Quote: (12-03-2014 07:41 PM)Jevioso Wrote:
Fact is if you simply go on wikipedia and look at list of racial riots in the U.S. you'll find that things have been a lot worse. What makes it so big is the influence of the 24 hrs news cycle and social media. However, that's not what's scaring me. I'm more frightened of the police state implications, that people are just passively ignoring for the sake of wedge issues.
It seems that on the right and the left, we are lacking so much in intellectual foresight that we are being led to a police state, no matter where you look. The left want a police state for the sake of social justice, and the right wants a police state to prevent anarchy and a repeat of the 60's and 70's movement. No one argues the rights of individual citizens: which is the principle in which the bill of rights was based on. As a citizen, Garner was murdered, and the worst thing is, there's yet to be any evidence that Eric Garner was actually selling any of the cigarettes that led to him losing his life.
Completely agree with the first statement, everything is magnified x10000's times.
I agree couldn't of said it any better myself.