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[theweaselking]

The US government deliberately murdering their own citizens is not new.

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[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

It's ok when there's a war on. You know, the war on booze, the war on global communism, the war on drugs, the war on terror, the war on whatever's next.

[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

The war on whistle blowers. It's discouraging when our not very liberal president has the power to label anyone a terrorist and have them killed. Conservative forces have been wrecking our democracy, and from the looks of it damaging Canada's as well Under the guise of "choice", our public schools have been sucker punched. Don't get me started on the re-segregation of minorities. Any country that devalues education gets what it deserves.

The newest attacks are on our voting laws, the GOP has been trying to dismantle civil rights ever since Johnson rammed them through Congress, and the current Supreme Court is destroying voter protections for those uppity minorities. If there's any good news, it's that those are 5-4 decisions, which could theoretically be reviewed again by a court with one fewer ideologue..

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

"I never heard that the government poisoned people during Prohibition, did you?"

So this is one of those things that I think everyone knows but is in fact the opposite?

[falconwarrior.livejournal.com]

"I did, however, remember the U.S. government's controversial decision in the 1970s to spray Mexican marijuana fields with Paraquat, an herbicide. Its use was primarily intended to destroy crops, but government officials also insisted that awareness of the toxin would deter marijuana smokers. They echoed the official position of the 1920s—if some citizens ended up poisoned, well, they'd brought it upon themselves."

"Trial by jury of peers? No cruel and unusual punishment? NAH, FUCK THAT" - US Govt, apparently