Progressive President (cont’d).

Via Anthony Gregory and Keith Taylor Of course the NSA’s spying has been used to prosecute U.S.-American drug cases. Every single fascist National Security monitoring program, surveillance policy, financial regulation and executive power that has been created over the last 20 years in the name of “counter-terrorism,” including large sections of Clinton’s AEDPA and Bush Jr.’s PATRIOT Act, has repeatedly been utilized by the DEA to gather evidence and coerce testimony in drug cases. Every single National Security state program, regardless of its alleged purpose, has been used to double down on the federal government’s insane and destructive prosecution of a “War on Drugs.” This one is no different. Even if there were such a thing as a limited National Security state– a way to create a counter-terrorism-only police state, which would focus on a single threat without creating a general, all-powerful police state in the process– it would still mean shredding civil liberties, targeting people and activities which ought to be presumed innocent, and it would still be destructive and wrong. But, in any case, there is no such thing. There is no way to focus a police state on only one group of people or one part of life; there are no partial or limited police states. There is only a police state– one which will come for you sooner, or later.

t/w Eldritch horror, ultradimensional realm of nameless terror

Lease, ended. All worldly possessions, moved across town.

Black Power Mixtape 1967 – 1975. The contemporary interviews run over the action a bit too much, and the footage is definitely shaped by whatever random things Swedish documentary crews happened to be interested in in black American communities at any given point over an 8 year period (so, e.g., we lurch from the trial of Angela Davis to a long, muddled section of early 70s anti-drug panic stories). Doesn’t matter. See it anyway; for the footage of Stokeley Carmichael, Angela Davis and Lewis H. Michaux, if nothing else. http://blackpowermixtape.com/

A post from earlier this year @ Rad Geek People’s Daily [radgeek.com], re-posted to-day at C4SS.

In Escambia County, Florida, unarmed 60-year-old men can be shot 15 times because they “did not comply” with police. The sheriff’s department that runs rampage in Escambia County Florida says that this is all according to “standard protocols.” If this was all by the book, what’s that tell you about the book? ‘On Thursday, Morgan defended the officers’ actions as standard procedure because Middleton “did not comply.” Asked by CNN’s Chris Cuomo how police could justify 15 shots at a 60-year-old man, Morgan said the officers saw a metallic object in Middleton’s hand as he made a “lunging movement” toward them. Middleton explained this in his account: He turned around because he thought the entire thing was a practical joke played by a neighbor. ‘“Right now we are comfortable from a training perspective that our officers did follow standard protocols,” Morgan said. . . .’