Archive for December 17th, 2012
How does this happen?
Posted by John, December 17th, 2012 - under Alienation, Barack Obama, Gun control, Massacres, Newtown, Sandy Hook Elementary School, US imperialism.
Comments: 9
Easy access to guns – one-third of Americans own a gun, and the U.S. as a whole has half the world’s guns in civilian hands – may provide the means for committing certain types of crimes, but the roots of Adam Lanza’s actions go deeper. They lie in a profoundly alienated society in which violence in general is sanctioned by the most exalted American institutions–as long as it is carried out for “legitimate” purposes, like U.S. wars abroad or police at home defending law and order.
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Suicide and the hypocrisy of the media’s royal love-in
Posted by John, December 17th, 2012 - under 2Day FM, Monarchy, Radio, Royalty, Suicide.
Comments: none
We should oppose the poverty, alienation and misery that isolates people in despair. And we should have no truck with the hypocritical handwringing of those at the top who cause that misery.