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Spree Killings in Colorado Springs & San Bernardino: 2 types of not dissimilar political extremism
Let’s be clear: These spree killings are all, in their own ways, acts of terrorism. Certain kinds of weapons, like the slightly modified combat rifles used in California, and certain kinds of ammunition, must be outlawed for civilian ownership. It … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, 9-11, Biology, California, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Colorado, Conservatives, Crime, Democracy, DHS, DOJ, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, FBI, Government, Islam, Justice, Law Enforcement, Liberals, Libertarians, Media, Mental Health, Murder, Police, Presidential Elections, Progressives, Propaganda, Terrorism, Terrorists, United States, War on "Terror", Women's Rights
Tagged Congress, Ferguson (MO), Law Enforcement, Officer Involved Shootings, police, Racism, Republicans, Terrorism
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Paris
By ann summers Expect airstrikes in Syria and some serious covert work to resolve the crisis even though in each case, AfPak, Iran/Iraq/Syria, and even Yemen, regional alliances would best serve the causes of peace. This is not the way … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Liberties, Democracy, European Union, Foreign Policy, France, History, Iraq, Islam, Media, Memorial, Political Science, Syria, War
Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates, Picture of the Day
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POC aren’t the problem for the Homeland’s “war on terror”
By ann summers The problem is as it’s always been – the ethnocentrism of the European colonizers and their American-born descendants, basing their bias on property and power and in the case of recent GOP politics on the fear of … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Civil Liberties, Constitutional Law, Crime, Criminal Law
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Unintended consequences: The 1965 Immigration Act and its nativist contradictions for 2016
By ann summers Would you go “back to where you came from” even if you’re from here, so that you could return to enjoy(sic) the rights of full citizenship and even though those you encounter on a daily basis discriminate … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Civil Liberties, Conservatives
Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates
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East Texas 9th Grader, Ahmed “Big Bang Theory” Mohamed hopefully has the math chops for MIT
By ann summers Too many anchor babies contributing to national educational advancement, packing heat sinks. Kid didn’t even bring a Glock to school. In Irving Texas, it’s make a clock, go to jail. An Arab-looking man of Syrian descent in … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Liberties, Education
Tagged Ahmed Mohamed, Bigots, Bomb, Clock, Prejudice, Texas
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The Triumph of the Nanny-State: Lock-down those classrooms or I’ll hit you with my heroic lunch-box
By ann summers “We wanted to nip the problem in the bud,” (1990) A Second Grader in Widefield, CO, was subjected to investigation and evaluation after he responded to an assignment as to what he saw in the clouds by … Continue reading
Losing it at the movies is now so much 19th Century Security Theatre
New literal forms of Security Theater make going to the movies so 19th Century where life is a panopti-diorama, old chum. By ann summers From the theatrical large-scale hand-cranked diorama giving urbanized music hall culture new life to the post-WWII … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Art, Capitalism, Celebrity, Civil Liberties, Constitutional Law, Democracy
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How posse comitatus or Commadus’s posse is already here
by ann summers Regardless of the degree of derangement, lone gunmen are always the decentralized form of terror, whether domestic manslaughter or random carnage. The problem despite some neologistic tendencies by the MIC to organize fear or procurement of weapons … Continue reading
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