The interesting thing...

...about crime is that it started with the founding of our nation.

Some "founding fathers" were slaveholders.

The US grew through the Louisiana Purchase, yes. What does that mean... just transferring title to some vacant land?

Or did that mean the forced ethnic cleansing of America of its native Indians so white cracker settlers could settle down?

How odd.

Now, have you ever worked in a prison ministry? Met the so-called criminials incarcerated in American for-profit jails on trumped up marijuana charges?

The real criminals are the wealthy people of this country who leach off the rest of us.

The executives of Citibank, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Blackwater, Corrections Corporation of America, ExxonMobil, Chevron.

The lowest income tax on the planet: US corporate tax rate.

We pay taxes on income: wages, and items we buy: sales tax. Nobody pays taxes on wealth. No wonder we are depending on $500 Billion to $1 Trillion per year in dirty money (from hard "illegal" drug sales) laundered through our largest banks to fund the US Government and Wall Street and thus our 401ks/mutual funds.

Wealth: held in large families with names like Vanderbilt, JP Morgan, Hilton, Gates, Buffet, Soros, Bush, etc.

Anything made illegal becomes VERY EXPENSIVE. See: Prohibition: liquor became a black market. And now we have the same with heroin from Afghanistan, crack from Columbia, etc.
The CIA according to the CIA's Inspector General in 1998 noted that the CIA brought drugs into the US to sell in inner cities, to funnel back into Iran-destabilization schemes.

Learn more about organized crime, real cost economics, financial market manipulation, how shit really works in the US and the world... altogether "Tapeworm Economics" of a centralized , imperial system.

Navigate the Falling Dollar
--video presentation by Catherine Austin Fitts

Money Matters
--blog by Elaine Supkis

Clusterfuck Nation
--blog by James Howard Kunstler


None of this is to refute Oakland's crying need for effective police--but more than this, Oakland's families need manufacturing jobs to pay for increasingly expensive food and energy and shelter, while this country exported nearly all its manufacturing jobs to cheap-labor countries over the past three decades. And now white collar jobs are being exported as well.

Good luck, Oakland.

Let's consume less. Invest in our community--small business loans, local production, arts and education.