We don’t live in a Democracy….

Published: September 18, 2007, 11:58 pm

Tags: andrew meyer, barack obama, corporate media, jena 6, john kerry, lennox yearwood, politics, power games, race, university of florida, capitol hill police, firedoglake, police prosecutorial misconduct, police brutality, politics of fear, racial profiling, racism, star span

We live in a racist police state. Case in point, the fake furor over the tasered student at a John Kerry speech at the University of Florida. While I won’t defend the obnoxious conduct of this kid that provoked a physical confrontation, it didn’t ever merit him being tasered while Senator Kerry told them to leave him be. Acting like they didn’t know how to put the boy out the room without looking like a trailer park trained gestapo, doesn’t wash with me. Last week, a minister, the Rev. Lennox Yearwood, was attacked on Capitol Hill by the notoriously racist Capitol Hill Police force before the General Petraus hearings. Not a peep was heard even though the widely read Firedoglake blog posted the video. They broke the man’s damn leg. While waiting in a public line all morning to get into the hearing, he was barred at the door because of a lapel pin that read, “I love the people of Iraq.” The racist myopia that infects

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