We are witnessing truly damning evidence in the United States against the arguments for arming the police, and we are also witnessing the inevitable results of scapegoating minorities, of demonising minorities and ethnic groups and of presenting people and groups as outsiders and of being 'others'.
Another dangerous trend that we see in America that is being increasingly adopted in this country is that, regardless of what the police do they are never blamed nor held accountable. The police in America have a licence to do whatever they want to a black person.
When America enshrined the three-fifths clause in its Constitution that effectively designated black people as only being three-fifths human, they established a cultural attitude towards black people that became so embedded in American culture that it has still to be eradicated today. The three-fifths clause was infamously reinforced in 1857 by the judgement of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case when Chief Justice Robert B Taney argued that the founders of the Constitution considered that black people were "beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect". He went on to argue that to consider blacks on an equal basis in law with white people "would give to persons of the negro race, ...the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, ...to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased ...the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went". This, the Supreme Court argued, was completely unacceptable.
It is such attitudes that produced the Holocaust; the fear of, and the demonization of other people we don't like and portraying them as sub-human. That is the creeping disease that is affecting the UK and is the product of poisonous propaganda and lies by newspapers such as the Sun, the Express and the Daily Mail in collusion with the Tories and UKIP. We are scapegoating the 'others' - Muslims, immigrants and Europeans in general. As I have been writing on this blog the other great target is Russia.
In this country we have had centuries of working people and 'the lower orders' being portrayed as being of lesser value and worth than the middle and upper classes. I would remind you that there are no class, race, gender, or ethnic differences in the birth process. We all enter the world in exactly the same manner. All differences are artificial and social, they are man-made, and I mean man-made in a literal sense as the world is still even today dominated by males. In this country and the US it is white male dominated.
Do not be fooled or seduced by the dominant ideology, it is the source of all our troubles. There are alternatives, and never be conned by the argument that our rulers are all educated people, they may be well-schooled but that is a quite different thing from being educated. You have been warned
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
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