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September 27, 2007

The Noose is Tightening

Today brings us more disturbing examples of abuse of authority. In this video you see a City Councilman get thrown to the ground and beaten with a fist by a cop after he had the temerity to unleash a stream of profanities at a Council meeting for being cut short in his testimony. Not only do we hear a bystander shout approvingly, “Get him. Get him for my dad,” but we are then treated to what you would swear is a B-movie script. The Councilman accuses the cop of abuse, to which the offending cop, after having beaten the Councilman on the back of the head several times, replies, “Who hit you Jack? Did you trip and fall?” And you just know that without the video tape, the subsequent felony charges against the Councilman of battering the cop would not have been dropped. Nods to NW Republican for bringing this to our attention.

Next, we have the unfolding saga of Blackwater and its “corporate culture” of aggression and excessive violence creating all sorts of trouble for us in Iraq. In fact, its security personnel are shooting up Iraqis at more than twice the rate of other American security contractors. Apparently, this is fine with the Bush Administration.

The UK Economist takes an interesting look at the creeping danger that modern technology and the War on Terror pose to civil liberties, something which is as applicable in America as it is in the UK. The noose is tightening on all of us. Hart Williams also writes about this today.

How fitting that just as we are failing to prevent the unfair treatment being given to the Jena 6 following threats of lynching, the lynchers are coming for us all.

Posted by Becky at September 27, 2007 11:04 AM