Economic Meltdown (seconda parte)

[kandrathe]

Granted, but these are not all that exceptional. Google "Arrested Sidewalk Chalk". I'm afraid that like an iceberg, the only unjust arrests we get to glimpse are the few that poke into the 24 hour news cycle. The injustice in the system only begins in the arbitrariness of arrest, it extends into the arbitrariness of investigation, prosecution and conviction. You see the real injustice applied when you begin to analyze the racial and socioeconomic demographics. I don't believe we want a system where when the State is against you, you invariably end up incarcerated.

If you want the story of the state against its citizens, the story you want is the drug war. That's what puts otherwise harmless (and usually black or hispanic) people in jail. The number of people imprisoned, or even arrested, for these other trivial things like eating fries and writing with chalk is pretty small, although obviously higher anywhere they use the "broken windows" theory of policing. Stupid rules, stupid results.

-Jester

Yes.

But, look at what the TSA is doing. Arresting people for filming their friends going through the screening process. Treating everyone as a criminal before he fact, and putting them through very privacy intrusive screening procedures. If you protest the procedure in any way, you are often arrested, or at least denied your flight, escorted out of the airport terminal and put on that airlines black list.

Look at how protesters are treated at political events.

Extraordinary renditions of US citizens...

Intelligence gathering, domestic spying and wiretaps... Einstein 3...