Right Wing Death Squads
Then, a police force made up of a diverse group of people whose forebears were enslavers, slaves, and slave catchers took to the streets in riot gear and armored personnel carriers to keep Memphis “safe” from people who wanted to protest the brutality of those cops.
All of that should be obvious, but apparently there are people out here who can’t understand how “Black” cops could commit this act born of “white” supremacy.
- Cops Lynched Tyre Nichols Because They Knew They Could, The Nation
At least 1,176 people were killed by law enforcement officers in the US last year, the most of any year since at least 2013.
Of people killed by law enforcement last year, 287 were Black. That’s 24% of the total number of police killings, the group found. US Census data show 13.6% of the population is Black.
“The majority of these killings began with in response to a mental health call, routine traffic stop, a non-violent offense or disturbance or a situation where there was no crime alleged,” Samuel Sinyangwe, Mapping Police Violence’s founder, said.
- Last Year Was Deadliest Year on Record for Police Violence in the US – Bloomberg
US police have shot dead more than 1,000 Americans per year over the past eight years.
By Gregg Wall 2-4-2023
The Tyre Nichols murder was a new low for the United States, in a long, long running history of lows. If to whom much is given much is expected… why does America continually fail to fully appreciate and live up to the multitude of gifts the country has received? Again and again, America’s leadership demonstrates they aren’t fit for anything, but corruption & gross mismanagement. The more America is given, the more our leadership fails, exponentially, and demonstrates itself unworthy.
In watching the police video, I had two immediate thoughts, one, this must have been what Christ went though, at the hands of Roman soldiers, before he was nailed to the cross. The second thought was, this is a god damned Latin American death squad. Right here, in Tennessee… as racist a hellhole as you’ll find in America.
Right wing death squads, of course, are covert & paramilitary organizations. These organizations often consist of public officials, military, Nazis & fascists who get off on the action, and police officers, who carry out extrajudicial killings and eliminate & punish undesirable elements in society (such as, people who exercise their right to free speech, or protest, or have the audacity to tell a country’s oligarchs that the country is entirely on the wrong track). It’s generally, the disenfranchised, the poor, ‘the other,’ who speak out & are subsequently silenced (often buried in unmarked graves). The right wing death squad serves three purposes: plausible deniability, the state can disavow any knowledge or affiliation; those who dare speak out are often disappeared, eliminated expeditiously; and it sends a message of fear throughout society.
And why would right wing death squads, in America, be anyone’s surprise? America’s police state is now engaged in a thousand-plus extrajudicial killings, per annum, for the last eight years. The right wing death squad is in keeping with a failed state, kleptocracy, massive inequality, and oligarchy… that is to say, unaccountable wealth & privilege and great evil. It’s associated with economies that no longer function, where nearly all wealth rolls up to a privileged elite.
Given America’s history of slavery and prison slavery, right up to the present day, yes, this is the place. Given the indentured servitude that is alive and well, which accompanies a non-living wage, yes, America is the place. See America’s atrocious minimum wage at $7.25. See the number one cause of bankruptcy in the United States, Big Pharma & for-profit health care. Kleptocracy? Yes again, America certainly has that nailed, with an explosion in the national debt, from less than $10 trillion before ’08 to $35 trillion today. Almost all that debt went to financing endless for-profit wars, banker & billionaire bailouts, tax cuts for the rich, jacking the stock market into the stratosphere, privatization schemes, and endless corporate welfare & fraud.
It's no accident that former colonial powers and America’s current empire… all exploit slave labor & indentured servitude presently, via the industrial policies of neoliberalism and globalization. Child labor? Slave labor? American multinationals have that covered. They just hire a subcontractor to do the dirty work or buy commodities on world markets, which provide at least one degree of separation. No sense in Wall Street getting dirty with all that blood, poverty, slavery, and the tears of child labor. And the Europeans are definitely in on the action.
The free market? What free market? When the economy consists largely of monopolies and cartels, colluding Wall Street, McKinsey, & interlocking boards of directors… there is no price discovery. Only boardroom & C-suite despots dictating prices and wages (and commanding obscene profits).
And far too many of my white brothers and sisters are missing the boat, entirely. Far too many will defend the U.S. economy and American exceptionalism, despite all evidence to the contrary. Despite the fact that billionaires, globalization -- and an economy based upon financial engineering, monopoly, and unmitigated greed -- have already rendered so many privileged white Americans: obsolete. Finito. And it’s only going to get worse. In response to my observations that the American economy runs on labor oppression, wage slavery, indentured servitude, and a pool of slave labor, globally… the responses I received online were workers can quit or workers can start a business?
Right.
Let’s be clear.
· Systemic racism thrives in America.
· Police State murder thrives in America.
· The war machine thrives in America.
· The prison industrial complex flourishes in America.
· Wage slavery thrives in the United States.
· Indentured servitude? Every child in the US is born today with just under $100,000 in national debt hanging over their head, from the moment they take their first breathe.
· Monopoly & oligarchy thrive in America.
· Corruption thrives in America.
(What increasingly does not thrive: civil liberties, democracy, freedom, and an economy that works for all.)
Which explains why the nastiest police & surveillance state the world has ever seen thrives in the United States of America. Because congress is on board, as is their ownership: banks, billionaires, multinationals, oligarchy, and Wall St. To them, the police & surveillance state are profit centers.
The elites are deeply fearful and their response?
A police & surveillance state, right wing death squads, and an unprecedented and growing number of extrajudicial killings. (What's unique about American death squads are that they are overt, operating in plain sight, and openly sanctioned by the state.)
That, and platitudes about ‘fighting chance,’ equality of opportunity, but not equality of outcomes… while Washington shovels hundreds of billions (as fast as the FED & Treasury can print it up) into the laps of entirely corrupt and evil men & women.
Copyright JM Hamilton Publishing 2023
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