The primaries yet what do those numbers tell you about the state of our federal election spending over support groups its more about what it says about the state of politics what its what benjamin demat called junk politics if you look closely at how this money is spent it is not about the dissemination of ideas its about the dissemination of emotions about manufactured political personalities. About making people confuse knowledge with how they are made to feel and i think whats so interesting about the 2016 election is that trump for all of his deficiencies is a least good at that Reality Television show in a way that jeb bush or Hillary Clinton is not. And so it is about conforming to a particular model that is anti political anti thought and and really corrosive to. Politics itself and it affects the media so c. N. N. Wheres this money going its going to Networks Like c. N. N. Who perpetuate the. Kind of moral and intellectual deterioration masquerading as politics because they turn it into really just you know 2 sports teams fighting each other and thats conscious you know that zucker quite consciously modeled out of e. S. P. N. Is that is that dry. 12000000000. 00 just to really at the end of the kind of like you said you know shrink what actually is being talked about really its just spending to get recognition for the name recognition and to impart the way advertisers are quite skillful at doing an emotional response to elicit an emotional response we see it with bloomberg. You know what are the commercials are there content less like all of them bloomberg you know surrounded by children holding you know whatever it is but thats so its its politics has just become another species or another arm of the Advertising Industry which of course. Corporate advertisers have flooded the airwaves with lies and then this is just another lie i mean if you look back at Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016 there was almost no policy discussed of the more policy discussed by trump ironically but it is about. Focusing everything around these manufactured political personalities and how you how you are made to feel about them and the media is. Essentially complicit in perpetuating these narratives which are which have been so corrosive to the political system. Our nays laid it out and you know whats fascinating go read back and read his book propaganda its hes a good theyre quite upfront about it theyre quite do you go back to wall to lippmann i mean. Public opinion that if they know what theyre doing they know how to do it and its just part of part of the spin and theres that you know the playing off of each other is one giant. Big brother show it really is. Interesting lee you also came out with a fascinating article recently titled the new black codes which which delves into how you know and i think its going to an extension even of what were talking about here but kind of controlled by the powerful you go into how Law Enforcement agencies across the United States are centrally being used. For language or brutal tools of social control over the poor d and the minorities in this country how how does that manifest itself through the police department. Lets begin with the fact that both of the Political Parties were complicit in carrying out deindustrialization in the liberalism and austerity which affected certainly most severely poor people of color in these d. M. Just realized urban centers what malcolm x. Called internal colonies so how do you then keep these people under control they dont have meaningful work theyre forced into the illegal economy its through. Police powers including carrying assault style weapons this kind of stuff and the ability to use them a 1000 people a year almost all unarmed are killed in the United States by police thats one every 8 hours and mass incarceration these are the 2 mechanisms by which you keep the underclass so that this kind of propaganda it doesnt work to people live there theyre just never going to feel good about you know Hillary Clinton or joe biden because they get it theyre living under such severe economic and even argue political oppression and so you have you know these these pockets in essence are stateless theyve been stripped of their rights 94 percent of the people in our prison population never had a jury trial. And thats what Hannah Arendt called the stateless people with and she said when you have a segment of any society that is stripped of their rights rights become privileges but the real danger is you set up both the legal and the 5th. Nicol mechanisms should this unrest or potential unrest spread to the rest of the population it can be used against them and so this is part of this creeping. Kind of road to american tyranny thats call minator in a figure like disregard for the rule of law which hardly began with the trump administrator in fact many of the far more egregious impeachable offenses that trump committed including i think its 11 illegal wars that never been declared by congress and. Reinterpretation of the authorization authorization use military force act under obama as giving them the right to assassinate american citizens which they did. 2 weeks later the 16 year old son the the wholesale surveillance and so it is about the breakdown of the rule of law and the kind of imposition of far more draconian tactics which the poor in this country already suffer from. For control its interesting too because one of the things that really jumped out at me in that article that you wrote which i again i highly recommend people going take a look at and also matt taibbi book on the death of eric garner its a great its a great for a very good book its a very good book you write that more training body Cameras Community policing the hiring of minority Members Police officers a better Probation Service equitable fines and special events to investigate police abuse are really Public Relations gimmicks and i think its important for people to realize that and how are these you know explain how are these gimmicks because i remember youve got you know n. B. C. C. N. N. All of these political leaders and politicians saying oh this is the answer this will make police better in america quote unquote more professional in fact has a done historically it has swelled the power in the arsenals of police as well as the ability of police to carry out agree just assaults of. Specially against people of color when were talking about. Heavily armed swat teams with kevlar vests and long barreled weapons kicking down doors and terrorizing people in apartments for nonviolent drug. Arrests. Are going to have a camera on there but you know how that works is that what the guy in the camera the back and they and the theyre beating the hell out of whoever it is they want and someone is yelling stop resisting stop resisting. All of these all of these are gimmicks you know you well you were read your miranda rights i mean im going to be in Court Next Week in camden new jersey for one of my teach in a prison one of my students arrested at the age of 14 put in a room with 3 detectives all night long forced to sign a confession that he committed a murder that he didnt commit because the detective told him it would take 10 years off a sense he goes in at 14 tried as an adult hes not eligible for parole until hes 70 years old this is a recent thing hearing were trying to push through this is common and so but the argument is youre read your miranda rights you know you were read your miranda rights you were alone in the room 20 minutes before the tape went on the confession you were told what to say and you said this is the experience of being a person of color poor person of color in this country and one of my frustrations with the media is that that reality and even the reality of the White Working Class which i come out of in maine is just not reflected at all its and that gets back to where we started its all a big carnival act its burlesque its vaudeville its a show and thats why the impeachment hearings have not moved a segment in fact theyve probably helped donald trump because however distasteful trump may be. The law is that he told are nothing compared to the lies the Democratic Party in the liberal elites told that created this oligarchy state vast social inequality and forms of pressure and lets never forget that it. Joe biden and bill quit who doubled the size of our prison population and the 1904 crime bill. Tripled and quadrupled senses including the 3 strikes youre out law so for 3 nonviolent offenses usually drug offenses were talking about low you can go to prison for the rest of your life this was the Democratic Party that is the Democratic Party about and were not going to and it was biden who bragged about how because there was a 10 year decade period we didnt execute anybody in this country how it was we went from one crime that a Death Penalty to 50 and he bragged about that on the campaign trail are going to say thank you so much chris always a pleasure having you on great words of wisdom to assault thank you. In the troubled 19 seventies a group. That was coordinated loyalists attacks on the population. Are forced to flee their homes. These attacks are you see the Police Actually took part in the attacks so instead of presenting they were active participants in the burning of coal streets in belfast take more than 100 innocent civilians with. If you can seniors and we found out more. About the extent to which the pollution was involved in some of those places. To be named. And were getting. Very very i think. The. Im going to fulfill it focuses possible to the people. You know weve all but the interest. Rate. Cut. You want to 1st. Know 5. Cut. During the Great Depression which old mr remember there was most of the family were unemployed. And it wasnt it was bed much worse subjectively than today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. And there was a real sense of hopefulness there isnt today todays america where shape by the 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power. Reduced democracy attacks. Engineer elections manufacture consent and other principle holds according to. One set of rules for the rich opposite set of rules from. Thats what happens when you put her into the. Narrow sector of will switch will is dedicated to increasing power for chills just as youd expect why. One of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. All right welcome back watchers the man who shot and killed 17 year old Trayvon Martin back in 2012 mr Neighborhood Watch him self George Zimmerman is back in the headlines again for a lawsuit that is almost too unbelievable to believe the Washington Post is reporting that zimmerman has filed a 100000000. 00 lawsuit wednesday against the teens family and a Publishing Firm and a Law Enforcement agency for defamation and malicious prosecution yes my friends George Zimmerman the man who shot and killed Trayvon Martin the man who dodged a guilty verdict by claiming a 17 year old with some skittles put him in such fear of his life that he had to gun him down is now suing the family whose child he snuffed out hes suing that them with 100000000. 00 the lead dependent in superman suit is Sabrina Fulton martins mother martins father tracy is also being named along with their lawyer ben crump publisher Harper Collins various members of the Prosecution Team and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement according to the Washington Post the lawsuit claims all defendants have worked in concert to deprive zimmerman of his constitution and other related legal rights so lets turn it over the panel was it all one big conspiracy against zimmerman was it a hoax that was built upon witness broad the frame him up to charge him for the Trayvon Martin just 1st of all i would like to see it doesnt bother me that Harper Collins was in this lawsuit because theyre the book come. I believe that wrote the defamation book on me with the Navy Seal Sniper yes so if they take Harper Collins as money i have no problem with that being a little tongue in cheek sarcastic but anyway getting back on this is so outrageous there is no judge in the world that isnt going to throw this out my opinion how could a judge at least i certainly would tell you any of the 73. 00 that i appointed while i was governor of minnesota would laugh right out of court i would freak thats whatll happen i hope thats what will happen to a deal i want to go to your what are your thoughts on mr zimmerman making headlines that. Hes a clown hes a coward hes an idiot hes a full every and any and everything that makes them up is the reason why people outside of america and a lot of people in america hate this country hes a joke like the whole idea that that this is even a thing is beyond discussed in this crazy its crazy hes out of his mind i dont even understand you know his whole story. You know his fame and what because its the same guy who was autographing bags of skittles and a gun conference this is how disgusting an evil this man is. You know i know sabrina and you know i know tracy and theyre great family and theyre good people and they lost their son and theyve been through a whirl of just pain and you have this clown out here playing what it is is the problem this is same thing what a person like trump you let these clowns run wow what ill stop him they may spiral out of control and look look at the mess we live in right now that is a good point he said i mean its a good lawsuit because i saw some pretty evil things about his very careful isms like he said also thank god he said thank god i never bumped and so. You have part of the problem is we have an issue with giving every paul blart want to be mall cop a gun in this country thats a huge problem 2nd of all my brother was murdered and going through the Legal Proceedings in a criminal investigation is devastating for the families involved and like everything they have to go through so he already got away with it and watching him sued the families like devastating for me to watch this is completely devastating its adding insult to injury its like you already lost a loved one why why come back and do this theres no reason for whatsoever he still looks you know mr Neighborhood Watch as we call him this is someone who is going to be honest twentys now who couldve been in college contributed into the betterment of society grown in a community and instead someone who thought that he went against the cops orders and trailed him further for no reason made a completely biased and races assumption on a person and took a life is like you know what 8 you guys hurt me like that if that doesnt make your blood well maybe youre not a human maybe youre a robot which is why trump probably would be best friends well you know and thats and its going to its like the a student he is obviously a social and i know for a fact it with doctors ive spoken to social pass cant be cured thats the one you know if you are one you are going to be one always and you develop and become one clearly thats what this. Because this is soul utterly ridiculous like i said i cant see this even any judge is going to look at this i would think and toss it immediately theres a question that i have thats interesting is that you know we talk about men like zimmerman in the other kind of as you do so these kind of clowns and people that weve seen over the years come up what what what is where is this coming from where are these people coming from that they believe that they can kind of get away with this and i want to what are your thoughts on that of like why you know how are we giving rise to these type of people you know their only other one i think i dont know yet even then but why but why is trump getting a rise you know i mean there is theres obviously something behind all of that and even that theres people who think oh my gosh someone who finally agrees what i believe is in a public light and because they say its ok i its ok for me to do and that thats just wrong this is wrong on so many levels 3 Justice System is incredibly broken he got away with it he got away with other things too you know he has a history with the law things that hes been accused of and gotten away with and thats just the society we live in sadly and we live in a Litigious Society you can sue anybody you want it does not mean youre going to win i really dont see him winning this case and no i dont either i mean its its pretty ridiculous lets go back to what he would say. Why are we seeing this you know rise the guys. You know you know at the end of the day its a win for of racist people its a win for people who hate oprahs people its a big win you know zimmerman who is of hispanic descent got a lot of praise from a whole lot of different races organizations and people in a rally around him hes their champion hes the regulus schmoe then and im going to hire him and im not going to be around him but they can cheer for him or they can go to the gun show again to send a little bag of skittles and its just sad s. S. And that gets of america as a knock against cultures and people who have different social contexts and its just its sad d and you know i agree with mr ventura any. Judge is going to look at this and he or she is just going to laugh and for what out but the fact that a lawyer would even consider it is is just you know they should be disbarred i want to bring in all or even or ject do you need to understand remember something the lawyers simply operate on money if youve got the money and you hand the lawyer the money and he just you know hes going to represent you and i long as you know theres a quote from. Zimmermans lawyer too that i want to reach its very interesting he said George Zimmerman seeks justice not just for himself but for all those others victimized by dishonest prosecutors who seek convictions to further their political and other unethical agendas to advance their careers what i found interesting about that quote is while zimmermans case in this particular example is a ludicrous example of that. The lawyer isnt lying there are a lot of district attorneys in this country a lot of prosecutors in this country who do for their cases and who do prosecute people dishonest lee bakley to my family same thing exactly you know so how do we how do we let lets take something as stupid and heinous as zimmermans issue but lets bring it over to the other discussion where like youre saying was you know how do we stay. These prosecutors from going after people and from putting their own career 1st as opposed to actually process executing the law it goes back to the system that we have we value money over everything people value getting further in their career having you know more Media Presence the fact that the stories even back in the news and he can get in his jabs to try to discredit the family in their defense because hes saying that they had false witness that alone just shows you how these people get away with it and until we start valuing something other than money and society theres no way we can fix it because everybody is just trying to crawl up to the top and of course that money funds them and lining their pockets in order to win you know district attorneys some of them thats what they want they want to become the next attorney general these are all political positions and you have to play a political game sometimes theyll just get a conviction because they want a conviction whether somebody is guilty or not because it looks good for them to have a 1000 convictions was one of the nurturer yeah its very do you know we got about 30 side i just want to do a quick well then thats from you ok well what doesnt help is when you make him the poster child for fighting the issue this is how you lose you lose it the issue when you make this clown the poster child of fighting for justice and for prosecutors to actually do their job the way its supposed to do their jobs they you and youve run up with this guy then you lose that 100000000. 00 out of hes never done anything in his life that has even warned him the extra 100000000. 00 for anything. Like that as this is a joke thats a great point thats a great point d. L. Want to thank you for specifically for coming out and there you go to run always a pleasure having you on the thank you very much my duty for your support for your contributions to a great start but you know when we look at this case it really i want to hit this last little bit to kind of plays off of this also is. I didnt do it in the. County in the state of new york recently they outlawed any behavior this is passed in this in this in this legislation that they all want any behavior that intends to annoy alarm or threaten the personal safety of on duty. Lease officers and other 1st responders many people are concerned by the term that they use there which was a noise police because thats a very very guitar how should we be annoyed by the vague language of you could be charged with annoying a Police Officer of course they fear someone who lives in a Minority Community they say are just you know making the annoying sound annoying is a a very vague definition because something i personally find annoying a cop may not find annoying vice versa so if someone from a community that is minority dominated they could find themselves in prison probably they could find themselves in the dicey legal situation and that will only further the problems we have within the Justice System that doesnt make it better is making it worse i just have to simply say how can simply be annoying be against the law already if we were started with every new york theyre going to start walking up people for being annoying. We better build a whole lot more prisons because half of the country can be annoying its true republicans are annoying right now a lot of Supreme Courts have upheld the publics right to be annoying and to harass police flip them off whatever its not illegal in many states according to their Supreme Court also look at sandra bland she was smoking a cigarette that was annoying to the cop and she ended up getting arrested on a charge of obstructing arrest or resisting arrest and she ended up dying by an alleged suicide you know theres a lot of questions about whether it was or wasnt she did have some emotional problem with the bottom line is she was smoking a cigarette and it pissed off the cop it was annoying to her was it illegal no its dangerous and you get into those things i want to thank my panel today just i dont want to see flipping the bird against the law well it shouldnt be against what i want to thank you from the world according to jesse this call was just the birds are averages of those thank you so much and are to america sports producer always a pleasure everybody thank you all right everybody that is our show for today remember in this world were about to tell the world up about so i tell you all the world mr keep on watching those hawks out there and a great lady. In the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through parts of Northern Ireland that was coordinated loyalists attacks a population of tens of thousands are forced to flee their homes to put these attacks was a p. R. You see the Police Actually took part in the attacks so instead of presenting they were active participants in the burning of the streets in belfast at the take more than a 100 innocent civilians were. Seniors and we found out more i was surprised about the extent. To which the collusion was involved in some of those cases that killers would later be named than a gang i think it went to the very very top i think it is. The water where all the taste you. Give the go ahead. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. 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