Watching the news w Pynchon yet, able to breathe, luckily.

[Becky Lindroos]

This has been true since the vets of Vietnam - I don’t know about Korea or prior.  And they bring with them a whole lot of baggage from the mindset they went in with to the PTSD they got while on active duty. 

http://discoverpolicing.org/find_your_career/?fa=military_veterans

Bek


> On Dec 6, 2014, at 7:56 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> You may be right, Mark. I would only add that in NYC a close
> examination of the legacy of
> Bernard Kerik is worth looking into. The wars, Obama's wars now, are
> revolving doors for soldiers who work in NYC corrections, and on the
> police department. While the so-called progressive mayor disappointed
> most of his supporters with his appointment of Bratton, the recent
> resignations, "retirements" of Black and Latino leadership is even
> more frightening...the recruiting of whites from the suburbs, and the
> placement of rookies in the toughest assignments (for example in the
> Pink) is an other problem, a union, seniority problem that has an
> apartheid impact on housing, education, courts...etc...so, a complex
> web or entrenched power, but the wars, the fucking wars, and the way
> the wars are brought home to poor neighborhoods is the major problem
> here in NYC.
> 
> David, though awkwardly, is on to something when he speaks of the
> body. Matthew Pratt Guterl, in the The Guardian, takes on this issue
> recently:
> 
> This fear and fascination with the superhuman black male body is a
> longstanding sightline – a “racial script”, as the historian Natalia
> Molina calls it – in which a confused, delusional vision of the
> dangerous black male body is repeatedly invoked as a reason for some
> terrible, violent response. This is the story of Emmett Till and Eric
> Garner, and a thousand stories in between. It is a reminder that the
> story of King Kong is a metaphor for racial fear. It also points, as
> Khalil Gibran Muhammad reminds us, to the myth of the coked-up
> criminal, immunized from pain and impossible to bring down. We should
> be recognizing that each and every one of these dehumanizing fears is
> dangerously – and tragically false – but time and time again, we
> refuse to admit it.
> 
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> we have read Pynchon's essay on the mind of Watts.
>> 
>> I Repeat that Radney Balko's The Militarization of the Police
>> traced the start of SWAT teams to the LAPD as an organizational response
>> To those riots.
>> 
>> for 40+ years, and esp since 9/11, the police departments all over the United States
>> Have militarized themselves, prepared for " riots" instead of " freedom of assembly",  have allowed o'er the top Jacobean-like revengeful anger to build
>> And build until: The Bigfoot cops can choke, gang-up on, beat and shoot at will.
>> 
>> TRP did know exactly when the cops turned. Inherent Vice.
>> 
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