AMERICA HAS BECOME A MILITARIZED POLICE STATE — TIME TO DEMILITARIZE!

UPDATE – RAND PAUL: BLAMES BIG GOVERNMENT FOR FERGUSON

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PAUL = Ferguson, MO is due to “militarization of law enforcement” + “erosion of civil liberties” particularly for African-Americans = “targeted” by POLICE & GOVERNMENT

PAUL = “If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But I wouldn’t have expected to be shot. Given the racial disparities in our criminal justice system, it is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.”

PAUL = Warns against a police state with “a military response.” = “the images and scenes we continue to see in Ferguson resemble war more than traditional police action.”

Slate’s David Weigel notes Paul makes his case that “big government has been at the heart of the problem. Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies—where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.”

PAUL + Justin Amash = Took a much harder stance on Ferguson’s police response than most GOPers.

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KKK = REMILITARIZE POLICE!

KKK Raising Money for Police Officer Who Shot African-American Teen of Ferguson, Mo. = Combustible mix of rubber bullets, snarling police dogs and clouds of tear gas that have filled its streets for three days is the Ku Klux Klan.

The South Carolina-based New Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan desperate for publicity and any opportunity to spread hate and terror = Missouri chapter is raising money for the still unidentified white police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, 18, who was scheduled to begin college classes this week. = “We are setting up a reward/fund for the police officer who shot this thug….He is a hero!” — Klan group said in an email.

“If we fail to act, the fires of frustration and discontent will continue to burn, not only in Ferguson, Missouri, but all across America.”

 — Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.)

LAPD + NYPD + FERGUSON + OCCUPY OPPRESSION

“No nation could preserve its FREEDOM in the midst of continual warfare.”

— President James Madison

“The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and azzazzins. The kiIIers will fail, and the lRAQi (AMERICAN) people will live in freedom.”

— GW BUSH (R)

“Here you are, you’re a IiberaI, probably define peace as the absence of confIict. I define peace as the ability to defend yourself and bIow your enemies into smithereens.”

— Sean Hannity, FOX NOlSE (October 2OO9)

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

— President Abraham Lincoln (R)

“They hate our freedoms — our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other.”

— GW BUSH (R) – September 2Oth, 2OO1 – PATRlOT ACT ROB OURS!

LETS PROVE THIS GUY WRONG!  WE STILL HAVE A CHANCE!

“I Tell You, Freedom And Human Rights In America Are DOOMED. The U.S. Government Will Lead The American People In — And The West In General — Into An Unbearable HeII And A CHOKlNG Life….We will Bankrupt America!”

 — OBL Oct 21, 2OO1 Al-Jazeera Interview 

“We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.”

— President Dwight Eisenhower (R)

“Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and Oppression.”

— Malcolm X

“Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press….”

— The Bill of Rights – First Amendment

“Today we are engaged in a DEADLY global struggle for those who would intimidate, TORTURE, and MURDER people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own MORAL compass pointed in a true direction.”

— President Obama

“The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation”

— President Carter 

“One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.”

— Howard Zinn

“Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.”

— John V. Lindsay

“The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.”

— Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis

“Freedom is not nurtured by nations preparing for war.”

— William Appleman Williams

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”

— William Pitt

“No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville\

“Violence is a DlSEASE, a DlSEASE that CORRUPTS all who use it regardless of the cause.”

— CHRlS HEDGES

“The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, IRAQlS, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them—violence.”

— CHRlS HEDGES

“The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.”

— BENJAMlN NETANYAHU, Current PM

“Anyone who has proclaimed VIOLENCE his method inexorably must choose LYlNG as his principle.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“VIOLENCE is an admission that one’s ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.”

— SENATOR Edward M. Kennedy

“GOD Hates VIOLENCE. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.”

— Euripides

“NONVIOLENCE is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and VIOLENCE without resorting to oppression and VIOLENCE. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The FOUNDATlON of such a method is love.”

–MLKJR–

“POVERTY is the worst form of VIOLENCE.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“You never need an argument against the use of VIOLENCE, you need an argument for it.”

— NOAM CHOMSKY

“[The media] are vigilant guardians protecting privilege from the threat of public understanding and participation… [instead of VIOLENCE] more subtle means are required: The manufacture of consent… deceiving the masses with “necessary illusions.”

— NOAM CHOMSKY

“Safety and security don’t just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our SOClETY, a life free of violence and fear.”

— Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa

“There can be no keener revelation of a SOClETY’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.”

— Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa

“The American FASClST would prefer not to use VIOLENCE. His method is to POlSON the channels of public information.”

— Vice President Henry A. WaIIace, 33rd VP of the US (1941–1945) under FDR

“A FASClST is one whose lust for MONEY or POWER is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, reIigions, cuItures, regions or NATlONS as to make him ruthIess in his use of DECElT or VIOLENCE to attain his ends.”

— VP Henry A. WaIIace, 33rd VP of the US (1941–1945) under FDR

“Intolerance is itself a form of VIOLENCE and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.”

 — Mahatma Gandhi

“Heroism on COMMAND, senseless VIOLENCE, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I Hate them!”

— AIbert ElNSTElN

“NONVIOLENCE means avoiding not only external physical VIOLENCE but also internal VIOLENCE of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to Hate him.”

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against lsraeI by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don’t want peace, but rather seek the ultimate DESTRUCTlON of lsraeI.

— John Boehner – OWNED BY AIPAC AND WALL STREET

“Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“If, finally, violence meets with violence, we have confirmation of the age old adage that war though it kills many men, makes many more men evil.”

 — Fritz Medicus

“The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.”

 — Hannah Arendt

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

 — Issac Asimov

“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.”

 — Mahatma Gandhi – Israel has proved this over and over again for decades

“If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle…your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.”

 — Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”

 — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Violence is not power, but the absence of power.”

 — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.”

 — Robert F. Kennedy

“A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.”

 — Sigmund Freud

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make VIOLENT revolution inevitable.”

— President J-F-K–

“Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?”

— Thomas Henry Huxley, The Evolution Of Theology: An Anthropological Study