by repulsewarrior » Sun Jun 07, 2020 9:23 pm
...on iHeart radio, i listen to Fox news every night.
The protest are a sub-text, so much energy is put into the rioting and its consequences, as "news", which are horrible. By contrast the thousands and thousands who are being ignored because peaceful demonstration is not as stimulating, to the(se) broadcast viewers. I hate to tell you this but the narrative is a lie. Fake news is when the facts are their, hidden in plain sight, a sound bite less than two seconds, what that President agrees with, the Right to peaceful protest, another nine minute story on what the President is against.
Today i watched Barr defend himself, and the President, on Monday was it, when he walked grandly from the White House to a Church; by pure coincidence he says, as though with peaceful streets Trump would have taken the same walk.
...what message does it send, the sad expectation that we will deny what we see and hear, live in this circumstance. Nothing is planned, and nothing is reasoned; reactionary and populist in nature, this is what we have come to expect.
No President of the United States has invaded so many homes (on their "TVs") around the world, and minds, with such daily attacks and violence. Force, the very thing that makes us weak if we fight among each other, is there, in our faces every day; such is Trump, fighting to keep things the way they are, when America, and the world, is yearning to do better, he fears change itself.
...it would be nice if i was not afraid of the Police, one bad experience is enough to know what that means, but because of my colour and my hair, you may say i was ruggedly handsome when i was younger, fitting the profile of a "nigger", as the Swiss say, not coloured (as in brown) or schwartz (as in Black), easy to profile as not one of "them". In the sixties, just in High School guns were drawn on me, in the seventies more than once a gun was pointed at me, and in the eighties i had the great satisfaction of having a record, not criminal, but to allow me free access to the Prime Minister, and other political figures, in the performance of my duties as a photographer. What satisfaction, once again to be held at gunpoint, a drug bust gone wrong, when the undercover cops apologised to me in front of about fifty people who had gathered in the store where i was literally jumped by them from behind (with a choke hold), originally.
...i don't say that all Police men should not carry guns, i say that not all should carry guns; guns need a reason, and they are to be earned based on merit if they are to be respected for what they are. No difference to Flloyd i suppose because he was not shot, but given the choices these Policemen took it was the arbitrary lethality (carrying guns, as a final weapon) that makes these actions completely unacceptable. Who cares who Flloyd is; did i spell his name right?
...it is as i said, a Police Force worthily working for respect from the community they serve, needs to get on the streets, to be known individually, and to know, individually the members of each household, and store.
It is not what good Policework needs, guns. The notebook is a more essential tool.