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The Authoritarianism Of The American Police State

February 3, 2015 By Matt Peppe Leave a Comment

Two days before Christmas, a “thug” launched an “unprovoked attack” on a female MTA employee on a Bronx subway platform, “choking her” and causing injuries, according to the Daily News. The “hulking brute” then fled the scene, “grinning as he made his may through the turnstile.”

The newspaper’s description conjures images of a fanatical psychopath, aggressively assaulting an innocent victim and showing a twisted pleasure in his deranged actions while escaping. Several days later the perpetrator was located, but he was not arrested. On Friday, more than a month later, police announced he will face only misdemeanor charges.

The perpetrator was allegedly discovered when he saw video of himself on the news and turned himself in, police said. Incidentally the man, 37-year-old Mirjan Lolja, is himself an NYPD policeman.

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Media & Culture, National News Tagged With: #BlackLivesMatter, Ben Popper, Black Lives Matter, CounterPunch, Eric Garner, Facebook, Ferguson, history, I can't breathe, Jelani Henry, Joseph Lhota, Mike Brown, Mirjan Lolja, MTA, New York, New York City, New York Daily News, New York Police Department, New York Times, NYPD, police, police accountability, police brutality, police state, prison, prison reform, prisons, propaganda, racism, Raven Rakia, Rikers Island, Sam Mitrani, social media, Tamir Rice, The Verge, Truthout, William Glaberson

2015 Predictions: I Can’t Breathe … Can You?

January 1, 2015 By David Seaton Leave a Comment

Eric Garner, a harmless man, who was strangled to death by a brutal police officer, has given me a simple answer to a question that other Americans have often asked me over the years, “why do you live abroad?”

At the heart of everything is the ongoing collapse of the middle class in the most highly developed countries. This is something that is destabilizing precisely those countries whose role has always been to stabilize the rest. That is the multiplier of all the other instabilities.

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Broken Countries Policing: American Terrorism & Racist Violence

December 30, 2014 By Matt Peppe 1 Comment

Despite being disproven as a strategy for reducing crime, the broken windows policing theory is still used in New York and throughout in the United States to crack down on disorder and nonviolent crime. To think that harsh enforcement of this type of “crime” would prevent serious crime like homicide and assault is patently absurd on its face. If you want to rid society of the most serious crimes, you should be enforcing the most serious crimes, like aggressive war.

Call it broken countries policing.

In the United States in 2014, you may be arrested for selling loose cigarettes, jumping turnstiles, dancing on the subways, and having small amounts of marijuana, but not for assassination, torture, anal rape, illegal surveillance, or invading, occupying and bombing sovereign countries.

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