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We have met the enemy, and he is us!

He has sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance- Declaration of Independence

It used to be so easy to frame people and falsely convict them, and they were virtually powerless to defend themselves, but then advancing technology like video cameras, DNA, public records access, etc, is not only shutting down that racist system but it is revealing how often the legal system framed innocent people in the past, many spending decades rotting in jail.

We note how the system always tries to portray their failures as a few bad cops but there are endless examples of entire departments acting in unison to falsely convict citizens; ENTIRE DEPARTMENTS. We read about these accounts all the time such as old DNA evidence exonerating people framed by the racist legal system. Entire departments at every level often had to hide exculpatory evidence, doctor crime lab evidence, and coerce false witnesses in order to orchestrate these convictions, so it was not just one bad cop, the bad cops conspiracy has been systemic including most any major police department: Houston, Colorado, Detroit, Phildelphia (link). The police racism has also been systemic: Oakland, San Francisco, Chicago, etc. Again- thanks to technology- anyone can get online and easily search and verify what we are reporting here.

But this systematic war on minorities comes all the way from the top:

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The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.

— John Ehrlichman, Nixon White House Domestic Affairs Advisor, on the War on drugs in a Harper's Magazine interview in 1994

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Recall that Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated on April 4, 1968 and was followed only 2 months later by the assassination of then democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy on June 6, 1963. Kennedy had run on a platform of racial and economic justice, non-aggression in foreign policy, decentralization of power and social change. When he declared his candidacy on March 16, 1968 he said “I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and because I have such strong feelings about what must be done, and I feel that I'm obliged to do all I can.” Kennedy had attended King's funeral and was described as being the "only white politician to hear only cheers and applause."

With Kennedy out of the way, lying REPUBLICAN Richard Nixon then became the president in 1968 and instead declared a domestic racist war on Black people using domestic police to terrorize black people and it has been going on ever since. Think of how many millions of people have been terrorized and killed here in America in the past 48 years as a result of this government sanctioned domestic terrorism.

And overseas everyone knows most recently that lying REPUBLICAN president George W. Bush lied to America to have our military police start terrorizing with Iraq and expand from there. And George W. Bush could not have been happier at the Dallas Police Memorial where he was literally dancing with joy to see that the jihad he started overseas was finally taking place in America. He could not even conceal his delight while standing by Obama thinking that soon lying REPUBLICAN Donald J. Trump will be in office and will finally make their dreams of a supremacist REPUBLICAN jihad in America come true.

Sooner than you think, all citizens will be treated like we are the terrorist. When people find out how they have been terrorized and abused by their own government for generations, they are gonna be so angry that they might try to take matters in to their own hands like the Dallas tragedy.

Part 2: The Law of unintended consequences

America acts like the global police; policing the world and enforcing our demands throughout the world at gun point or bomb point, and even fabricating justifications (WMD in Iraq). Consequently many countries consider us to be the terrorist. This is why the US has the highest kill bill in the world. And there is little difference between our foreign policy and domestic policy when it comes to excessive use of deadly police force. This is why the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and the highest domestic police killing rate. Additionally we export billions of dollars in guns and bombs throughout the world annually; $36.2 billion just in conventional arms in 2014 (link). The United States is the single largest provider of arms around the world controlling more than 50 percent of the market; arms that are used to terrorize people. Would that also make us the single largest provider of terrorism in the world?

By the way the report linked above was written for congress by their own Congressional Research Service in 2015; so when congress is doing a sit-in protesting action on domestic gun control, they are well aware of their whole hearted support of exporting guns, bombs and terrorism to the rest of the world.

Domestic police often act locally like our military acts internationally including heavy militarization. They often terrorize some- like young black men- more than others. Sometimes this has disastrous consequences, not unlike the loss of innocent life overseas when an unmanned drone bombs a building and kills entire families of innocent children and civilians.

This excessive deadly force is so pervasive to the police mentality that it even results when there is no actual danger, resulting in innocent people (most often young black men) being gunned down, even when surrendering.

This excessive use of deadly police force is nothing new. It has been going on forever, usually against oppressed people. In the past it was just covered up. What is different now is - thanks to technology (phones with cameras and the internet) - we now have a greater awareness of these abuses than ever before and can watch them first hand over and over like Ferguson.

And because of this awareness of our police using excessive deadly force, both home and abroad, it is coming home to roost. Typically the public is only aware of the domestic half of this but, unfortunately, occasionally there are going to be those who are both American and another nationality and are aware of both sides of this.

Part 3: So why does this keep happening?

So bringing this full circle, it is important to note that the Orlando Police Department, FBI & Justice Department also did not originally release any of the transcript of the Pulse 911 call. Like the timeline they do not want Americans to know the details. But they were more than eager to leak one tiny part of the transcript- that the shooter pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. This allowed the media to control the narrative of what the motivations were and this then gave President Obama enough time to come down to Orlando and give his “Why does this keep happening?” speech where he blames congress’ failure to pass gun control for the tragedy.

This in turn was followed by the democrats doing a sit-in for domestic gun control legislation last week all the while ignoring their hypocritical billion dollar guns & bombs export business and their excessive use of deadly police force all over the world. After they had misdirected us all, they still have only released select pieces of the 911 transcript to control their narrative. It is only then we learn that the shooter answers the very question of “why does this keep happening?” and the answer is: stop bombing my country. This also happens to be the same reason that the Boston bomber gave for his actions.

It makes you wonder how congress can participate in this charade and sit on the floor and cover-up the reality of their own terrorism in supporting shooting and bombing throughout the world. Congress clearly does not want gun and bomb control for the rest of the world; they only want gun control for Americans and soon they will have surveillance on us all and they will be treating us all like potential terrorist and terrorizing us just like they now terrorize the rest of the world. And that is why this keeps happening.

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