YES! Police need to protect & serve, not frighten & kill.
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YES! Police need to be positive members in our communities.
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Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Hello All
Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
Please follow us across to hartmannreport.com - this will be the only place going forward to read Thom's blog posts and articles.
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From Cracking the Code:
"Thom Hartmann ought to be bronzed. His new book sets off from the same high plane as the last and offers explicit tools and how-to advice that will allow you to see, hear, and feel propaganda when it's directed at you and use the same techniques to refute it. His book would make a deaf-mute a better communicator. I want him on my reading table every day, and if you try one of his books, so will you."
From Screwed:
"Thom Hartmann’s book explains in simple language and with concrete research the details of the Neo-con’s war against the American middle class. It proves what many have intuited and serves to remind us that without a healthy, employed, and vital middle class, America is no more than the richest Third World country on the planet."
From The Thom Hartmann Reader:
"Thom Hartmann is a creative thinker and committed small-d democrat. He has dealt with a wide range of topics throughout his life, and this book provides an excellent cross section. The Thom Hartmann Reader will make people both angry and motivated to act."
A NO option is needed. I have no problem with law emforcment or how the law is applied. Michael Brown is 6'5" weighs about 300 he used his large size to push a 4'5" Indian guy that weighed maybe 125 pounds. Mr. Brown had a guilty conscience. Yes the police officer didn't know but Michael didn't know that. All he had to do was comply with getting out of the road. He chose to fight instead until he was shot.
The police don't frighten me and I'm African American. Since I obey the law, I don't sell or use drugs, drive drunk, steal, kill or rob people I have nothing to fear from the all white police force in my town.
Michael Brown truly was a big young man, an immature young man that was unarmed. What ever happen to less than deadly force procedures! I’m sure that this officer had a nightstick or even Mace, deadly force did not have to be used. Backup could have been there within a few minutes. We must take a hard look on the training procedures of our law enforcement. Things are definitely getting out of control. State and local governments should start policing the police force, by means of a two or a four-year college/university degree on law and law enforcement before entering a police academy. With a psychological profile evaluation that will prevent psychopaths from becoming law enforcement members.