While I’ve always been against the militarization of U.S. police forces, and in favor of more transparency, accountability and civilian oversight, I have to confess that I’ve never taken calls to “defund the police” very seriously. When, in the past, I’ve heard people say that we should abolish the police, I’ve thought that they were […]
Tag Archives: 9/11
It’s not as catchy of a slogan, but “Let’s Incentivize Communities to Start Creatively Shrinking Police Forces, Collecting Data on What Works and What Doesn’t, and Go from There”
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged #8toabolition, #cut50, #DefundThePolice, 2020, Alicia Garza, authoritarianism, black lives matter, Clementine, crime, David Ware, defund the police, Donald Trump, Douglas Schoen, George Floyd, home invasion, LAPD, law and order, Minneapolis, NYPD, police violence, prison industrial complex, prison reform, racism, recidivism, Shaka Senghor, the militarization of the police, Tucker Carlson, Ypsilanti police department 85 Comments
“Before Obama came along, we didn’t have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attacks” inside the US, declares Trump supporter Rudy Giuliani
Not only is Obama “the founder of ISIS“, but, according to Rudy Giuliani, who was the Mayor of New York City when the 9/11 attacks took place in 2001, no terrorists had successfully struck the United States until Obama took office in 2008. Here’s the video. Rudy Giuliani: In 8 years before Pres. Obama "we […]
Posted in History, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 9/11 Truth, Donald Trump, ISIS, Ivanka Trump, lies, Obama, rewriting history, Rudy Giuliani, terrorism, Truthers, Vladimir Putin 23 Comments
Will Potter on the existence of secret prisons in America
On episode 26 of the Saturday Six Pack, I spoke at length with journalist Will Potter, formerly of the Chicago Tribune, about his work to bring the criminalization of free speech to light in post-9/11 America. Well, as you may recall, Potter, who is now a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, mentioned during […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized Also tagged Eco-terrorism, prison, prison industrial complex, prison reform, prisoner rights, secret prisons, TED, TED conference, terrorism, Will Potter 1 Comment