The View From Afar
Because almost all of the US national news outlets are tools of the corporations that own them, and bend reality to fit with the official ‘vision’ of their masters, I get my information from foreign sources. A side benefit is that you get reporting that does not automatically accept the ‘conventional wisdom’ in the US.
The CBC opinion piece on what has been happening in Baltimore goes right to core of the problem: Police killings are the real state of emergency. As a Canadian Mr. MacDonald doesn’t believe that police officers shooting people is normal.
In his piece for the BBC Jon Sopel looks at efficacy of riots in making a point. He points out that most people only remember Ferguson and Baltimore, as if all of the other unarmed people killed by police officers didn’t exist.
If you go back to the run up the Iraq invasion there were huge anti-war demonstrations that most people in the US knew nothing about, because the US media didn’t cover them. What is the point of having thousands of people march in protest if they are the only people who know the protest took place. History is distorted by claims that ‘everyone’ supported the invasion, when that is patently untrue.
If we want to prevent riots, why don’t we do something about the police using unarmed people for target practice.
April 29, 2015 8 Comments
