Scroll down and youll find a link to a story on freethought project, about an Arkansas family raided by cops, who separated parents from children, charging the former for dosing the kids with MMS, which is pure toxic quackery, thoroughly debunked (thnx Emily Conforti). Ive sent a message to the site informing the owners that, if they dont take steps to fact check their posts, and to rectify the misinformation in this one, Ill spread the word about it. My series of shares under the meme, What IS a police state, exactly, is intended to highlight abuse of police authority in cases where there are real issues of training, oversight or out and out criminality. I do it as much to support the majority of police who are good people doing a proper job, as to blow the whistle on miscreants. Conscientious public employees like police, just as does the private citizen, deserve protection from the jerks and criminals among them. Because the police are public employees, they are governed by public policy like the rest of us. More often than not, the real problems that properly deserve sourcing to a police state mentality can in fact be traced to those who write and adopt the policies. Stupid people produce stupid policies, and a woefully large number of stupid, unnecessary policies are in place. The costs to society are beyond calculation, and the trend appears to be headed in the wrong direction. Anti-science, right-wing authoritarianism is growing, driven in part by the dark money dumped into US politics by people and corporations with a vested interest in keeping the public in the dark about how they get rich off public ignorance. Its unacceptable, and must be stopped.
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 21:02:12 +0000