President Obama - We don't live in isolation. We live in a
society, a government of and by and for the people. We are responsible
for each other. You know, the right to worship freely and faithfully,
that right was denied to Sikhs in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. The right to
assemble peaceably, that right was denied shoppers in Clackamas, Oregon
and moviegoers in Aurora, Colorado. That most fundamental set of rights -
to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness - fundamental rights
that were denied to college students at Virginia Tech and high school
students at Columbine and elementary school students in Newtown, and
kids on street corners in Chicago on too frequent a basis to tolerate,
and all the families who've never imagined that they'd lose a loved one
to a bullet, those rights are at stake. We're responsible. http://abcn.ws/ZZ1UOr
AND FOR INNOCENT, BLACK, UNARMED PEOPLE KILLED UNDER THE COLOR OF LAW, IT IS TIME TO BE RESPONSIBLE, ACCOUNTABLE, AND JUST - ONE HUNDRED TWENTY EXTRAJUDICIAL DEATHS BETWEEN JANUARY AND JUNE 2012. SEE THE WRONGFUL DEATH OF LARRY NEAL WEBSITE http://WrongfulDeathOfLarryNeal.com
Excerpt from Gadfly Online: Yet in the midst of widespread finger pointing (not even violent movies, crime dramas and violent video games have been spared) and calls for reform of the mental health care system and gun control, not a word has been said about the greatest perpetrator of violence in American society and around the world—the U.S. government.
Violence has become our government’s calling card, starting at the top and trickling down, from President Obama’s “kill list,” which relies on drones to target insurgents, to the more than 80,000 SWAT team raids carried out every year on unsuspecting Americans by heavily armed, black-garbed commandos and the increasingly rapid militarization of local police forces across the country. We even export violence worldwide, with one of this country’s most profitable exports being weapons.
Thus, any serious discussion about minimizing the violence in our society needs to start with the government and its tendency to use violence as a means to an end, whether in matters of foreign policy or domestically . . . Continue to read at http://www.gadflyonline.com/home/index.php/government-violence-the-missing-link-in-the-gun-control-debate/
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President Obama - We don't live in isolation. We live in a society, a government of and by and for the people. We are responsible for each other. You know, the right to worship freely and faithfully, that right was denied to Sikhs in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. The right to assemble peaceably, that right was denied shoppers in Clackamas, Oregon and moviegoers in Aurora, Colorado. That most fundamental set of rights - to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness - fundamental rights that were denied to college students at Virginia Tech and high school students at Columbine and elementary school students in Newtown, and kids on street corners in Chicago on too frequent a basis to tolerate, and all the families who've never imagined that they'd lose a loved one to a bullet, those rights are at stake. We're responsible. http://abcn.ws/ZZ1UOr
AND FOR INNOCENT, BLACK, UNARMED PEOPLE KILLED UNDER THE COLOR OF LAW, IT IS TIME TO BE RESPONSIBLE, ACCOUNTABLE, AND JUST - ONE HUNDRED TWENTY EXTRAJUDICIAL DEATHS BETWEEN JANUARY AND JUNE 2012. SEE THE WRONGFUL DEATH OF LARRY NEAL WEBSITE http://WrongfulDeathOfLarryNeal.com
AND FOR INNOCENT, BLACK, UNARMED PEOPLE KILLED UNDER THE COLOR OF LAW, IT IS TIME TO BE RESPONSIBLE, ACCOUNTABLE, AND JUST - ONE HUNDRED TWENTY EXTRAJUDICIAL DEATHS BETWEEN JANUARY AND JUNE 2012. SEE THE WRONGFUL DEATH OF LARRY NEAL WEBSITE http://WrongfulDeathOfLarryNeal.com
Excerpt from Gadfly Online: Yet in the midst of widespread finger pointing (not even violent movies, crime dramas and violent video games have been spared) and calls for reform of the mental health care system and gun control, not a word has been said about the greatest perpetrator of violence in American society and around the world—the U.S. government.
Violence has become our government’s calling card, starting at the top and trickling down, from President Obama’s “kill list,” which relies on drones to target insurgents, to the more than 80,000 SWAT team raids carried out every year on unsuspecting Americans by heavily armed, black-garbed commandos and the increasingly rapid militarization of local police forces across the country. We even export violence worldwide, with one of this country’s most profitable exports being weapons.
Thus, any serious discussion about minimizing the violence in our society needs to start with the government and its tendency to use violence as a means to an end, whether in matters of foreign policy or domestically . . . Continue to read at http://www.gadflyonline.com/home/index.php/government-violence-the-missing-link-in-the-gun-control-debate/
President Obama - We don't live in isolation. We live in a society, a government of and by and for the people. We are responsible for each other. You know, the right to worship freely and faithfully, that right was denied to Sikhs in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. The right to assemble peaceably, that right was denied shoppers in Clackamas, Oregon and moviegoers in Aurora, Colorado. That most fundamental set of rights - to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness - fundamental rights that were denied to college students at Virginia Tech and high school students at Columbine and elementary school students in Newtown, and kids on street corners in Chicago on too frequent a basis to tolerate, and all the families who've never imagined that they'd lose a loved one to a bullet, those rights are at stake. We're responsible. http://abcn.ws/ZZ1UOr
AND FOR INNOCENT, BLACK, UNARMED PEOPLE KILLED UNDER THE COLOR OF LAW, IT IS TIME TO BE RESPONSIBLE, ACCOUNTABLE, AND JUST - ONE HUNDRED TWENTY EXTRAJUDICIAL DEATHS BETWEEN JANUARY AND JUNE 2012. SEE THE WRONGFUL DEATH OF LARRY NEAL WEBSITE http://WrongfulDeathOfLarryNeal.com
