Britain has purchased a bunch of water cannons to use on its citizens should they decide to protest the dismantling of their social safety nets or otherwise wholesale looting of their wages, pensions, education, health care and housing.
(Here in the U.S. law enforcement doesn't pussy foot around with water cannons. Police departments have tanks.)
This would be the first time ever that Britain has employed these devices. More humane, perhaps, than teargas and rubber bullets or outright head smashing with batons some would say. What's not humane or moral or just is the policy of granting massive welfare benefits to the rich and big business in the form of tax breaks, privatizations and interest payments.
Let's also not forget the total immunity that is given to the financial predators (i.e. the entire class of finance capitalists) who are routinley caught rigging markets, trading on inside information or, blowing up the economy with outrageous speculative bets, leaving poor stiff working class British taxpayers on the hook. (Some of the very same taxpayers who will be on the receiving end of those water cannons.)
And, yes, the spending cuts and austerity "needed" to make the predators whole are nothing more than tax increases on the working class and poor.
But, hey, at least those downtrodden masses won't be dirty. They'll get a nice shower from the water cannons.
"Plato and Aristotle define a tyrant as, "one who rules without law, looks to his own advantage rather than that of his subjects, and uses extreme and cruel tactics—against his own people as well as others"
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrant
The whole west seems to be under a lawless tyranny...
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