Reply #6: blackmail....

[pretzel4gore]

it's been blackmail from before regan's time. the blackmail was premised on the idea that if we want to improve the lot of the poor/marginalized, the criminal element would be allowed to run amok (damn that miranda!)....every guideline became a limitation-to deny the cops the right to strip search young kids on the street meant psychothugs got to escape arrest conviction cuz their 'rights' were violated in some nudgewink way.....that went on to such things as bussing (great way to turn disinterested citizens into radical neocon rightwingers) and so on. A pattern emerged long ago that a system that could be made better could also be made much worse, using the pretense of making it better....geeb (brother of that 'john ellis bush' guy, aka 'jeb' down in florida) is the natural result; the stock market as a tool for rightwing supremacy and national security as the key to fort knox (??????)...'a fool and his money are easily parted' as the saintly Che (Guevera) once said!