Pure Michigan

Ahhh Michigan--when we're not devising laws that require women to have rape insurance, or passing a right to work for less law that leave more of our citizens in poverty, or overriding the will of our voters and hammering another nail in the coffin that holds what was Democracy in our not no great anymore state by passing laws to still allow an Emergency Manager in Detroit, we're beating the shit out of our citizens for, uh, rolling a stop sign (even worse, it's only alleged):

Hey it isn't by accident that we were the only state in the 2010 census to lose population--we're working damn hard to make it happen.

Peace,
emaycee

Tin soldiers and Nixon's not coming

This is a photo from protests in Ferguson, Missouri, where Michael Brown, an unarmed black man, was shot to death by a police officer last week.  Yesterday the police in Ferguson announced they wouldn't be releasing the name of the officer who killed Michael Brown.  Today, the police in Ferguson asked/told/announced to their citizens that there would be a curfew tonight after dark.  As I type this, tear gas is flooding the streets of Ferguson, despite the peaceful nature of the protests.

Every now and again I come across a piece where the writer proclaims we are becoming more and more of a police state every day.  I usually scoff.

After the actions of the police department in Ferguson (and the lack of action by Missouri elected officials from the town itself on up to Missouri Governor Jay Nixon), those proclamations are having a little more credence.  How can anyone look at that picture and trust their local police would behave any differently?  What if it was your unarmed child shot to death?  Wouldn't you want answers and not an army trying to prevent your right to them?

Maybe we finally are on our own.

Peace,
emaycee

Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming...

I guess we can be thankful for small favors--at least they're only using pepper spray instead of  bullets from rifles.

It does, though, sum up exactly what the Occupy movement is standing up for--I mean the "police officers" attacking the seated, non-threatening students have all the compassion of those Wall Street jackoffs who got us into our current economic mess.

It's enough to make you sick.

Peace,
emaycee