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All it took was stomach-wrenching police brutality and murder!
My job is weird. And terrible.
But people are watching the video, right? Most of the top ten viewed Reason posts of all time are about police brutality (with a few about legalization of marijuana). I think this is a good sign.
So why does this keep happening? And being forgiven? This thing where power kills (and imprisons).
Why is Romney or Obama (but likely Obama) going to win in November?
Why am I so sure that a bunch of my friends who pretend to despise politics, who are disappointed in Obama, who say they hate all this, that they are going to go chickenshit and vote for him again, or for the first time?
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Psst
Justin Amash’s communications director confirmed some of my fears about how government functions. Nothing conspiritorial, just awful,a wful failures.
Don’t worry, these people can totally take care of things for us. Don’t even worry about it.
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Doh. I am the worst at multi-tasking. What I meant was that Amash’s person was awesome and he confirmed (off the record) that people who run our lives just don’t even know. Or they do know and that’s worse. And I already knew that, but it was still unsettling. So vague, but still, ugh.
And now I kind of heart Justin Amash.
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Yes, yes you can, Ron(s).
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Ed & Elaine Brown: Property Rights Advocates Jailed for Life.
“Four years ago a Plainfield, NH couple found themselves threatened by strangers with guns who demanded their property. Rather than submit to their demands the pair - Ed and Elaine Brown - stood up for their rights.
Their actions brought them support from many others who reached similar conclusions - that another individual doesn’t have a right to your property simply because they claim that’s the case. Despite harming no one Ed and Elaine Brown were kidnapped and were ordered caged for decades.”
Please watch this video if you’re still somehow questioning the extent to which the US government has turned into a police state.
the worst part is they probably spent more in taxpayer dollars arresting the Browns than they would have collected from them
Here in America you’re free. Unless you you have too many guns, an extra weird religion, home school improperly, do drugs, grow drugs, touch a cop, take a picture, maybe abuse children, maybe commit a sex crime or what can be categorized as one out of convenience or basically come under the eye of some informant with an obvious vested interest in lying. Or, very importantly, try to evade paying taxes.
You’re free. Unless you suddenly fall into one of those categories where you’re not. And then they can do most anything they want to you.
Conveniently enough the Browns were weirdos. They were unquestionably made an example of. 37 years for potential harm. Cops and government folks actually kill and get two years plus double time served, or more often, nothing at all.
Source: libertarians
And then we have this.
(True story: my roommate gets cranky at all our harassing of him for wussing out his “left-libertarian” ideals and voting for Kerry, then Obama. But even he laughed when my boyfriend changed roommate’s home page to buy an Obama commemorative plate. The best part was his computer was so slow it crashed. Ha ha ha.)
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