ok,

as long as you don't join the CCP, or start calling me comrade.

The knee on the neck arrest is practised by several States by Police and banned in others. The controversial knee-to-neck move, was used by the officer charged with killing George Floyd in Minneapolis. Seattle Police also use the knee on the neck arrests. Seattle politics as are Minneapolis are generally dominated by the liberal wing of the Democratic Party; in some local elections, Greens.

It is reported in some Media that intifa have been bussing in protesters to the violence against Police and causing destruction.

I've just read an interesting article on the web
that puts another slant onto things and gives another
perspective on the causes of what's happening in the US.

We're told that perhaps the closest thing to a common
cause can be summed up by one word - "injustice".

Justice seems to be the one word on about all the protesters
lips and written on the many placards they wave in the air.

This is a nation where 2.3 million people are locked up
in a system of corporatised incarceration funded by the
taxpayer.

This is a nation where the wealth gap between white and
black Americans hasn't changed in 60 years. It's where the
bottom 40% of Americans own just 0.3% of the wealth and
40 million are out of work.

American taxpayers bailed out the very Wall Street bankers
and traders who brought financial ruin upon them in 2008
only to see them hold parties and reap multi-million
dollar bonuses. Some of the looters and demonstrators
say they learned to loot from corporate America.

This is a nation that has such little faith in the system
that many Americans voted fro Trump in order to tear
the system down (Drain the Swamp). Therefore the seething
anger was already there - especially after 2 months of
lockdown - it was ripe to burst open. For many it just
needed a cause. The murder of the black man by the police
officer - gave it to them.

"Eat The Rich" scrawled in graffiti across smashed up
businesses seems to make that clear.

//So who do you prefer? Me, Ricky or Dave?//

Well definitely one of the latter two, since they are talented comedians who can grasp the difference between a telling a good joke and just dribbling shite all over the forum.

Foxy,

Could you put that into just a couple of sentences? How about just saying the riots are the result of ongoing social inequalities and class antagonisms in an America that has been marked by political, economic, social and cultural divisions that can be traced back to the post-independence period.

How's that? Is that what you're trying to say?

Toni Lavis,

You really are a killjoy!

Just for that you are now on the List!