"Militarized" - It Ain't Equipment

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Tuesday December 23, 2014 · 10:55 AM PST

2014/12/23 · 10:55

The focus on the tanks and guns and other toys is obscuring the crucial point about our killer cops - they are NOT "rogue officers", they are NOT killing Americans with their armored trucks and machine guns and spy toys, they're killing them with their regular ol' handguns, their usual electrocution tasers, their usual chemical weapons-grade gas and as in the Garner case, their bare hands. They're killing them with INTENT, because they're trained to be soldiers in an enemy land. And we're the enemy. And they're just doing their job.

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Sunday September 21, 2014 · 7:33 AM PDT

2014/09/21 · 07:33

From the point of view of "the greater good", is it possible that the ideal topper to "The Savior of FSU Football - The Jameis Winston Story" would be for him to rape another girl - but with a few highly imperative conditions? One - she has to make sure to secure his sperm inside; Two - obtaining some bruising in the process would be very helpful, though not strictly necessary. Maybe if she just slapped him, en-route, he would reciprocate - he's definitely got that sadistic "Winner's Edge" to his leer already. And Three - above all, the entirely non-negotiable condition: she has a .357 magnum in her purse and when he flashes that big, triumphant shit-eating "I Always Win-Grin", she splatters it all over the fucking walls.

stubhead

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Sunday September 14, 2014 · 10:31 AM PDT

2014/09/14 · 10:31

Regarding football players, MMA fighters, boxers, wrestlers: men can be trained to achieve a frighteningly successful level of instant violence in their day job, and are often rewarded most based on the level of violence they can generate. And the question here that no one is asking is: Is it difficult or impossible for some of these men to build a wall between what they do for a living - who they ARE, in America - and how they treat people outside of their trained field? Are we asking men who often started their training in violence at a single-digit age to behave as schizophrenics, to switch from body-slamming warriors to coo-coo diaper changers in an unexamined blink? And, the reason no one is asking this question - is it because we intrinsically know, and HATE, the answer?

Below the fleeting yellow wisp of ideas:

stubhead

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Monday August 25, 2014 · 2:20 PM PDT

2014/08/25 · 14:20

Do you ALL recognize that we are only one more celebrity death or hurricane away from being "done" with Ferguson? Even another dance craze, magnitude "Gangnam Style", may be enough to additively camelback Ferguson, killer cops, and uncomfy racism off the "front page" and back into the wasteland of used-news. And the questions of "WHY that is?" and "WHO gets to choose the news?" aren't worth the paranoia they're written on - they're just a few more worthless questions that effectively change absolutely NOTHING.

But boy, wasn't "Ferguson" fun while it lasted, didn't it feel good to get all incensed & empathetic & shit for a little bit? THIS IS MURDER - AS INFOTAINMENT.

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stubhead

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Thursday August 16, 2012 · 7:59 AM PDT

2012/08/16 · 07:59

I do not have time to get into this, but last night I was searching out some music on YouTube and I was automatically diverted to an ad for "Dishonorable Disclosures", a "film" explaining how the security leaks from the White House that Obama is using for political advantage were endangering American lives and perhaps have already killed some.

http://www.opsecteam.org/

http://www.youtube.com/...

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