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Filmmaker Michael Moore on Thursday called for the release of all blacks jailed on drug sentences to be released, and for the police to be disarmed.
Heres my demand: I want every African-American currently incarcerated for drug crimes or non-violent offenses released from prison today, Moore tweeted.
Next demand: Disarm the police, he continued.
Moores tweets were in response to the rioting in Baltimore earlier this week, which was triggered by the death in police custody of a 25-year-old black man.
We have ¼ billion 2nd Amendment guns in our homes 4 protection, Moore wrote. Well survive til the right cops r hired.
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NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)or can they just rot? As for disarming police, he can go out on patrol unarmed if he wants. See how long his privileged ass lasts.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)the message of how ridiculous the gun loving NRA types are about their precious firearms protecting them - they could never stomach a society with disarmed police, mainly because of their paranoia of the same black youth.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)before he disarms the police.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Michael Moore @MMFlint · 14h 14 hours ago
Here's my demand: I want every African-American currently incarcerated for drug "crimes" or nonviolent offenses released from prison today.
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And the rest who r imprisoned- I dont believe 50% of them did what they're accused of. Lies. Greed. A modern day slave system. Poor whites 2
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Michael Moore @MMFlint · 15h 15 hours ago
Next demand: Disarm the police. We have a 1/4 billion 2nd amendment guns in our homes 4 protection. We'll survive til the right cops r hired
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Michael Moore @MMFlint · 14h 14 hours ago
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Him having armed bodyguards and all.
As for drug and non-violent crimes -- why just African-Americans? Why not everyone similarly situated?
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)I don't see commonality between armed-to-the-teeth racist cops and a few bodyguards who may be packing. If a member of congress had made the statement would they likewise have no credibility because of their security? Or is this the requisite RW-style Moore Hate that accompanies any thread about him?
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)The only thing specious is comparing Moore to a government official.
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)I posed a hypothetical to test if your logic is sound. It's not.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)because he has a bodyguard. Lol.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Post hoc ergo prompter hoc.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Bonobo
(29,257 posts)aikoaiko
(34,185 posts)immoderate
(20,885 posts)Freddie Gray was not killed with a gun. We should make it illegal for police to kill.
--imm
Oktober
(1,488 posts)Twofer...
(snicker)
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)Has this man lost his mind or is it a drunken tweet?
Just make sure to disarm the gangs and criminals and whoever else has guns illegally on the streets. Hell disarm those living in the hood who have legal guns to protect their homes too.
Seriously MM has completely lost me ever since he made that crack about Obama. This is just another irrational point to add to his irrelevance.
RandiFan1290
(6,256 posts)For pissing off all the right trolls!
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)The MO of corporate Third Way propaganda is to give lip service to the disempowerment of minority groups while DEFENDING THE MALIGNANT POLICIES THAT SUSTAIN IT and attacking those who would implicate Third Way politicians in its perpetuation and escalation.
Police militarization has been aggressively expanded under the Obama administration. Militarization of our police departments is a *bipartisan* effort of corporatists in both parties, right along with mass surveillance, the assaults on journalism, and the persecution of whistleblowers. The programs and legislation that are turning our police departments into paramilitary forces come through Homeland Security and the Pentagon, and are being used to suppress and intimidate dissent, exploit communities, and fill lucrative private prisons with slave labor as the nation is corporatized and Americans are made into a nation of low-paid wage slaves.
The entire Democratic leadership opposed Grayson amendment to stop arming cops with DOD weapons
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025390424Police Militarization (including the Obama administration's role)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/06/aclu-police-militarization-swat_n_2813334.htmlIt's almost certain that if the police agencies cooperate, the ACLU will find that the militarization trend has accelerated since Kraska's studies more than a decade ago. All of the policies, incentives and funding mechanisms that were driving the trend then are still in effect now. And most of them have grown in size and scope.
The George W. Bush administration actually began scaling down the Byrne and COPS programs in the early 2000s, part of a general strategy of leaving law enforcement to states and localities. But the Obama administration has since resurrected both programs. The Byrne program got a $2 billion surge in funding as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, by far the largest budget in the program's 25-year history. Obama also gave the COPS program $1.55 billion that same year, a 250 percent increase over its 2008 budget, and again the largest budget in the program's history. Vice President Joe Biden had championed both programs during his time in the Senate.
The Pentagon's 1033 program has also exploded under Obama. In the program's monthly newsletter (Motto: "From Warfighter to Crimefighter" , its director announced in October 2011 that his office had given away a record $500 million in military gear in fiscal year 2011, which he noted, "passes the previous mark by several hundred million dollars." He added, "I believe we can exceed that in FY 12.
Then there are the Department of Homeland Security's anti-terrorism grants. The Center for Investigative Reporting found in a 2011 investigation that since 2001, DHS has given out more than $34 billion in grants to police departments across the country, many of which have been used to purchase military-grade guns, tanks, armor, and armored personnel carriers. The grants have gone to such unlikely terrorism targets as Fargo, N.D.; Canyon County, Idaho; and Tuscaloosa, Ala.
The corporate corruption of this nation will never end as long as we fail to recognize how we are being manipulated by politicians and their propaganda machines that claim to care about these problems, but deliberately rule out discussion of actual policy changes to address them and smear those who attempt to begin such discussions. Notice how our corporate media never even MENTIONS the complicity of corporate politicians in expanding these programs that militarize police.
That is why the lies of neoliberals are so dangerous.