The Brown/Garner Killings are about a Larger State of Official Terror - by Harvey Wasserman

[kpete]

The Brown/Garner Killings are about a Larger State of Official Terror
byHarvey Wasserman



America’s founders established grand juries to protect citizens from frivolous prosecution. But today’s corporate state has twisted the system to protect killer police from public scrutiny, putting them above the law.
The ultimate message is clear: police can kill American citizens without cause and face no public trial. (Steven Rosenfeld lays out the details at Alternet.)

The current focus is on skin color. Thankfully, Americans throughout the US have risen up in protest, demanding social justice and an end to racism.

But the larger issue is a police apparatus now inflicting random terror in service of a corporate state that has mutated far beyond public control.

We are still being assaulted by a cynical 40-year drug war used to disenfranchise and violate the basic rights of millions of Americans with no real recourse.

In the name of that drug war, and the one on terror, police randomly confiscate (steal) billions in cash from citizens of all races, in direct violation of the Bill of Rights and any sense of a real legal system.......




http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/12/06/browngarner-killings-are-about-larger-state-official-terror

[Faryn Balyncd]

1. Nailed it. Thanks!