(#237-1) May 29 2015. What kind of America do Americans want? A money-driven, crony-driven, propaganda-driven, militarized, corporatized, polarized, privacy-free, big data dominated, socially controlled oppressive model is fast emerging—even while America grows more socially liberal.

I GREW UP WITH MOSTLY UNARMED, STRICTLY CIVILIAN, POLICE FORCES IN THE UK AND IRELAND

THIS LEVEL OF POLICE SHOOTINGS STRIKES ME AS DISTURBING—BUT I APPRECIATE MY ATTITUDES ARE EUROPEAN.

MORE WORRYING IS THE DEGREE TO WHICH POLICE SHOOTINGS ARE INADEQUATELY INVESTIGATED. THE POLICE CANNOT, ADEQUATELY, INVESTIGATE THEMSELVES.

A SURVEILLANCE STATE + MILITARIZED POLICE + THE HIGHEST RARE OF INCARCERATION IN THE WORLD + DAILY KILLINGS DAY BY POLICE—DOES NOT A DEMOCRACY MAKE. BUT IT IS FINE FOR A PLUTOCRACY (the current system)

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