what's the point of linking external and internal killings by the PTB? Or by a crazed gunman? One person with an automatic can wreak havoc and so can a drone strike?

Year after year, people have suggested that if only were punish people more harshly, things will get better. So we pass harsh laws like "Three strikes and your out," that cause people to spend much of their lives in jail. All along the way, we tend to let off good looking white boys, but we focus all of our policing onto poor blacks. Now every step of the way that we do this, things get worse.

We imprison more people, and parts of our cities become war zones. The economy gets worse as career criminals find it impossible to pursue any other vacation and more and more of our budget is spent in prisons. The desperate men who know that they are targets of choice occasionally kill a policeman, and at that moment, finally, we are offended.

Meanwhile we send our military out literally across the war. What we are doing is literally unprecedented in world history. No other Empire has ever brought this much death to this many countries for this long.

Its amazing just how far we will go now to prevent spending money on our infrastructure. It's like we will do anything but that.

I don't think any of it is disconnected anymore.