Legal Dictators in Michigan ?

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1. Jon Awbrey says:

   December 6, 2012 at 3:47 pm

   Turtle City?

   Is that anywhere near Raccoon City?

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   • 2old2tch says:

     December 6, 2012 at 9:01 pm

     No, it’s closer to St. Salamander.

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2. Mark Collins says:

   December 6, 2012 at 3:55 pm

   This is a more direct link to the article Diane mentions.

   http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/333922/michigans-fight-legal-dictators-continues-michael-auslin

   Like DR said, it is a provocative article. Now, I wonder if Rick and his crew would support these laws and similar measures if the governor was a Democrat or an Independent. Well, Governor Snyder?

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3. Ken Mortland says:

   December 6, 2012 at 4:02 pm

   Turtle city over…. I’m thinking you meant that as a metaphor and it’s not a typo. 🙂

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4. Sharon says:

   December 6, 2012 at 4:38 pm

   Legal dictators for poor communities in the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world, where the incarcerated are kept in increasingly privatized prisons which have figured out how to make additional profits by using their prisoners for cheap labor.
   http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_pri_per_cap-crime-prisoners-per-capita

   Not to mention our high child poverty rate, along with the escalating use of surveillance in this country.
   http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/

   But no peep about this assemblage of trends from hardly any of our leaders. Nice.

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   • jcgrim says:

     December 7, 2012 at 8:50 am

     I wonder how many of our prisoners were identified as having an educational disability when they were in school?
     Exclusion and institutional triage is becoming the norm, not the exception thanks to privatization. The school to prison pipeline (STPP) modernizes institutionalization for disadvantaged and disabled youth. According to an article by Houchins & Shippen (2012) the special education institutions of the past are eerily similar to juvenile justice systems of today. I predict charters that routinely exclude children with disabilities into the public schools will accelerate this disgraceful trend.

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5. Linda says:

   December 6, 2012 at 5:08 pm

   Diane,

   Sorry to hijack this post.. From Rheefirst.com:

   The synergy between StudentsFirst and News Corp’s education privatization
   Joel Klein is a busy guy. When he isn’t putting the ole rubber stamp on documents at StudentsFirst board meetings, or advising Rupert Murdoch on how to handle the investigation into phone hacking at News Corp., Joel Klein is running Rupert Murdoch’s education privatization arm.

   A recent presentation by Klein shows how seamlessly you can go from StudentsFirst talking points (pages 7 through 9) to explaining how much of the $673 billion dollar education “market” you plan on siphoning off (page 57).

   Click to access Amplify_UBS_PresentationDec2012.pdf

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6. Duane Swacker says:

   December 6, 2012 at 6:23 pm

   Corporate takeover of government = fascism

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   • chemtchr says:

     December 6, 2012 at 8:51 pm

     No, a corporate takeover isn’t fascism yet. Here is a classic 1935 definition of fascism which stood the test of history in the previous century:
     “Fascism is the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital.”
     http://www.marxists.org/reference//archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm

     While there have always been fascist elements in the US (think of the KKK and local police in the segregated South), we aren’t there yet, as a nation. And yet, the danger is real, so we should be clear about it. Here is the reason the Marxists gave for the collapse of parliamentary corporate control into open, illegal terrorism:

     “The imperialist circles are trying to shift the whole burden of the crisis onto the shoulders of the working people. That is why they need fascism.
     They are trying to solve the problem of markets by enslaving the weak nations, by intensifying colonial oppression and repartitioning the world anew by means of war. That is why they need fascism.”

     We probably should look again at Dimitrov’s report to the 7th Congress of the Communist International, which outlines the left’s strategy of building a united front against fascism with all democratic
     forces who could stand against it.

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