Bill Bodden's Blog - Posts Tagged "protest"

There's been a move afoot for years to privatize the US Postal Service. Mandated in the Constitution itself (Article 1, Section 8, for those who need verification), the US Postal Service can only be dismantled by a major, concerted effort, including a constitutional convention -- and that effort is well underway.

In recent years, Republican-controlled Congress demanded that the Postal Service fund 70+ years worth of pensions - something no other private business or government agency is required - or even encouraged - to do, as a way to drive the service into desperate insolvency. Then, by demonstrating how poorly managed and insolvent the service is, calling a constitutional convention to dissolve it and accept bids from private firms to deliver the mail will seem like a no-brainer to many Americans. Chillingly, if such a convention is successfully called, other amendments can be added, including reducing or outright eliminating access to birth control, as well as limiting the right to protest. Right now, the Republicans control a majority of state senates and legislatures, so they have the power to do it. Fortunately, it takes something like two-thirds of the states to call for such a convention to make it happen. Unfortunately, we are only a very small handful of states away from this happening.

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Nothing I can write about here will be better or more eloquent than what has already been said. In fact, I've been wondering these last few weeks why adding my two cent's worth would possible matter to anyone. Here's what I've learned: when people of privilege (such as me) don't speak up, change rarely happens. Maybe my voice isn't very loud, but combined with other voices, it's enough to cause an avalanche.

Like the numerous white people looting and pillaging and creating chaos -- and make no mistake, the footage I've seen is almost exclusively white people causing the damage -- white supremacist shit-heels are taking advantage of the situation to be agents provocateurs, hoping that the damage they do will kick-off the long hoped-for race war that will allow them (in their dreams) to kill people of color indiscriminately. So far, the police -- with very few exceptions -- seem eager to...
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