CREATING THE SUB-HUMAN The point of the delinquency is to mark the accused as not human, not a decent person, not a person entitled to any rights, not a citizen, not one of us. It worked then, and it works now. Men guilty of walking while Black not normal. Greedy corrupt Wall Street bankers are normal. Cliven Bundy, who uses public land for his private wealth is normal. Fox News and right wing militias defend Bundy, but are no where to be seen in Ferguson, because none of those people are normal. . . . The people who get to decide what is normal are the rich and powerful. They use their control over government to establish the line between acceptable delinquency and unacceptable delinquency and illegalities. In 19th Century France, the rich and powerful wanted docile bodies to work themselves to death in factories, and the norms that were created aligned with those desires. Today, the people who decide the limits of the normal want docile bodies to work and to shut up about everything except sports and other television fare, except to support our unending wars and the 50,000 richest citizens in their desire to run the government for their benefit. - Masacchio
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 08:34:46 +0000
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