Hate Sells category archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The polite always act like gentlemen.
Police in Myrtle Beach have ruled an early morning shooting outside a strip club was an accident.
The Sun News of Myrtle Beach reported Saturday (http://bit.ly/1OjItMd ) that 24-year-old Christopher John Clarida was charged with unlawfully carrying a weapon after a gun he had discharged about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday outside Derriere’s Gentleman’s Club.
Why the hell would one need a firearm at a strip club? Oh, I forgot. There’s a reason it’s called ammosexuality.
Reading My Mind 0
John Cole puts words to my inchoate feelings of earlier today.
The white power structure in Missouri wants themselves a riot in Ferguson so as to justify their racism.
It’s an effect–>cause thing.
Aside:
I used “inchoate” correctly in a blog post.
The United States of Phobia 0
Kevin Horrigan comments on fear and the mongers of fear. A nugget:
To judge from the news, we Americans are the most fearful people on Earth. We’ve come to be proud of how afraid we are, strapping on our guns and parading through the streets.
Nutshell 2
Southern Beale sums up the hysteria, which, you will note, is being ginned up by the usual right-wing fear mongers.
We are a society of stupid.
Afterthought:
I was agin’ the body scanners, mostly because I considered them a waste of money and effort, silly security theatre, not because I thought they violated civil liberties. Civil liberties are no more; corporations have stolen them. For example (via Bruce Schneier):