How does one even respond to a President who would fire on protestors to clear a path for him to wave a Bible in front of a church?
America has plunged into a reflex of rage fed by police brutality, 40mllion unemployed & a pandemic that has killed over 100 000.
It’s a United States of Pain erupting at a President who has spent 4 years sowing seeds of hate and bigotry.
The brutality American cops have shown in the last weekend policing the riots their brutality sparked is a sick nightmare America can’t wake up from.
All global citizens of conscience can not see the spasm of violence in the United States and not feel a terrible sadness and incandescent rage.
New Zealand has an obligation to step in and formally request the presence of the American Ambassador and state our shock and grief to see human rights abused so nakedly by another democracy.
What is happening in America is unacceptable, and we have a moral obligation to object to it.
History is watching us.
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Dah dah dah…..will Ardern actually speak out; will Trump even care.
What a horrible time.
Certainly Trump wouldn’t care, which is exactly why America is in the mess it’s in. Americans sadly brought this on themselves when they elected a narcissist.
I have to agree with you Bert re the election of Trump. That said, it’s a very sad situation in the US at the present time. Where it will end or what the outcome will be, is anyone’s guess. Can only hope a positive change is coming.
It wasn’t the American people that got Trump in, it was the electoral colleges, Hilary got the majority of the American peoples’ votes
I recently heard a fabulous interview with a musician who lives in Iceland where being gay has never ever attracted detrimental comment. He talked about how relaxed he now is and he can’t imagine ever moving back to the states. The thing that really struck me was his comment
‘in America you can smell the rage’.
I am sure I can smell it from this far. I am pleased the 3 cops have been charged in the Hawera case perhaps this could be the start of some change here.
The “victim” had taken 52 Panadol tabs plus alcohol, was unconscious on arrival.
And the cause of death was through unnecessary pressure on the victim’s carotid artery, through the officer keeping his knee in place for almost nine minutes, thereby preventing oxygen being carried by the blood to the brain and other vital organs.
My comment is for the Hawera case.
You need to position your comments better GreenBus and note who or what they relate to.
US imperialism is rotting from the head down. The situation is pre-revolutionary because there is a huge divide between rotten capitalism and the base of humanity represented by the best of the youth, workers and minorities that rejects a future of barbarism and extinction. And the fight is on.
https://redrave.blogspot.com/2020/06/justice-for-george-floyd-justice-for.html
Worrying time will be after November when the group with the guns doesn’t accept the result of the election.
The Germans had been showing vile treatment to Jews a long time before 1939. If the USA want to save their nation, they will have to stop this organised outpouring of vileness on blacks now before the hatred is embedded further. Hitler used hard tactics to enforce his opinions when he got into a position of power. A lot of people will do what they are told from authority, and particularly when it becomes oppressive. There are examples of a breakdown of law and order by authorities in the USA already with Border Patrol assuming powers outside those normally applying. It is a worry seeing that I had been brought up to believe that the USA was the good country with occasional lapses. Whereas now the opposite seems the case, and even the past seems patchy.
Agreed!!The “good old boys” with military grade automatics will cause havoc. The US is now a failed state!its going to get ugly.
Martyn, America is a decadent society, characterized by moral and cultural decline.
Bread and Circuses OR in America’s modern context, Opioids and Virtual Reality. Yes 10’s of millions are out of work, yet people are accidentally throwing their stimulus visa-debit-cards away.
Experts in their field are less respected than Celebrities – a ‘class’ of people whom are more-or-less worshiped.
Economically, as reflected culturally .. wealth is considered a black-visa-card with no spending limited. You’ve ‘made it’ when you’re driving a lambo.
Though still issuer of the World-Reserve-Currency, America’s mismanagement is perfectly reflected in Hertz .. to cut a long story sort:
– Hertz is going bankrupt, EVERYBODY including the Federal Reserve know’s it.
– The ticker symbol to buy Hertz derivatives/bonds is ‘JNK’ aka JUNK.
– The Fed starts buying Hertz-JUNK-Bonds, why?? .. well, crony capitalism – the rich were invested in hedge funds which owned this junk.
Their’s is a decadent society. The nexus between the business class and political class enables their out-of-touch rich to gorge, opioid and be merry while America burns.
Like they care what we have to say. This is nothing new Rodney King, MLK, much the same thing happened and will keep on happening.
You missed Malcolm X, sean.
Malcolm X certainly smelled the bullshit that white liberals were shovelling: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a5HyL6QNGbM
It seems history does just repeat.
Taika Waititi discovered how black Americans don’t like being patronised with the twitter backlash to his latest virtue signal.
There has never been any rap over the knuckles for the Israeli embassy here in NZ in relation to the Horrific treatment of Palestinians . ( makes whats happening in the US now look like a Christmas party in a kindergarten. so I don’t think our spineless Government will say anything because they’re simply not us.
“All global citizens of conscience can not see the spasm of violence in the United States and not feel a terrible sadness and incandescent rage.”
People of my age, who have been paying attention to what goes on in the world, have seen all of this in the US before. Many, many times. One could with equal justification have made the above statement about what was happening in the US pretty much at any time during the 1960s. And numerous times since. See this:
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/06/01/25-years-of-cn-a-distant-echo-on-race-and-police-aug-24-2017/
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