"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Torture State's Domestic Face
?We've become at least somewhat inured to the spectacle of sadistic violence being inflicted on dusky-skinned foreign terrorist suspects, or the occasional...violent death of black Americans...as a result of paramilitary police raids [or]...accused criminals who have been 'lit up' by corrections officers in jails or brutalized in prison [or]...accounts of similar treatment inflicted on illegal aliens held in ICE detention facilities....Hearts unmoved by such cases tend to melt at the spectacle of a slender, helpless woman shrieking in fear and impotent rage as she is pinned down and violently disrobed by skinheads wearing the uniform of Ohio's Stark County Sheriff's Department.? Column by William Norman Grigg.
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