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GliderGuider

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2. Police have always been the enforcers for the ruling class.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Thu Nov 27, 2014, 02:31 PM

Nov 2014

Last edited Thu Nov 27, 2014, 03:02 PM - Edit history (1)

That's why property rights are so highly protected, and civil rights ignored.

The class war goes back a long way: back to the birth of property rights around the time humans developed agriculture, 10,000 years ago. It's how we're wired.

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ATU ON THE FERGUSON GRAND JURY DECISION REGARDING THE SHOOTING OF MICHAEL BROWN [View all] Omaha Steve Nov 2014 OP

BOOM! Spot on. JaneyVee Nov 2014 #1

I support that. Spot on. The Oligarch Leaders want to turn us against each other. nm rhett o rick Nov 2014 #9

Police have always been the enforcers for the ruling class. GliderGuider Nov 2014 #2

while I agree, this 'incident' heaven05 Nov 2014 #3

The unfortunate truth is that race & class are heavily confounded in America Jackpine Radical Nov 2014 #10

Per your beginning line, true heaven05 Nov 2014 #15

Precisely. nt Live and Learn Nov 2014 #4

wilson shot Brown in cold blood samsingh Nov 2014 #5

The rich are in control in Ferguson because of elections being won by them...how did that occur? Fred Sanders Nov 2014 #7

It's not one rabid individual - TBF Nov 2014 #8

Not according to the evidence. maced666 Nov 2014 #14

Really? Lochloosa Nov 2014 #16

Good way to put it, this is the result of purposeful media and political division; the system built this. Fred Sanders Nov 2014 #6

Race & Class baby. Connecting these dots is what got MLK Jr. assassinated IMHO 99th_Monkey Nov 2014 #11

I so wish that I could disagree. But I see this around me every day. JDPriestly Nov 2014 #12

+1000. Someone with a backbone and a brain. What a refreshing combination. n/t jtuck004 Nov 2014 #13

yes, this gentleman cuts right to the core. BlancheSplanchnik Nov 2014 #17

Even with that wider context, it's still overwhelmingly a racial issue. True Blue Door Nov 2014 #18