[lbo-talk] Obama Speaks Out on Trayvon Martin Killing

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Fri Mar 23 18:42:50 PDT 2012


On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 3:25 AM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:

The lesson of this is that by no stretch of imagination can the American
> police-judicial-correctional apparatus be considered the expression of a
> decent social order.
>

Who do you imagine would need that lesson and is likely to read this?

If one's resistance to the social order includes opposition to police forces, criminal courts, and prison systems - not the presently-existing ones, but the ideas themselves - complaining that they "missed one" betrays an obvious inconsistency of thought.

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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