Bad guys and burdens of proof (Was H Rap Brown)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Michael Perelman wrote:
>
>>Beg to differ, Reagan was mean, but he knew how to look friendly.  Some of
>>you may recall his response after James Rector was shot during the
>>People's Park uprising in Berkeley.  "If it takes a bloodbath ..."
>
>I'm not talking about his actual policies and politics, but the 
>psychology of his appeal. He radiated optimism and sunniness - like 
>Clinton, but unlike W. W radiates a punitive cruelty. The place 
>feels different now from the way it felt then.
>
>Doug

Can't afford to be sunny and optimistic staring down global deflation 
(different from presiding over the Fed-engineered recession), while 
military spending (as percent of GDP) has a long way to go before it 
reaches the mid-80s level.
-- 
Yoshie

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