I don't know anything about the Koch Brothers. you'd have to enlighten me.
Prisoner in van said Freddie Gray was ‘trying to injure himself,’ document says
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Breaking: Baltimore to charge cops with homicide in Freddie Gray death
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I completely agree with your comments. My remark was actually just an observation of mine that most people don't have any interaction with the criminal justice system regardless of their political persuasion. Consequently, they aren't motivated to do much about problems within the system even when they hear about them on the news. Whereas, on the other hand, those that get caught up in the system are often people of meager financial means and little access to good legal representation. These folks are relatively powerless to bring about justice system reforms. Their only avenue is public protest, and we have seem how that easily becomes co-opted by criminal elements. I believe that is why we don't see the obvious defects in the justice system being corrected, i.e., the ones who have the money and influence to bring about reform are not very interested in doing it because they are aren't likely to have any dealings with the criminal justice system. It's pretty obvious to all of us that when you have cops and courts supported by fines and confiscated assets, you have a horrible conflict of interest on your hands. A friend recently was ticketed for a burned out license plate bulb. $125!!!!!
The criminal justice system is a 1 Trillion dollar industry. Lawyers, politicians, judges, prison corporations, jail guards, police, equipment manufacturers. Simplifying laws puts all these schelps out of work. You think these overpaid bureaucrats want to petition themselves out of a job to lighten the legal burden on all of us???! FUCK NO.
It's the same thing with the vast industry built around tax compliance (>700 Billion dollars a year). Why simplify the 77,000 page tax code when 3% of the economy generates its living from assisting compliance with that code?!?!? Why destroy their own livelihood?!?!
Christ hated the Pharisees - legalistic, stonehearted bureaucrats that bury people in the LAW. That's exactly what our system has become. It's called regulating industries into existence (at the expense of the taxpayer) so the upper caste is guaranteed work. This whole system is built and supported by stupid old fucks. No different then creating a bunch of tolls on the road...every 100 yards there's another toll down the road for another 'gatekeeper' to tax us.... When I see Lindsey Graham, I see the system. John McCain, another stupid old fuck. Hillary and Obama, same shit. The SYSTEM has a life of its own. Too much money at the trough for the status quo and any other Fortune 500 that can buy a new spot at that trough. The system has to change, and you stupid old fucks along with it, or we're going down like the Titantic.
It's the same thing with the vast industry built around tax compliance (>700 Billion dollars a year). Why simplify the 77,000 page tax code when 3% of the economy generates its living from assisting compliance with that code?!?!? Why destroy their own livelihood?!?!
Christ hated the Pharisees - legalistic, stonehearted bureaucrats that bury people in the LAW. That's exactly what our system has become. It's called regulating industries into existence (at the expense of the taxpayer) so the upper caste is guaranteed work. This whole system is built and supported by stupid old fucks. No different then creating a bunch of tolls on the road...every 100 yards there's another toll down the road for another 'gatekeeper' to tax us.... When I see Lindsey Graham, I see the system. John McCain, another stupid old fuck. Hillary and Obama, same shit. The SYSTEM has a life of its own. Too much money at the trough for the status quo and any other Fortune 500 that can buy a new spot at that trough. The system has to change, and you stupid old fucks along with it, or we're going down like the Titantic.
Christ did not hate anyone if you ever read the bible even once. In fact he preached loving thy enemies. While I agree with you in most part I am of the steadfast conviction that responding in kind will never solve any problems. That is the precise reason Greece is still in the Eurozone and has not been kicked out despite their years of cheating and stealing from everyone around them. The price paid to support minorities that live under the poverty line is not a cost any country is unable to bear. The real black hole is the system you described that swallows up billions to protect middle men that are actually entirely useless and unproductive to society.
Christ did hate, indict and rebuke the Pharisees and other zealous practitioners of the law, including the money changers. The notion that Christ was some lap dog and there is no hell (because God loves us too much) is wishful thinking. While I agree with some of the rest, removing accountability from the equation - either with North American blacks (the eternal "victims"), on the national level (Greece), or the individual - is a sure fire way to destruction and death. Without personal responsibility nothing gets done or fixed. You're completely wrong on that. It's called tough love. Greece can blow up, just like it has a million times before, along with all the other countries that leverage themselves to the hilt. This has been done a million times before, because people are stupid and don't take accountability for their actions....
Btw, Greece has been carried along by Germany and France because it's their banks who stand to lose tens of billions should Greece exit or be forced to exit the EURO. Further, the EU is Germanys political baby - a stealth takeover of Europe by Franco-Germany through a fiscal union and political union. Kicking out the periphery lessens their empire, which together, is why Greece has been doted on for so long. Don't kid yourself....the Germans 'love' Greece....LOL Ya, as a foot stool...
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Seriously? They were pretty much are the creators of the new Libertarianism. You know, the kind for corporations. The kind that says safety and enviro regulations are bad, and science should be denied when it hurts profits.
I mean, the way you deny AGW, they would like you very much and might even employ you. Indirectly of course. The way they employ Dr Soon and that fraud Salby and those denier website creators.
You should really learn about them as they are having a big influence in US politics.
Members of the Koch family have given to conservative and libertarian policy and advocacy groups in the United States,[13] including think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute, and more recently Americans for Prosperity.[14]
Americans for Prosperity, founded by David Koch, is one of the main nonprofit groups assisting the Tea Party movement, according to Kenneth Vogel of Politico. In 2010 Melissa Cohlmia, a Koch spokeswoman, distanced the Kochs from the tea parties andFreedomWorks saying that "no funding has been provided by Koch companies, the Koch foundations, Charles Koch or David Koch specifically to support the tea parties."[15]
According to the Koch Family Foundations and Philanthropy website, "the foundations and the individual giving of Koch family members" have financially supported organizations "fostering entrepreneurship, education, human services, at-risk youth, arts and culture, and medical research."[16]
The Koch brothers have played an active role in opposing climate change legislation. According to the environmentalist group Greenpeace, organizations that the Koch brothers help fund such as Americans for Prosperity, the Heritage Foundation, the Cato institute, and the Manhattan Institute have been active in questioning global warming.[17] Through Americans for Prosperity, the Koch brothers influenced more than 400 members of Congress to sign a pledge to vote against climate change legislation that does not include equivalent tax cuts.[18][19][20][21]
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Futurecurrents is too busy bowing and praying to his god Al Gore.
What is the difference between Jesus and Republicans?
Jesus loved prostitutes AND tax collectors.
Oh, stop with the hyperbole. Just because you don't like my commentary doesn't mean it doesn't add value.