It's a historical fact that the biggest threat to the citizens of any nation isn't outsiders but their own government's police and military–the folks with all the guns, arrest powers and unwavering insistence that their own violence is committed only as a means to peace.
For proof, glance at the history of Iraq, Russia, Syria, Rwanda, Cambodia, Iran, Angola, Bosnia, Egypt, Vietnam, China, Ghana, France, North Korea, Sudan, Italy, Myanmar and on and on.
At various times in its history, United States government agents too have made portions of this nation an abusive police state.
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Who in their right mind would want to be a black man living in 1920 Mississippi?
Now
in the shadows of the world's most famous amusement park residents of
Anaheim are bravely (and in some cases stupidly) confronting the Anaheim
Police Department, an at times callous, authoritative government power
that isn't accustomed to being questioned even when it executes people.
Crisis always spurs creativity and the most original ideas are presently forming outside of the gates of Disneyland.
Several days ago, nationally-syndicated cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz created this image:
Then yesterday Lalo used a Cop Block photo of excessively armed government agents prepared to turn their weapons on U.S. citizens for this:
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(rscottmoxley at ocweekly dot com)
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.