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[https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/war-comes-home by ACLU 9/4/15] | [https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/war-comes-home by ACLU 9/4/15] | ||
All across the country, heavily armed SWAT teams are raiding people’s homes in the middle of the night, often just to search for drugs. It should enrage us that people have needlessly died during these raids, that pets have been shot, and that homes have been ravaged. | All across the country, heavily armed SWAT teams are raiding people’s homes in the middle of the night, often just to search for drugs. It should enrage us that people have needlessly died during these raids, that pets have been shot, and that homes have been ravaged. | ||
=====Master of American Propaganda===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/the-great-war-master-of-american-propaganda/ by Nicholas J. Cull PBS] | |||
In 1917, on the brink of the U.S. entry into the Great War, a man named George Creel wrote a letter to President Woodrow Wilson. Creel was a journalist who had dabbled in politics, most notably as the Commissioner of Police in Denver, where he earned national attention for his efforts to clamp down on police brutality and prostitution. He thought highly of Wilson. In 1912, Creel had campaigned for the future president in Colorado; in 1916, he’d written a book supporting his re-election. | |||
