Nov
10
Privitization for profit never produces quality results. Whether it be the uncaring juvenile corrections facilities, the mass production of assault rifles, or the occupation force of democracy that is the police force, any organization run and funded by greed and greedy people is destined to cause more suffering than it relieves. All around the world we see that people are motivated by one of three things; money or materials, the desire to take care of oneself and the desire to take care of others, or another person. Those motivated by money will always follow the course of action that produces more of it, regardless of that action’s effect on themselves and those around them. Those motivated by personal gain will do whatever it takes to benefit themselves, be it through accumulation of money, an attractive partner, material objects or even authority over others. Those who are motivated by the desire to help others will often neglect themselves, forsake material possesions and give away money in order to help another who has less or nothing at all. It is my belief that only those who have no desire to build up wealth be put in charge of what is currently run by industries, organizations, and boards of chairmen (who each have have more money than you and I combined, I am sure).
Sep
29
Police Brutality Defined
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Police brutality is the use of excessive force, including physical abuse, but not limited to verbal attacks and attempts of psychological and physical intimidation. There are many other kinds of protector violations; false arrest, racial profiling, political repression (through the media and other information sources ie the education system), survailance abuse (The Patriot Act), sexual abuse, no warrant violations, shootings (Timothy Stansbury), and police corruption.
There are many factors that cause police brutaliy. Pressure to conform to a comadre mindset in which the “Blue Code of Silence” requires cops to protect cops, strict and oppresive bosses with rigid heirarchal chains of command, and deficiencies in internal affairs to name a few, but these only scratch the surface. On the flip side, in places where officers are shot or assualted, police brutality soon follows.
In the united States the District Attorny in responsible for punishing bad cops, but often times they ar accused of being biased and overlooking many serious offenses, harshly punishing those who act out of genuine concern for the public and slapping the wrist of dirty officers. Only in the 1990’s was serious attention focused on the problem.
Copwatch and Amnesty International utilize civilian review boards in order to provide a more balanced disciplinary system for cops in question. They opperate on the bases that the government officals whoa re paid by the public to serve the public should not be feared by the people, but should instead fear the people, for they put the bread on their table and cloth their children.
Sep
8
This film, simple and low tech by todays standards, and found online on a website called youtube.com ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGxBizeiL3s ) where people share low quality videos, manages to touch everyone who sees it, and for many reasons. An example of the kind of traffic this video recieves on youtube.com is seen in the comments directly under the video which show a new comment every several minutes for the last several days, and now more than 400,000 people have watched this film!
This film incorporates traditional native mysticism coupled with an unhappy childs perspective on our modern world where everything and everyone is synthetic and disconnected from the sharp realities that make up life’s highs and lows. The child expresses his disgust with the world by litterally cutting ties with his family and the world, running off to live in the wild in a scene reminiscent of “Lord of the Flies”, eventually gaining followers who believe in his cause and take up his wild lifestyle, sacrificing their material possesions in the fires of rebellion. Everyone young boy remembers looking outside and wondering if they have what it takes to live in the wild, strong and free from all domesticated rules and nicities. And every young person today faces an oppresive domestication in the form of prescription sedatives that curb the naturally rebellious instinct, that natural tendancy to question authority and the structure that be, and in the form of cookie cutter jobs and consumerism brainwashing that convinces outherwise productive young people that they “need” this or that when in reality they are weakening themselves.
Specific topics the film includes are; the prescription pills lazy parents feed naturally activce and rambunctious children in order to “fix” their behavior, the alchoholic parent’s attitude in child care, the “microwave generation” mentality, the “fast food” craze, the “ugly little dog” AKA Paris Hilton puppy fetish, and the natural human instict to react towards oppresion in a violent and rebellious manner time and time again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGxBizeiL3s