MSNBC-TV showed video today about the New Mexico State Police terrorizing a family over an alleged speeding violation. The family consisted of a woman and several children. The police broke windows, fired shots, bullied, threatened, screamed at, and forced the woman and her kids to the ground, but naturally it is the family that is under charges instead of the police that acted unlawfully. In a different case, in Washington D.C. several weeks ago, police officers fired shots at and killed a woman because her car rammed a barricade and she tried to get away, but they had no idea whether the ramming was intentional or accidental, nor did they care. They used brute force against her rather than to simply capture and arrest her. This is barbarism, and these are hardly isolated cases in the U.S. Not only are top officers and officials of the defense establishment, which systematically brutalizes civilians in foreign adventures, and top officials of the N.S.A., which spies on law-abid
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