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POPSLiving in the Republic of Teahadistan: Cruel America
There have been many signs recently that the United States has been traveling down a steepening path of cruelty ... the facts of the crimes having become known, former President Bush and former Vice President Cheney publicly embraced their wrongdoing, as they have done most recently on their respective book tours. To the impunity they already enjoyed, they added brazenness, as if challenging society to respond or else enter into tacit complicity with the abuses. President Obama, even as he ordered an end to torture, decided against imposing any legal accountability on the miscreants, and in fact shunned any accountability whatsoever. He did not even seek, say, some equivalent of the Truth and Reconciliation process in South Africa after the end of apartheid. Our criminal justice system reeks of cruelty. Bradley Manning the readiness to deny healthcare to the dying, a pitiless will to deprive suffering people of whatever aid they may be receiving is evident.
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POPSMore Mexican Mayhem & Murder This is so terrible. In the USA we have the 'myths,' and stories of the gangster era during alcohol Prohibition, but this is a hundred times, a thousand times worse. The so-called "Drug Wars,' are not working, just as the Prohibition era did not work. Legalizing marijuana would take most of the unnecessary heat off this boiling cauldron. There is much more behind the so-called 'Drug Wars,' than government concern for the health and well-being of the people (if you still happen to believe that). It's about control of wealth, control of the population and, significantly, an excuse (like the War Against Terrorism) to impose USA control on foreign governments. http://www.americancitizenstogether.org
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