The following correspondence originally took place on my Facebook wall, upon my post, “War Criminals for ‘Peace’!“…
Rayn: War Criminals for Peace!
“It’s official, Obama takes a commanding lead in the countries bombed 7-4! [For]ward Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and soon Syria”
Steve L.: “You can’t say that civilization don’t advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.” ~ Will Rogers, The New York Times (23 December 1929)
As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared by the page, “Free Talk Live,” and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…
“It’s official, Obama takes a commanding lead in the countries bombed 7-4! [For]ward Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and soon Syria”
I originally posted the following information and commentary onto my Facebook wall…
Rev. Earl Baldwin Jr. is tased by police for the “crime” of praying over his dead son’s body
Cops Taser Grieving Man as He Prayed Over His Stepson’s Body:
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cops-taser-grieving-man-prayed-stepsons-body/
Surveillance camera footage recorded from the ER at UPMC Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh more than two years ago shows Rev. Earl Baldwin Jr., a local community activist known for speaking out against street violence, crying over the body of his dead 23-year-old stepson, Mileek Grissom.
“I needed to tell him his family was going to be okay,” Baldwin told WPXI this week. “I was going to do everything I could to make sure they were okay.”
As he sobbed above the boy however, surveillance camera footage shows that police officers in the emergency room started to wrestle Baldwin away from his step-son, with one cop eventually using his Taser stun-gun on the man.
My Commentary: “Sorry, sir, but the only capital ‘G’ you’ll be bowing before this time is spelled G-O-V-E-R-N-M-E-N-T.”
I originally posted the following information and commentary onto my Facebook wall…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asks for US legal assistance in order to avoid war-crime charges
Report: Netanyahu Asks US Lawmakers to Help Israel Avoid War-Crimes Charges:
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/08/07/report-netanyahu-asks-us-lawmakers-to-help-israel-avoid-war-crimes-charges/
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly urging U.S. lawmakers to protect his country from Palestinian claims that Israel engaged in “war crimes” during recent Gaza fighting that left nearly 1,900 Palestinians dead.
A top Israeli lawmaker told The New York Post that Netanyahu is urging U.S. lawmakers to “help Israel avoid war crimes charges.” The Israeli leader is reportedly appealing to American legislators to resist a seemingly global backlash against the Gaza fighting, saying that Israel took “extraordinary measures” to avoid civilian deaths in the recent month-long conflict.
According to Gaza officials, three-quarters of the 1,900 Palestinians killed in the fighting were civilians, although Israeli Defense Forces have stressed that Hamas has intentionally used civilians as human shields. Three Israeli civilians and 64 Israeli soldiers have also been killed in the Gaza conflict.
My Commentary: Well, considering the fact that the US government received assistance from the Israeli government when it was seeking out “legal justification” for US military drone-bombings of American citizens, this doesn’t surprise me, whatsoever!
US Cites Israeli Law to Justify Extrajudicial Execution of American Citizens Named on Secret “Kill List”:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/06/24/opinion/a-thin-rationale-for-drone-killings.html?referrer
Washington’s Blog does a great job explaining this…
U.S. Relies On Law from Israeli & British Governments to Justify Assassination of U.S. Citizens By Drone:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/06/u-s-relies-law-governments-dont-even-constitution-justify-assassination-u-s-citizens-drone.html
The following debate originally took place upon my Facebook wall, after I posted artwork being shared by the page, “Cop Block“…
Rayn:
“Cops: What my friends think I do, What sympathizers think I do, What kids think I do, What society thinks I do, What I want to do, What I actually do.”
Murilo M.: The problem is not the police itself, the problem is the people who join the police, there are lots of people out there who are corrupt and violent and evil, and some of these people join the police. It is not the police that is the problem, it is the bad people within the police who are the problem. There is no such thing as an evil institution, there are only evil people inside the institutions who corrupt the institutions.
Rayn: In the US, the problem is both the institution, *and* the individual, working together. To begin, as agents of the State, police officers are literally hired, trained and paid to initiate force against, and extort money from, peaceful citizens for victimless “crimes.” The “War on Drugs” serves as a perfect example of this, and truly stands out, right in plain view, as a form of State-instituted Cultural genocide – with daily kidnappings, beatings, murders, imprisonments, rapes, tortures, and forced medical procedures to prove it! To wear the police uniform is to wear the guilt of this ongoing atrocity against humanity. Yet, to even seek out the uniform while being fully aware that police have been, and currently are, engaging in a nationwide “War on Drugs” is also absolutely evidence of individual guilt, too.
Secondly, entire police departments have been exposed time and time again for enforcing rights-violating ticket quotas against citizens as a matter of top-down policy, as well as enacting racist, harassing, guilty-until-proven-innocent-based “stop and frisk” practices, also ordered from the top- down, against communities. Yet again, these are more institutional policies, and once again, they are being willfully enacted by individuals, as well…
Finally, if and when police do get caught engaging in outright criminal activity while on duty, most receive the full and immediate support of their entire department, along with undue time and opportunity to collaborate with each other and review their own evidence before making official statements. And, if they are even investigated after those efforts, it is by none other than more members of the police force, along with various other agents of the State… And, if all of these justice-obstructing activities and agents don’t keep them from the courthouse, then the judicial branch swoops in to dutifully shield these criminal cops from as much responsibility, accountability, and repercussions as possible, whenever possible!
