<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for TVA watchdogs arrested, harassed]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by randino http://www.grist.org/article/Bull-Connor-lives-/ Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:52:27 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/Bull-Connor-lives-/1 Brought to you by 40 years of law and order,

and eight years of anti-terrorism hysteria.

The result is a toxic atmosphere for dissent. We have police departments that do not hesitate to make mass arrests of demonstrators regardless of the pretext. The goal is not to make a case in court. The goal is to suppress dissent.

Everyone has meekly agreed to free speech zones at such events as political conventions. No one so much as notices mass arrests of the press at such events. When a political convention comes to town the bill of rights goes out the window.

We have draconian security laws such as the Ohio Patriot Act, which has chilled the atmosphere for dissent or any form of civil disobediance in the state, because to do is to risk being charged with a felony and your organization being declared a RICO type organization.

In ways large and small, we have become like the proverbial boiled frog. Today we live in a soft police state. The bill of rights had might as well be printed on toilet paper. That way it would be of some use.  

Randy Cunningham
Cleveland, OH

Randy Cunningham


]]> Brought to you by 40 years of law and order,

and eight years of anti-terrorism hysteria.

The result is a toxic atmosphere for dissent. We have police departments that do not hesitate to make mass arrests of demonstrators regardless of the pretext. The goal is not to make a case in court. The goal is to suppress dissent.

Everyone has meekly agreed to free speech zones at such events as political conventions. No one so much as notices mass arrests of the press at such events. When a political convention comes to town the bill of rights goes out the window.

We have draconian security laws such as the Ohio Patriot Act, which has chilled the atmosphere for dissent or any form of civil disobediance in the state, because to do is to risk being charged with a felony and your organization being declared a RICO type organization.

In ways large and small, we have become like the proverbial boiled frog. Today we live in a soft police state. The bill of rights had might as well be printed on toilet paper. That way it would be of some use.  

Randy Cunningham
Cleveland, OH

Randy Cunningham


]]> Comment #2 by Wolverine http://www.grist.org/article/Bull-Connor-lives-/ Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:12:45 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/Bull-Connor-lives-/2 TVA Does Disservice To Public Power

The TVA should be taken over by the federal government.  Unfortunately, the people of the southeast U.S., from slavery on, have shown that they're not morally competent to be in charge of their own affairs.  The TVA is a horribly bad actor in the public power arena, where some of us are trying to get our communities to go.  This must be a southern thing in general; LADWP is pretty evil, too.

]]> TVA Does Disservice To Public Power

The TVA should be taken over by the federal government.  Unfortunately, the people of the southeast U.S., from slavery on, have shown that they're not morally competent to be in charge of their own affairs.  The TVA is a horribly bad actor in the public power arena, where some of us are trying to get our communities to go.  This must be a southern thing in general; LADWP is pretty evil, too.

]]> Comment #3 by snk http://www.grist.org/article/Bull-Connor-lives-/ Mon, 04 May 2009 00:43:31 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/Bull-Connor-lives-/3 TVA is important for ecomonical stability of the society

For most common reasons people are against TVA that is taken by federal goverment, but without TVA the economy of the states will fall. If nobody pais TVA that`s ok, but in some years we will pay 1000$ for a bred and some milk. It is not that the state don`t give us money and wants us to be slaves, it is that the money are spent in a wrong way. For example Viagra is soled 80% on the internet stores and nobody pais TVA for this trasactions, and us goverment is ok with it. For some reason if you want to buy viagra you google it, and taxes are not paid, but we are talking about TVA slavery..

]]> TVA is important for ecomonical stability of the society

For most common reasons people are against TVA that is taken by federal goverment, but without TVA the economy of the states will fall. If nobody pais TVA that`s ok, but in some years we will pay 1000$ for a bred and some milk. It is not that the state don`t give us money and wants us to be slaves, it is that the money are spent in a wrong way. For example Viagra is soled 80% on the internet stores and nobody pais TVA for this trasactions, and us goverment is ok with it. For some reason if you want to buy viagra you google it, and taxes are not paid, but we are talking about TVA slavery..

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