The fact that the US government can hide or withhold information from its citizens that are not state secrets is mind-blowingly immoral. We need a fucking constitutional rewrite.
The fact that the US government can hide or withhold information from its citizens that are not state secrets is mind-blowingly immoral. We need a fucking constitutional rewrite.
I’m a big guy and the burger king whopper Jr meal was my go to when I worked near one.
I don’t understand how the police can prevent public information from being released. They are just government employees and that is the people’s information. If it’s not classified due to national security reasons or a specific foia reason then this should be released without question.
He is doing 57 months because he is serving for multiple crimes simultaneously.
Police who violate the law should not be allowed anything but the maximum sentence non-concurrent with other crimes.
But cops protect those who have power and those who have power. Don’t want to piss off the cops so here we are.
You and I just may have different opinions about how the government works at the senior levels.
Sincerely,
A retired career federal employee.
I hear you. I was in the army when 9/11 happened so I didn’t have a choice but to be involved in the response. I was ready to show how I had trained against the Saudis who attacked us so when all of the units plans changed to Iraq, my opinion about 9/11 and all of the ongoing US propaganda for it kind of changed.
Now it’s over 20 years later and after having deployed three times I have lost more of my friends to poverty and health related suicide (thank you, department of veterans affairs) I would say that the poor suffered more in 2008 then we did as a nation from that attack. America needs us to remember that small attack so that we can maintain endless wars in countries which are proxy, fights and training grounds for our soldiers. We shouldn’t be killing people. We should be focused on making sure the billionaires aren’t crashing the economy in cycles in order to profit from our endless labor.
9/11 should be remembered for the horrific act that it was, but the cult following that it turned into is wrong. How many people died in terrorist attacks in American history and how many people have had their liberties deprived by police, especially if they are the wrong color? Worse things are happening every day. We need to be distracted though.
The laws that the EPA has to follow and the people controlling it are who I am referring to. Politicians are taking money to prevent lifelong EPA employees from saving our lives.
Or paid their bosses (congress) a surprisingly small amount of money (bribes (“lobbying”)).
Being a retired soldier my perspective is thus: the winners that are writing the history books aren’t necessarily the winners, but those who killed the most.
Often those who deviate from the laws of war in order to cheat and win in horrific ways then get to write about the other side being the bad guys…
Those cucumber farmers in Iraq sure didn’t seem like the Al-Qaeda/ isis that I was told they were. Afghanistan was similar. Nobody was the hero involved in that.
I’m a veteran.
PTSD from combat and gun stuff.
I call the crisis line due to PTSD episode and panic attack.
Cops with guns drawn show up to determine if I should be committed against my will.
I have to fake my way through a panic attack to convince them I’m fine.
They believe me and leave me alone.
I wonder what the next steps are.
Fuck cops.