We are being inundated with media and govt condemnation of the violence committed in Ferguson in response to the Grand Jurys failure to indict Darren Wilson for murdering Michael Brown. This is my response: Feel free to share There is, frankly, no worse violence than that committed by an economic system (in this case capitalism) that forces people into poverty, that treats people of color like expendable beings while claiming to be post-racial, that denies good public education to most of our youth, that looks the other way while women, gays, transgendered folk are brutalized, that denies a future and hope to college students so deep in debt that they are forced into minimum wage jobs with no hope of ever getting above water, that allows corporations to collect tax subsidies while doing away with or moving jobs to low-wage areas of the world, that permits bankers and hedge funds to manipulate stock prices to benefit only CEO bonuses and obscene profits, that looks the other way while banks break the law without punishment but jails working people for stealing food, that supports the rape of the earth to extract fossil fuels that will ultimately destroy that very earth, that kills thousands of innocent people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and other nations too numerous to list just to prop up US defense contractors who line the pockets of our elected leaders, and ultimately threatens the lives and futures of all of us who are not part of the tiny .001% that controls the worlds economy. And you want me to condemn the acts of desperate people who express their frustration in the only way they now see as bringing attention to injustice? Sorry, the violence of the state against all of us is the only violence I am willing to condemn. Now and forever.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 20:36:25 +0000
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