There has been a lot of brewhaha about a British court finding that Vladimir Putin may have poisoned a former citizen of Russia for creating propaganda that rankled the Russian state. While there is a lot of talk about how awful Putin is for (allegedly) assassinating people, there seems to be little mention of the fact that President Barack Obama maintains a "Kill List" of intended targets for assassinations. It should also be noted that Obama has assassinated one American citizen (out of the four us citizens he's admitted murdering) on the rationale that he was creating propaganda that rankled the American state. Then, two weeks after murdering the propagandist, Obama murdered a sixteen year old kid for the crime of having the wrong parents. This is not to overlook the thousands of civilians that Mr. Obama and his predecessor have murdered.

So far no court has seen fit to examine Mr. Obama's many war crimes.

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, however, makes Putin look like a piker in terms of malevolent dictators.

Snyder has abused the power of his office by replacing the elected governments of six cities with feudal lords hand picked by Snyder and accountable only to him.

Snyder has chosen to disenfranchise communities that are predominantly african-american and poor while not applying the draconian methods to white communities in similar circumstances, offering Americans another blatant example of institutional racism.

Snyder and his feudal lords care naught for the well-being of citizens of color or the poor and have used the power of their offices to impose a racist, classist reign of terror on those least capable of resisting their foul, ideologically driven campaign to deregulate, disenfranchise and steal the resources of a city to give to their rich crony friends.

The process works as described in this article:

In order to wrap your head around this, you have to understand the privatization model:

• defund public institutions that could be used to generate profits
• screech about how the public institutions are falling apart
• save the day with a call to privatize the public institutions so they can be run by Big Business for a profit and of course, increase spending to the Big Businesses back to the level it should have been kept to start with.

Otherwise known as:

• problem (create one)
• reaction (oh my goodness, WONT SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN)
• solution ($$$$$)

This is the neoliberal model. Just look at what we do in all those countries we save with our humanitarian bombing campaigns. Look at what we are bombing in Syria. Public infrastructure. Public water systems. Electric grids. Pipelines.

Rick Snyder. A dictator worse than Putin. 10 dead so far, 100,000 poisoned, quite plausibly due to what can at best be described as criminal negligence. He's still walking around, collecting a big paycheck from the job he abuses and there's no accountability in sight.

Makes you proud to be an American, don't it?