewer.)
A teen wearing a clown mask with bright red-orange hair was arrested Tuesday, charged with the rarely reported offense of wearing a mask or hood on a public road and the more common crime of obstructing or resisting an officer without violence.
About 1:10 p.m. Tuesday, a deputy spotted the clown-masked man, later identified as Matthew Lopez, and at least one other person walking south on 58th Street North, a Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office report said.
They headed west through a wooded path near the rear of open offices. A deputy tailed them until a marked Temple Terrace police unit arrived. When the deputy tried to make contact, Lopez and another person ran, an arrest report states.
In its mission statement, the National Labor Committee (NLC) highlights the problem stating:
“Transnational corporations (TNCs) now roam the world to find the cheapest and most vulnerable workers.”
They’re mostly young women in poor countries like China, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia, Nicaragua, Haiti, and many others working up to 14 or more hours a day for sub-poverty wages under horrific conditions.
Because TNCs are unaccountable, a dehumanized global workforce is ruthlessly exploited, denied their civil liberties, a living wage, and the right to work in dignity in healthy safe environments. NLC conducts “popular campaigns based on (its) original research to promote worker rights and pressure companies to end human and labor abuses. (It) views worker rights in the global economy as indivisible and inalienable human rights and (believes) now is the time to secure them for all on the planet.”
I’m not so arrogant as to believe that I know the perfect solution to our economic problems. Anyone that tells you they know is either a fool or a liar.
However, that doesn’t mean we can’t discover where we went wrong once you apply a little logic and data to the situation.
For instance, if you realize you have taken a wrong turn, it makes more sense to turn around and go back to the corner where the mistake was made, than it does to drive in a general direction and hope you can find your way home.
When it comes to the economy, its pretty easy to discover when the wrong turn was made – 1972.
The current downturn, even if the recession “officially” is over, is beginning to look like a reply of the 1930s. In fact, the “Progressive” Atlantic recently ran a most depressing story about what happens as joblessness becomes institutionalized:
The worst effects of pervasive joblessness—on family, politics, society—take time to incubate, and they show themselves only slowly. But ultimately, they leave deep marks that endure long after boom times have returned. Some of these marks are just now becoming visible, and even if the economy magically and fully recovers tomorrow, new ones will continue to appear. The longer our economic slump lasts, the deeper they’ll be.
If it persists much longer, this era of high joblessness will likely change the life course and character of a generation of young adults—and quite possibly those of the children behind them as well. It will leave an indelible imprint on many blue-collar white men—and on white culture. It could change the nature of modern marriage, and also cripple marriage as an institution in many communities. It may already be plunging many inner cities into a kind of despair and dysfunction not seen for decades. Ultimately, it is likely to warp our politics, our culture, and the character of our society for years.
The powers that be say government must “stimulate” the economy through new spending or the system will be moribund for the foreseeable future. That means activist government, government that forces up wages (to give us “purchasing power”), government that taxes the “rich” and “gives to the poor.” Indeed, the editorial pages of the mainstream New York Times and the Washington Post provide a cornucopia of such utterings.
