overcoming various state gun-control laws appears to be at the heart of Mercer’s previously unreported dabbling in Lake Arthur’s law enforcement. In 2004, Congress passed the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act, declaring that police officers can carry concealed guns in any state without the need of a local license. The law applies to off-duty officers who are out of their jurisdictions, including volunteers. As a result, the volunteer police badge became an alluring accessory for gun enthusiasts, especially in areas that seldom grant concealed-carry permits—areas like Suffolk County, where Mercer lives. Since the law was enacted, some police departments around the country (dubbed “badge factories” by insiders) have been said to swap badges for cash, or hand them out to friends...The new Jim Crow. Exalted orcs only, helots must use "separate but equal" law.
“If you look at the map of the United States, there’s all that red in the middle where Trump won. I win the coasts. But what the map doesn’t show you is that I won the places that represent two-thirds of America’s gross domestic product (GDP). So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward” - Hillary Clinton, last week (emphasis added).
That was Hillary Goldman Sachs-Council on Foreign Relations Clinton saying “fuck you very much” to working- and middle-class people in Iowa, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Missouri, Indiana, and West Virginia. It was a raised middle finger from a super-wealthy arch-global-corporatist to all the supposedly pessimistic, slow-witted. retrograde losers stuck between those glorious enclaves (led by Wall Street, Yale, and Harvard on the East coast and Silicon Valley and Hollywood on the West coast) of human progress and variety (and GDP!) on the imperial shorelines.
Wow. Call it “Deplorables II.: The Wall Street Witch Strikes Again!”
