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None Mac tnavarra 5-13-2014 1:00 PM BY SIGNING YoUR INITIALS ABoVE, YoU ARE STATING THAT YoU HAVE READ AND APPRo Publications TBD VED THIS WoRK. Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 21 No. 861 • July 24 - August 6, 2014 3 GUEST COMMENTARY by John W. Whitehead [email protected] What I Don’t Like About Life in America here’s a lot to love about America and its pat downs, and other indignities by the TSA. I religious studies at home, growing vegetables in people up for life for nonviolent crimes. There are people: their pioneering spirit, their entre- don’t like VIPR raids on so-called “soft” targets their yard, and collecting rainwater. I don’t like more than 3,000 people in America serving life Tpreneurship, their ability to think outside such as shopping malls and bus depots by the National Defense Authorization Act, which sentences for nonviolent crimes, including theft of the box, their passion for the arts, etc. Increasingly, black-clad Darth Vader lookalikes. I don’t like allows the president and the military to arrest and a jacket, siphoning gasoline from a truck, stealing however, I find things I don’t like about living fusion centers, which represent the combined detain American citizens indefinitely. I don’t like tools, and attempting to cash a stolen check. I don’t in a nation that has ceased to be a sanctuary for surveillance efforts of federal, state, and local law the PATRIOT Act, which opened the door to all like paying roughly $29,000 a year per inmate just freedom. enforcement. manner of government abuses and intrusions on to keep these nonviolent offenders in prison. Here’s what I don’t like about living in America. I don’t like being treated like an underling our privacy. I don’t like having my hard-earned taxpayer I don’t like being treated as if my only value to by government agents who are supposed to be I don’t like the Department of Homeland dollars used against me. the government is as a source of labor and funds. working for me. I don’t like being threatened, Security (DHS), which has become America’s I don’t like the partisan nature of politics I don’t like being viewed as a consumer and bits intimidated, bribed, beaten, and robbed by standing army in direct opposition to the dire today, which has so polarized Americans that of data. I don’t like being spied on and treated as individuals entrusted with safeguarding my warnings of those who founded our country. they are incapable of standing in unity against the if I have no right to privacy, especially in my own rights. I don’t like being silenced, censored, and I don’t like military weapons such as armored government’s abuses. I don’t like the entertainment home. marginalized. I don’t like my movements being vehicles, sound cannons, and the like being used drivel that passes for news coverage today. I don’t like government officials who lobby for tracked, my conversations being recorded, and my against American citizens. I don’t like government I don’t like the fact that those within a 25-mile my vote only to ignore me once elected. I don’t transactions being cataloged. agencies such as the DHS, the Postal Service, the range of the border are getting a front-row seat like having representatives unable and unwilling I don’t like how the presidency has developed Social Security Administration, and the Fish & to the American police state, as Border Patrol to represent me. I don’t like taxation without into a neo-monarchy replete with all the luxury Wildlife Service stocking up on hollow-point agents are now allowed to search people’s homes, representation. and lasciviousness of the feudal lords of old. bullets. And I definitely don’t like the implications intimately probe their bodies, and rifle through I don’t like being bullied by government I don’t like politicians who spend most of their of detention centers being built that could house their belongings – all without a warrant. bureaucrats, vigilantes masquerading as cops, or time running for office, fundraising, and enjoying American citizens. I don’t like public schools that treat students faceless technicians. I don’t like being railroaded being feted by lobbyists and corporations alike. I don’t like the fact that since President Barack as if they were prison inmates. I don’t like zero- into financing government programs whose only I don’t like being kept at a distance from my Obama took office, police departments across tolerance laws that criminalize childish behavior. purpose is to increase the power and wealth of elected representatives, including the president. I the country “have received tens of thousands I don’t like a public educational system that the corporate elite. I don’t like being forced to don’t like free-speech zones, roving bubble zones, of machine guns; nearly 200,000 ammunition emphasizes rote memorization and test-taking pay for wars abroad that serve no purpose except and trespass laws that restrict Americans’ First magazines; thousands of pieces of camouflage over learning, synthesizing, and critical thinking. to expand the reach of the military industrial Amendment rights.