Subj : Re: 40 mph "Cracker" eater loose in Detroit River. To : All From : wildbilly@withoutta.net Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 19:20:06 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september ..org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-septemb er.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!b order3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!no via!posts.news.sonic.net!nnrp1.nntp.sonic.net!not-for-mail From: Billy Newsgroups: misc.survivalism,az.politics,dfw.politics,ca.politics,tx.guns Subject: Re: 40 mph "Cracker" eater loose in Detroit River. Organization: Camp Runamuck References: User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.2 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:02:14 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 164 NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Jul 2012 18:02:15 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 4fd0414e.news.sonic.net X-Trace: DXC=YDMj\f7k79f2;25n^?V\[lm4K\QM1CV^`1OYf0H`?;XaB@f=dCJPBR`iPk=U9`[2Fc<4PO2]hRN _g X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net Xref: news.eternal-september.org misc.survivalism:21039 az.politics:2289 dfw.politics:166 ca.politics:5312 tx.guns:1648 In article , azjohn wrote: Jim Crow and the Crackers are baaack. What is neo-liberalism? 1. THE RULE OF THE MARKET. Liberating "free" enterprise or private enterprise from any bonds imposed by the government (the state) no matter how much social damage this causes. Greater openness to international trade and investment, as in NAFTA. Reduce wages by de-unionizing workers and eliminating workers' rights that had been won over many years of struggle. No more price controls. All in all, total freedom of movement for capital, goods and services. To convince us this is good for us, they say "an unregulated market is the best way to increase economic growth, which will ultimately benefit everyone." It's like Reagan's "supply-side" and "trickle-down" economics -- but somehow the wealth didn't trickle down very much. 2. CUTTING PUBLIC EXPENDITURE FOR SOCIAL SERVICES like education and health care. REDUCING THE SAFETY-NET FOR THE POOR, and even maintenance of roads, bridges, water supply -- again in the name of reducing government's role. Of course, they don't oppose government subsidies and tax benefits for business. 3. DEREGULATION. Reduce government regulation of everything that could diminsh profits, including protecting the environmentand safety on the job. 4. PRIVATIZATION. Sell state-owned enterprises, goods and services to private investors. This includes banks, key industries, railroads, toll highways, electricity, schools, hospitals and even fresh water. Although usually done in the name of greater efficiency, which is often needed, privatization has mainly had the effect of concentrating wealth even more in a few hands and making the public pay even more for its needs. 5. ELIMINATING THE CONCEPT OF "THE PUBLIC GOOD" or "COMMUNITY" and replacing it with "individual responsibility." Pressuring the poorest people in a society to find solutions to their lack of health care, education and social security all by themselves -- then blaming them, if they fail, as "lazy." The above was inflicted by Western industrial countries on "Developing" countries under the IMF scheme called Structural Adjustment Programs (SAP). Key Points of SAP The U.S. leverages its dominant role in the global economy and in the IFIs to impose SAPs on Third World countries, and open their markets to competition from U.S. companies. (Like NAFTA did, or the presently debated Trans-Pacific Partnership will, which Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Department in the Reagan administration, says will result in global privilege for the corporate class as a class immune to government regulation.) SAPs are based on a short-term, profit-maximization model that perpetuates poverty, inequality, and environmental degradation. Social safety nets and good governance reforms do not compensate for the serious flaws that SAPs introduce by deregulating laws and diminishing the statešs capacity to protect the welfare of its citizens. -- The point of the above exposition is that it was tried out on other countries, weaker countries, before it was used on the First World. Now to the point. Black people in America are being kept second class citizens, and robbed of their Constitutional rights in order to reduce democracy, and serve the Federal Prison Industries (Unicor) as cheap labor. Although the majority of illegal drug users and dealers nationwide are white, three-fourths of all people imprisoned for drug offenses have been black or Latino. [R]ates and patterns of drug crime do not explain the glaring racial disparities in our criminal justice system. People of all races use and sell illegal drugs at remarkably similar rates. If there are significant differences in the surveys to be found,they frequently suggest that whites, particularly white youth, are more likely to engage in illegal drug dealing than people of color.'' One study, for example, published in 2000 by the National Institute on Drug Abuse reported that white students use cocaine at seven times the rate of black students, use crack cocaine at eight times the rate of black students, and use heroin at seven times the rate of black students. That same survey revealed that nearly identical percentages of white and black high school seniors use marijuana. The National Household Survey on Drug Abuse reported in 2000 that white youth aged 12-17 are more than a third more likely to have sold illegal drugs than African American youth. Thus the very same year Human Rights Watch was reporting that African Americans were being arrested and 'imprisoned at unprecedented rates, government data revealed that blacks were no more likely to be guilty of drug crimes than whites and that white youth were actually the most likely of any racial or ethnic group to be guilty of illegal drug possession and sales. Any notion that drug use among blacks is more severe or dangerous is belied by the data; white youth have about three times the number of drug-related emergency room visits as their African American counterparts. The racial bias inherent in the drug war is a major reason that 1 in every 14 black men was behind bars in 2006, compared with 1 in 106 white men. For young black men, the statistics are even worse. One in 9 black men between the ages of twenty and thirty-five was behind bars in 2006, and far more were under some form of penal control--such as probation or parole. These gross racial disparities simply cannot be explained by rates of illegal drug activity among African Americans, but they can be explained by arbitrary enforcement by officers and prosecutors seeking Federal financial backing which comes with arrests. Arrests, that if they were made in "white" communities would cause a ferocious, political backlash. Being convicted of a felony results in being barred from public housing by law, discriminated against by private landlords, ineligible for food stamps, forced to "check the box" indicating a felony conviction on employment applications for nearly every job, and denied licenses for a wide range of professions, people whose only crime is drug addiction or possession of a small amount of drugs for recreational use find themselves locked out of the mainstream society and economy‹permanently. The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (Available at a library near you.) p. 92 - 98 Good you say. Get those drug addicts off the streets, but . . . The American citizens, like the frogs in the slowly heating pot, seem unaware that the same stop-and-frisk rule, the Terry v. Ohio decision stands for, the proposition that, so long as a police officer has "reasonable articulable suspicion" that someone is engaged in criminal activity and dangerous, it is constitutionally permissible to stop, question, and frisk him or her--even in the absence of probable cause, can be applied to ANYONE! Neo-liberalism started in the Third World, and now it's in the First World. Our phones are already tapped. Our emails are read. Our credit card purchases, and grocery card purchases can tell what we eat and drink, or read. We can be located, and eavesdropped on by our telephones. We can be watched through our computer camcorders. Our "smart" electric meters track our domestic habits. Soon we will have drones watching us from over head. "Stop and Search" started with mostly people of color, but it could be coming to a street near you soon. How long before the government starts picking up dissidents? Our government is supposed to establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity. I don't see anything in there that says we have to bailout fraudulent bankers, start vanity wars, or poison the populous with pollution from air, water, and food. Hellooooooo . . . . -- Welcome to the New America. or E Pluribus Unum Green Party Nominee Jill Stein & Running Mate, Cheri Honkala --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .