progressive politics and regressive entertainment. like peanut and butter.
February 20, 2012 Leave a comment
Chris Hawley reports that the New York Police Department monitored Muslim students to a much greater extent than previously reported, which comes as a great surprise to everyone who mistakenly thinks that an unsupervised police force will somehow magically behave itself and not abuse its power.
The key takeaway in the article?
January 6, 2012 2 Comments
Lest we let the traditional media convince us that the Occupy Movement is dead and gone, In These Times notices how most of us are quite content to allow the police force to be used in order to quiet dissent. I can’t reconcile the supposed distaste that the public has for government with our willingness to let that government drag people away for expressing their opinions in public.
