Policing Battle Ground USA

Hypocrisy is in the news a lot lately. Unfortunately most of it relates to the sex life of Newt Gingrich and not the real hypocritical issues, such as states having rights. Republicans contend that states have rights and should decide for themselves whether or not they have to comply with the mandatory purchase of health insurance.

In Vermont, the state legislature passed a law prohibiting pharmacies from selling prescription information to pharmaceutical corporations. The view of the state is that the prescribing information belongs to the physician and the physician has the right to decide whether or not to sell this information. The Supreme Court over ruled the state, saying the decision violated free speech.

The people in the state of California voted to ban sale of violent video games to anyone under 18. The Supreme Court over ruled the voters and tossed out the state mandate.

When the state of Georgia passed laws protecting citizens from unethical lending practices, the federal government over ruled them, saying federal laws prevailed over state laws.

In matters of corporations and banks the federal government decides. With the federal government outsourcing our wars to military contractors, and the SJC’s allegiance to the rights of corporations over states, declaring the US a battleground is all the more disconcerting. Will the federal government over rule the states to team up with corporations as a means of policing the new battleground USA?

Where is the Republican outcry against this assault on laws protecting states from the unconstitutionality of military law imposed by the federal government?

And this is not to be construed as a defense for Democrats, they’ve been silent on this abominable declaration that the US is now a battlefield, it’s just easier to point out Republican hypocrisy on this issue.

In the end, both Republicans and Democrats are paid off to support military contractors along with the collusion of the federal government with corporations as a means of providing services, including policing the streets of America; building prisons and using the police to fill them to capacity and beyond.