The end result of the very public tasing death in Vancouver, BC will probably be the end of RCMP policing in British Columbia and replacement by a new provincial police force, and severe restrictions on the use of tasers by the police.

Why not the same in the US? A rampant authoritarian movement, fostered and enabled by the corporate media and the Republican party. These traitors are determined to destroy all that is good in America and replace it with a system where everyone is either a jailer or in jail. Tasers are an essential part of their program, which also includes the War on Drugs and the Church of the Anti-Christ.

I suspect it all started with slavery, since the movement is the strongest in the South. Why didn't you guys cut the cracker retards loose instead of letting them take over the country?

We can buy two "flavors" of Dr Bronners in bulk for $4 a pound at our local Co-op. No wasted bottles, and a quart lasts me about 6 months.

Long hair tangles? Yes - Dr. Bronners is soap, and doesn't have the added stuff to make your hair shiny and slippery - but rinse and brush daily, and long hair thrives with the good doctor.

I use it to brush my teeth when traveling, but toothpaste just tastes better. And there's nothing like a full Dr. Bronners sink bath, inhaling the minty vapors to clear your sinuses, and then washing down with a brisk towel rub, to refresh a weary roadster.

There is a very simple solution to Corporate poison - don't fucking buy their shit! This includes Big Macs, CNN, and steroidal vehicles (hummer, Titan, Dickmobile, etc.).

They are cowards, and need to remain so to keep their jobs (which makes them both more understandable and morally worse).

I actually agree with the ultra-fringe wingers (and Osama)- the Father of All Lies rules the federal government.

The duty of the just is to oppose evil, right?

as are all evil forces. Obama is human, and functions within a circle. That circle occupies the same corrupt space as Bush's circle - and wants the same things.

I don't have a clue how to change the dynamic of a corrupted power center of the richest nation on the earth - as corrupt, I think, as that of any banana republic.

But thanks to Messrs. Greenwald and Krugman for exposing the corrupt calculations behind the propaganda. Obama is simply a politician, wants to be loved, wants to be in charge, doesn't want to bite the hand that feeds him. He's on the payroll, not our payroll, whether we like it or not. (Who likes this? The paymasters......). I agree with Glenn that the only way to make Obama do what he promised to do is to demonstrate, forcefully, that he will not be reelected otherwise.

Otherwise all that will have been created is another mammoth transfer of public wealth into private hands, and yet another step down the road to a fascist state.

Better to kill a corrupt bill than to meekly accept corrupt "compromise" - corporate interests win again and the people lose.

If you're really from Canada, and have experienced Canadian medicare, how could you support the corporatist profiteer version of universal healthcare, costing at least 20% more than single payer? How could you support $12 million dollar paydays for insurance bureaucrats?

When the braying mob accuses sensible people of being "socialists", what they're really saying is "I am a fascist". I'd rather be pink anyday than wear a fucking brown shirt.

I think this is deep in American culture - the excess respect given to and expected by people in power positions. Authoritarianism doesn't take well to criticism. Contrast this to the Brit House of Commons question period - can you imagine an American president having to stand up to 3 or 4 hours of answering his critics, in public and on TV, each week?

This tendency also underlies the disrespect shown by the media for the "crazies of the left" - they are critical and complaining and not sufficently deferential.

Deep deep social problems in this here corporate state.

They've done such a good job of divide and rule. When the alternative to the Democrats is so pernicious, people will vote for the lesser evil - the good cops on the corporate payroll. (if you can consider the abjectly corrupt like Max Baucus and Joe Lieberman to be good cops).

Thanks, Glenn, for continuing to expose how compromised and duplicitous and utterly corrupt our federal government is. It's the mirror image of the ex-soviet ex-government; when will our Berlin wall fall? When people stand together and collectively refuse to support the corruption and stop buying their shit.

But collective action is so demonized and suppressed, unless it's in support of the corporate agenda like the T-Bag dupes. And the corporate sanctioned and incited atomisation of community institutions (unions, cooperatives, look how snidely they refer to Obama's "community organizer" credentials) in favor of the creed of alienated individualism has so infected people at a deep level that it is clearly a long and arduous battle.

Keep up the fight - I've got work to do and then I'm going sailing. Passive resistance is still resistance.

Don't Buy Their Shit! Starve the Beast! Freedom......

Or are you making the case for revolution?

The Don't Buy Their Shit revolution.

DBTS!

Only passive revolution is possible in a police state.

Because they see it as supporting the troops? Or is there some other agenda, perhaps?

Is it the cruelty of the Roman mob in the last days of the Empire, bread and circuses and mercenary troops and commissioned tax collectors?

Or is it the siren song of the parasite, lulling its host while sucking its life juices?

Excellent article at Truthout by Henry Giroux - "Living in a Culture of Cruelty":

http://www.truthout.org/090209R