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In reply to the discussion: If you take the Ferguson cops and DA side, don't ever complain about the NSA or Snowden ever again. [View all]20score
(4,769 posts)16. To be consistent and against injustice in all its forms,
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one would need to be against murder by officers of the law, be outraged at those charged with oversight of those officers - who almost never hold them to account - and be against government crimes on a larger scale. War, economic theft in third world countries, and hunger of millions in a rich country, plus the abuses inherent in a massive spy apparatus turned on its own citizens.
That said, anyone who is okay with murder and abuse, happening daily in our streets by those trusted to 'serve and protect' sicken me. No matter what their label.
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If you take the Ferguson cops and DA side, don't ever complain about the NSA or Snowden ever again. [View all]
Yavin4
Nov 2014
OP
They have been making it all about them. And I was glad to see some folks call them out on their
Number23
Nov 2014
#50
To my mind the John Crawford killing was even more egregious than the Brown killing
Fumesucker
Nov 2014
#7
They're only "jack-booted government thugs" when they're mean to white people n/t
arcane1
Nov 2014
#8
You will know the corporate Third Way by their refusal to demand real change here.
woo me with science
Nov 2014
#11
There is a whole bunch of shit that I care about that doesn't personally effect me
JonLP24
Nov 2014
#37
This is why many of us people of color here on DU go after others who slam Obama over NSA shit
Liberal_Stalwart71
Nov 2014
#27
Oh, they comment all right. But only so far as they can blame the Third Way/Obama/Holder etc.
Number23
Nov 2014
#53
Fair enough though it seems to me that at least here that it is members of the status quo caucus
TheKentuckian
Nov 2014
#42