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Rex

(65,616 posts)
4. Actually if you want to stop it all, enforce the laws equally.
Sun Dec 28, 2014, 05:18 PM
Dec 2014

One of the reasons this country is so fucked up, is that we've let warmongers and billionaire criminals walk away as if they did nothing wrong. We pretend people that commit atrocities are patriots. We watch a man get choked to death on video and then watch the court systems do nothing about it.

If you don't apply the law equally, you might be all right in the beginning of the travisty. Also, if you make draconian laws and scare people after 9/11 into giving up their rights, don't expect them to believe you on much of anything you do. Don't expect them to not pass that along to their children and their grand children.

Simple. SHOW that America is all about equality under the law...or in time (maybe decades) the citizenry will revolt against you in some way or manner. Humans do not have an endless well of despair that they can live off of. There is always a tipping point.

History is constantly being proven to be a process of repeating the same mistakes over and over in a society until nobody is left to commit a mistake.

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