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Tony Bouza> America’s police are out of control

America’s police are out of control BY TONY BOUZA April 2012 Southside Pride What can possibly justify so sweeping an assertion? I will try. I started in policing on 1/1/53 in the NYPD, rose, over 24 years, to command Bronx forces and then served three as #2 in the Transit Police. This was More

Tomgram> Rebecca Solnit, Why the Media Loves the Violence of Protesters and Not of Banks

Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, Why the Media Loves the Violence of Protesters and Not of Banks Posted by Rebecca Solnit at 9:40AM, February 21, 2012. Tom Dispatch In December 2001, 110 of 112 revelers at a wedding died, thanks to a B-52 and two B-1B bombers using precision-guided weapons to essentially wipe out a village in Eastern Afghanistan (and then, More