Re: How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?

At one point, Waters paused his set and began telling the audience
about
Jean Charles de Menezes, a 27-year old Brazilian national who was shot
*8-times* by British police several years ago
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just sing, monkey!

On May 22, 12:57 pm, "MJ" <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> ""If we stand at the top of the slope and give our governments, and
> particularly our police, too much power, it's a very long and dangerous
> slippery slope to the bottom," Waters said.
> "The crowd went berserk, roaring with approval.
> "It certainly gives one hope that the message is sinking in; most folks, it
> seems, have a conceptual understanding that governments are corrupt and
> abusive… but at the end of the day, they'll still fall in line behind the
> political system."
>
> How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
> By Simon Black
> May 21, 2012
> Los Angeles, USA
>
> I had the privilege of seeing Roger Waters perform 'The Wall' to a live
> crowd of over 40,000 fans at the LA Coliseum on Saturday night– the second
> time I've seen the show on this tour.
>
> It was an amazing production– I wholeheartedly recommend the experience as
> it's something that no DVD or album recording could possibly reproduce.
>
> At one point, Waters paused his set and began telling the audience about
> Jean Charles de Menezes, a 27-year old Brazilian national who was shot
> *8-times* by British police several years ago at a south London tube station
> after being mistakenly identified as a terrorist.
>
> The police, adhering to the 'shoot first, ask questions later' model of
> peace enforcement, have never been held accountable for taking the life of
> an innocent man at point blank range.
>
> "If we stand at the top of the slope and give our governments, and
> particularly our police, too much power, it's a very long and dangerous
> slippery slope to the bottom," Waters said.
>
> http://vimeo.com/42561312
>
> The crowd went berserk, roaring with approval.
>
> It certainly gives one hope that the message is sinking in; most folks, it
> seems, have a conceptual understanding that governments are corrupt and
> abusive… but at the end of the day, they'll still fall in line behind the
> political system.
>
> An entire lifetime of programming, starting practically at birth, reinforces
> that government and police are the 'good guys'. It's a difficult inclination
> to break.
>
> The stories that we all hear on an almost daily basis about corruption and
> abuse of power are appalling indeed. But most people think that they're just
> aberrations in an otherwise good system… and that it's just not going to
> happen to them.
>
> Until it does.
>
> George Reby is a great example. The New Jersey resident was driving on I-40
> in Tennessee when he was stopped for speeding. The officer then asked him if
> he was carrying large amounts of cash.
>
> Reby said that he had about $20,000, upon which the officer asked if he
> could search the vehicle.
>
> Reby consented, saying later, "I certainly didn't feel like I was doing
> anything wrong…"
>
> You can probably tell where this is going… the officer promptly confiscated
> the cash, claiming that it might be used for drug trafficking. Reby
> explained that he was on his way to buy a car he'd found on eBay (and even
> showed him the eBay ad), and showed that the source of funds were legitimate
>
> It didn't matter. He had his money stolen in the most insidious way…by a
> thuggish, criminal agent of the government (who was sporting a rather
> menacing neck tattoo).
>
> At least a real criminal knows what he's doing is wrong; he knows that he's
> committing an immoral act by shooting or robbing someone. The police, on the
> other hand, think their actions are legitimate, that they're just 'doing
> their job.'
>
> This is intellectually dishonest and morally reprehensible. Everyone
> involved, including the officer himself, agreed that Reby committed no
> crime… that it's perfectly legal to carry cash.
>
> Yet citizens like Reby are routinely relieved of their hard-earned savings,
> and then have to spend thousands of dollars fighting to get it back.
>
> As it turns out, police have a huge incentive to steal; they get a healthy
> cut of the proceeds from any asset seizure, and the funds go to pay for new
> toys like those whiz bang Camaro hot rod police cruisers.
>
> You can check out Reby's disgraceful story here:
>
> http://youtu.be/TSIrfP81-ms
>
> It goes to show that this idea of "I've done nothing wrong, I've got nothing
> to hide, so I have nothing to fear…" is completely bogus.
>
> People who are completely innocent of any wrongdoing can still have their
> lives turned upside down by a corrupt government that has an incentive to
> plunder its citizens.
>
> Yet every time we turn around, they've managed to award themselves more
> power, more authority.
>
> From the NDAA which authorizes the military detention of US citizens on US
> soil, to President Obama's executive order authorizing government
> confiscation of practically everything, to the UK's new plan to monitor all
> mobile, phone, email, and text messages going in, out, or through the
> country.
>
> From Rome to the Ottoman Empire, history is full of examples of failing,
> insolvent governments that resort to similar tactics of desperately
> pillaging the wealth and freedoms of their citizens. The conclusions we can
> draw from this are simple:
>
> 1) The trend for failing states is to grant themselves more power.
> 1) Power, once granted, is almost impossible to take back.
> 2) More power means more abuse of power.
> 3) It can (and does) happen to anyone.
>
> Putting any faith in an insolvent government to do the right thing is
> absurd… and it behooves everyone to safeguard important assets and interests
> by diversifying internationally.
>
> http://www.sovereignman.com/expat/how-can-you-have-any-pudding-if-you...
>
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