03.06.2016 Author: Martin Berger
US is Getting Torn Apart by Washington’s Policies
Column: Society
Region: USA in the World
Today, if you take a look at the American media, you will
immediately notice that the vast majority of articles are centered around two
primary topics: constant, ruthless and often sponsored criticism of Russia and
the resentment most American have towards the White House and its policies.
Never before America has been so deeply divided, and it seems that it
can start coming apart at the seams, which has been clearly manifested over the
course of the presidential campaign. The Important
News would
note:
Waves of anger, frustration, violence and civil
unrest are starting to sweep across the United States, and political rallies
for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump have become a focal point
for releasing some of that energy.
This media source would point out that American politicians and the
mainstream media have been pitting various groups against one another for
years, which resulted in people’s hearts growing cold. Once you start
dismantling fundamental institutions such as the family and the church, people
start to behave in a predictably cruel way.
All across the country the number of violent crimes has been
skyrocketing. In Chicago, the number of people that have been shot so far in
2016 is 50 percent higher than during the same period last year. Experts can
not agree on what to call the recent rise in homicides, much less its cause,
but new data has showed a sharp spike in homicide rates in more than 20 cities
of the US, raising the question of whether it is time to sound the alarm.
However, instead of addressing the social concerns of the US population,
authorities took the path of strengthening repressive measures against their
fellow citizens.
It’s been reported by AlterNet that the NYPD announced its
plans to stock more powerful and potent pepper spray, a step that has been
opposed unanimously by activists and human rights organizations.
The source would note that only in the twisted minds of NYPD officials
would “more powerful weapons” be a solution to prevent their officers from
abusing their own power. Nevertheless, they claim that this would be
intended to prevent police from shooting people.
The potency that has been used by the NYPD and other departments
previously is already highly dangerous with a concentration of just .21%
capsaicinoids. The new spray will be concentrated at .67 % which will
undoubtedly be more dangerous and far more painful. The NYPD has already begun
rolling out the new concentration and has equipped over 19,000 officers with
the new mixture. The strongest pepper spray in the country is used by the
Suffolk County Police Department, the US Marshals Service and the Boston Police
Department, each of them using a pepper spray with a potency of 1.33%.
Therefore, it is hardly surprising that against the emergence of more
potent pepper spray, human rights organizations in New York are accusing the
city police of excessive abuse of power (the new plan to stock high potency
pepper spray has been opposed unanimously by activists and human rights
organizations).
This trend is developing against a background of US law enforcement
agencies running away in terms of violating civil rights, Reuters would note. According to The
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review newspaper, Federal prosecutors declined to bring
charges against law enforcement officers in the United States facing
allegations of civil rights violations in 96 percent of relevant cases between
1995 and 2015. Overall, prosecutors turned down 12,703 potential civil rights
violations out of 13,233 total complaints. Those figures clearly show that the
claims made by the Black Lives Matter movement have been relatively accurate
all along.
As for those who are not tasked with the mission of upholding
Washington’s “regime,” they are going to jail by hundreds, often without the
slightest chance of proving their innocence. The Huffington
Post would
note that California has squandered hundreds of millions of tax dollars on
faulty convictions that have led to people collectively wasting hundreds of
years behind bars, according to a new report on the state’s criminal justice
system. According to the report prepared by the Law School of the University of
California, Berkeley, after examining 692 failed adult felony convictions that
occurred in the state between 1989 and 2012, it was found that 700 individuals
who were subjected to these failed prosecutions perhaps paid the ultimate price
– collectively, they lost over 2,000 years in jails or prisons.
It’s not surprising then that the angry mob that threw rocks and bottles
at police and Donald Trump supporters on May 27 wanted to get the attention of
the national media. Now that the election is less than five months away, this
kind of angry behavior is going to be repeated over and over again. Millions
upon millions of young Americans have fully embraced the radical, and they are
intent on making it clear that they are not afraid to use violence to advance
their cause.
Under these conditions, most sober American analysts are asking the only
logical question: If this is happening now, with the stock market growing and
unemployment being a bit lower than it was during the depths of the last
recession, what is going to happen when things start getting really bad? It’s
hardly a secret that desperate people do desperate things, and if people are
willing to hurl rocks because they are upset at a presidential candidate, what
are they going to do when there is no food left for their families?
Martin Berger is a freelance
journalist and geopolitical analyst, exclusively for the online
magazine “New Eastern Outlook.”
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.