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The Supreme Court’s conservative wing says that we must be faithful to the Constitution’s text and history. But originalists on the Supreme Court have turned a blind eye to the efforts of the 14th Amendment’s framers to check police violence. The Supreme Court has never once recognized that the 14th Amendment was ratified against the backdrop of brutal killings of people of color by the police. Getting this history right is essential to correcting police abuses today.
Police brutality and murder flared up in the summer of 1866, as Congress completed its work on the 14th amendment and the American people considered whether to ratify it. In Memphis, Tennessee, and New Orleans, white police officers led bloody massacres of black citizens and their allies, which left hundreds dead and many more badly beaten. These tragic events served as painful reminders that state governments would not respect the fundamental rights of black citizens and that police violence and discriminatory policing would continue unchecked without new constitutional guarantees. As an investigation of the Louisiana massacre concluded, without new protections, “the whole body of colored people” would continue to be “hunted like wild beasts, and slaughtered without mercy and with entire impunity from punishment.”
The 14th Amendment was added to the Constitution against the backdrop of a campaign of terror and violence against black Americans by white police officers. The authors of the 14th Amendment, in a report that detailed the need for universal guarantees of liberty and equality, laid out, often in gruesome detail, how white police officers were engaged in a campaign of unending violence against black people. Police beat and killed black Americans while turning a blind eye to crimes committed against them. The 14th Amendment was designed to put an end to such police violence and killings. It vindicated the demands of black Americans that “now that we are free we do not want to be hunted,” we want to be “treated like human beings.” Recently emancipated slaves could not take their place as equal citizens in our nation if police officers were free to brutalize them.
More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/supreme-court-enabled-geor
ge-floyd-murder-police-violence.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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There's not going to be any NECESSARY police reform after this.
There would have been. But not now.
The average person by an overwhelming majority in this country was sympathetic toward Floyd after his death. The average person by an overwhelming majority would admit that they believe that the police force in the country needs an enema, and that just like the Catholic Church should have done with rapey priests, cops that got off on abusing people should have been purged.
But then it turns to riots and cities burn down, and then millions of people who never owned a gun before go out and buy one, leading to two months of record breaking gun sales.
Though the race riots when Nixon was running for reelection were a lot worse than anything happening right now, that doesn't matter because of how the Legacy Media is covering them today.
Fun Fact: Nixon won in a landslide. Not only winning by 18,000,000 more votes than McGovern and the widest popular vote margin in history, but securing 520 electoral college votes.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:McGovern is an excellent example. He was clearly against the Vietnam War. But Americans wanted more war and they got it. It didn't end well for Americans, and they didn't understand how their decisions allowed Nixon to badly screw up that war, but North Vietnam understood completely. Funny how the American voters learned nothing, and knowing nothing has steadily made middle-class and lower-class voters poorer and poorer ever since.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
There's not going to be any NECESSARY police reform after this.
There would have been. But not now.
The average person by an overwhelming majority in this country was sympathetic toward Floyd after his death. The average person by an overwhelming majority would admit that they believe that the police force in the country needs an enema, and that just like the Catholic Church should have done with rapey priests, cops that got off on abusing people should have been purged.
But then it turns to riots and cities burn down, and then millions of people who never owned a gun before go out and buy one, leading to two months of record breaking gun sales.
Though the race riots when Nixon was running for reelection were a lot worse than anything happening right now, that doesn't matter because of how the Legacy Media is covering them today.
Fun Fact: Nixon won in a landslide. Not only winning by 18,000,000 more votes than McGovern and the widest popular vote margin in history, but securing 520 electoral college votes.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
60 Years of American Economic History, Told in 1 Graph
www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/60-years-of-american-econ
omic-history-told-in-1-graph/261503/
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Yep, D or R, from 1980 on, it didn't matter what the president was - the story stayed the same.
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Quote:What made me rich was not taking the advice of people who voted for more war in Vietnam. Trump is setting the US up for more war by cancelling every nuclear weapon treaty. If that is what you want, go for it. Or you could vote for either the Green Party or the libertarians because this time they will finally win Congress and the White House after losing all the previous times.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Yep, D or R, from 1980 on, it didn't matter what the president was - the story stayed the same.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Yep -
I have the luxury of voting my conscience because the roughly 8,612,368 registered democrats in California (as of 2019) will do the heavy lifting for moi.
You know, you wouldn't have to be so aggravated by all those Texas republicans if you moved to demographics you liked better. What with all your money I'm sure it would be doable enough.
And then we wouldn't have to put up with your insane - like, out of touch with reality insane - endless bitching about how Texas republicans created every bit of evil everywhere on the planet, all the way back to Genesis.
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Quote:Does your conscience say vote for Trump and defend him on fff.net? The guy is crazy. Does your conscience say vote for some 3rd party that can't win or run for President yourself? Then you are crazy.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Yep -
I have the luxury of voting my conscience because the roughly 8,612,368 registered democrats in California (as of 2019) will do the heavy lifting for moi.
You know, you wouldn't have to be so aggravated by all those Texas republicans if you moved to demographics you liked better. What with all your money I'm sure it would be doable enough.
And then we wouldn't have to put up with your insane - like, out of touch with reality insane - endless bitching about how Texas republicans created every bit of evil everywhere on the planet, all the way back to Genesis.
My low opinion of Republicans sprang from the Vietnam War. A Republican soldier would gun down a water buffalo, in S. Vietnam. When asked why, it was to win the war. Crazy thinking. Back in America, Republicans (and D's that would eventually switch to R's) were no more sane about war than that soldier. But that was long ago and not everything is as dramatic as war. Very recently I talked to Republicans about Trump cancelling nuclear weapon treaties. I didn't like what I found. If you scratch the surface of a Republican, underneath you find crazy. So why wouldn't a Republican politician be crazy like Republican voters? They are water from the same pool.
The Psychopath in Chief
https://gen.medium.com/the-psychopath-in-chief-aa10ab2165d9
"I spent hundreds of hours with Donald Trump to ghost-write ‘The Art of the Deal.’ I now see a deeper meaning behind his behavior." – Tony Schwartz
More Republican craziness this morning: Texas anti-vaxxers say COVID-19 contact tracing is government surveillance
The Texas group that lobbies against vaccine requirements is now launching a campaign against COVID-19 contact tracing, a tried-and-true public health measure to contain disease spread.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/anti-vaxxer-
group-coronavirus-contract-tracing-15317019.php
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'Crazy' is you thinking that my vote in California is going to change anything about California's electoral vote.
But speaking of California, why don't you move? Then you won't have to talk to any republicans. And you wouldn't keep being aggravated, and maybe you would even start to recover. I'm sure you could find the perfect location somewhere here. Hollywood sounds like it might do the trick, or San Fran, or Santa Clara Valley (Silicon Valley).
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
My low opinion of Republicans sprang from the Vietnam War.
And what Second hasn't realized is just how much the country and both parties have changed since 1975.
He's still stuck in a world where Thin Lizzy is at the top of the charts.
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Betting odds have been godawful wrong before as well -
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/writeup/us_presidential_elect
ion_live_betting_odds.html#!
https://www.oddsshark.com/entertainment/us-presidential-odds-2016-futu
res
https://www.gamblingsites.com/blog/2016-presidential-election-odds-bet
ting-13571/
https://www.bigonsports.com/2016-elections-odds-hillary-clinton-vs-don
ald-trump/
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/720279/US-election-2016-latest-od
ds-tracker-Donald-Trump-Hillary-Clinton-win
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