Today, the police are the street enforcers for the corporate dictatorship. We need a society where the people, not the corporations, are in charge.
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1970 Kent State Massacre in Albuquerque, NM by the United States National Guard as a result of escalated anti-Vietnam war protests (picture above) ends with 67 shots fired by National Guard soldiers, multiple students wounded, & 4 dead. The reason for the shooting is still “unclear.” 2014 James Boyd, 38 year old mentally ill homeless man shot by two officers as he was turning to walk away from them: once with a rifle, then with a beanbag shotgun. He died, but not before surgeons amputated an arm, removed part of his lung and another part of his spleen just trying to save his life.
Time does not heal all wounds.
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The police murder of James Boyd is a wakeup call for the American people. As the economy automates and uses less human labor, the government is abandoning its responsibility to meet the needs of its people. Many become homeless; but, instead of helping them, the system isolates, scapegoats, and attacks them. Police murder is the most violent and vicious form of that scapegoating. The homeless all across the country are in imminent danger from the escalating police state. When we defend them, and other victims of police violence, we defend ourselves. We must confront each and every attack with what liberty we have left, and we must recognize that we are in a fight for a new society. Today, the police are the street enforcers for the corporate dictatorship. We need a society where the people, not the corporations, are in charge. Contact us to order People’s Tribunes to distribute.
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I’m seeing the “Peoples Tribune” beginning to pop up in more articles ….
Not to be rude but if I was interested in what they have to say, I’ll go directly to their site, which I have done.
This is why we need the Second amendment. Police today are becoming what the Redcoats were over 200 years ago: an occupying army that sees “civilians” as the enemy. Strip them of all full-auto military weapons, armored vehicles, Nazi helmets and facemasks.