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Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) said on Wednesday that if Eric Garner had been healthier, he would not have died after a police officer placed him in a chokehold.
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re: “Blue Privilege” Protects the Killer of Eric Garner
Thomas DiLorenzo
Eric Garner, father of six, was simply standing on a sidewalk selling individual cigarettes to pedestrians. The local merchants, who sell cigarettes by the pack and therefore must charge New York state’s exorbitant cigarette tax, complained to the authorities about this “unfair competition.” The government sent six heavily armed tax collection enforcers . . . er, I mean, police officers . . . to accost Mr. Garner. They took him down and murdered him by choking him to death. The coroner ruled the death a homicide. The “grand jury” does what grand juries always do — they let the cops off with no penalty at all. Death by tax collector would be more accurate.
Deprive the state of . . . what — three or four bucks of tax revenue — and they may send armed men to kill you.
I’m old enough to remember how conservatives used to criticize the totalitarian governments of the Soviet Union, Cuba, and China, among others, for executing people on the street for committing “economic crimes against the state.” Conservatives today are either silent about this or actually defend the murderous, out-of-control cops. Eric Garner was murdered in cold blood, in public, for allegedly committing the “economic crime against the state” of selling tax-free cigarettes.
8:12 pm on December 3, 2014 Email Thomas DiLorenzo
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Selling cigarettes to minors I understand but as far as I can determine he purchased the packs legally and was selling them off as singles to minors. Therefore the state was collecting it's tax revenues. He was just violating the law by selling the illegally to minors.
What a stupid fuck.
Whenever government bureaucrats kill someone there is always a MANUFACTURED BULLSHIT pretext
Lincoln slaughtered 600,000 Americans in order to abolish slavery NOT to protect real state and taxation
Slick Willy murdered 90 Davidians because David was fucking little girls NOT because the BATF was attempting to defend itself from the sexual harassment accusations filed by female officers .
Eric Garner was murdered because he was selling cigarette to minors NOT because he was depriving NY State of 2 - 3 dollars daily from tax revenue.
And stupid Americans always always always swallow the propagandized bullshit.
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