Thread: Nation of Laws/Lawlessness: America Policing Itself/World

Nation of Laws and Lawlessness: America is Policing Itself and the World

by Prof. John Kozy
Global Research, April 16, 2010

The peoples of the world are angry and are getting angrier. Samuel Bowles and Arjun Jayadev, in a piece published in 2004, claim that about one in four Americans, termed "guard workers," is employed to keep other people in line. I suspect the number is higher. The war on terror is fought by guard workers, the entire legal system and the entire homeland security apparatus consist of guard workers. Shouldn't someone be asking why Americans need so much protection?

Some years ago, the Mura Federal Building in Oklahoma City was blown to bits by an irate citizen. Recently, another irate citizen flew his airplane into a building in Austin, TX in which the offices of the IRS were located. The Washington Post reports that "Attacks on the Internal Revenue Service and its employees ... are common," and that armed escorts are being provided to IRS employees "at least once a week." In Las Vegas, a citizen who lost a lawsuit challenging a cut in his Social Security benefits used a shotgun to kill a security guard inside a federal courthouse. A gunman charged into one of the Pentagon's main entrances and opened fire and authorities are looking into his recent rants against the government as a potential motive. He is reported as having written, "The moral values of individuals and communities are increasingly attacked by a political system where deceit is routine and accepted and the only standard is power." A suburban Philadelphia woman has been indicted and accused of recruiting jihadist fighters and moving to Europe to try to kill a Swedish cartoonist. Authorities say it shows how the threat of terrorism is evolving. Threats to judges have become so widespread, that according to the AP, "Three quarters of the nation's 2,200 federal judges have asked for government-paid home security systems." Federal law enforcement officials are looking into at least two possible threats directed at members of Congress and their families. In Michigan, nine suspects tied to a Christian militia in the Midwest are charged with conspiring to kill police officers, then attack a funeral in the hopes of killing more. The people are so angry at Wall Street that Bloomberg reports that "Goldman [Sachs] people have loaded up on firearms and are now equipped to defend themselves."

Once beloved worldwide, the U.S. government finds itself reviled in most countries. According to the Sunday Herald, the Pentagon has admitted that Muslims do not hate our freedoms, but rather, they hate our policies and that it is "equally important to renew European attitudes towards America which have also been severely damaged."

Americans, unfortunately, believe that they can hire enough guard workers to protect them from all of this anger. Dave Lindorff writes, "The deliberate suicide crash bombing by a domestic terrorist pilot of a small plane into an IRS building in Austin [requires] Congress to move quickly to tighten up security and control over small planes." But guarding everything is impossible and how can the guard workers themselves be prevented from eventually getting angry? They are, after all, not the owners of the what's being guarded.

Why are people so angry? Bowles and Jayadev cite “conflicts between classes, ethnic or racial groups, and political factions,â€

Prof. vortex here. It AIN'T Mura office building. It was the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Do a little research before spouting, please, Prof.