It is much worse then the 70s. Back then I could get a job anywhere I chose. I chose the Post office. My wife worked for Western Electric Corp. We made so much money we could by a brand new three bedroom home on a corner lot. Have two cars one new and one 7 years old. It was a 63 chevy. Best car made. And a house full of antiques, and a new piano neither of us could play. But it made a great table for the antique fluted vase my wife collected.

Gas cost 36 cents a gallon. Our brand new made for us house was $34,000. The brand new 1969 chevy Impala fully loaded was $4,000 Upright piano $1800.
Yes those were the days when you could make an honest buck and live good. All destroyed by corpor...

It is much worse then the 70s. Back then I could get a job anywhere I chose. I chose the Post office. My wife worked for Western Electric Corp. We made so much money we could by a brand new three bedroom home on a corner lot. Have two cars one new and one 7 years old. It was a 63 chevy. Best car made. And a house full of antiques, and a new piano neither of us could play. But it made a great table for the antique fluted vase my wife collected.

Gas cost 36 cents a gallon. Our brand new made for us house was $34,000. The brand new 1969 chevy Impala fully loaded was $4,000 Upright piano $1800.
Yes those were the days when you could make an honest buck and live good. All destroyed by corporate greed and stupidity. Now only CEOs and execs make the good money. And I should add that both our jobs were Union controlled.

I have seen the America I fought for slowly die. And I am only glad that I am near that end. I just hope they will be able to give me the social security I earned for 40 years of work.

They also threw reporter Amy Goodman and her crew, who had full press credentials to cover the convention, in jail, too. Goodman and the other two say that unidentified men (they suspect Secret Service) took the press badges from around their necks after they'd been handcuffed and said, "You won't be needing this." They are facing charges of "inciting a riot," a convenient pretext at the time. I hope they sue every legal authority possible for violating their first amendment rights and right of free assemby. I also hope the rest of the media look at their brutal treatment and think honestly about what it means that the Republicans are trying the scrub the convention news by preventing (inclu...

They also threw reporter Amy Goodman and her crew, who had full press credentials to cover the convention, in jail, too. Goodman and the other two say that unidentified men (they suspect Secret Service) took the press badges from around their necks after they'd been handcuffed and said, "You won't be needing this." They are facing charges of "inciting a riot," a convenient pretext at the time. I hope they sue every legal authority possible for violating their first amendment rights and right of free assemby. I also hope the rest of the media look at their brutal treatment and think honestly about what it means that the Republicans are trying the scrub the convention news by preventing (including possibly illegally, in the case of Goodman) any TV images of the deep anger that their years in power have created.

Commenting from last to first I think it is worth realizing that the police were not acting like the worst of Nazi behavior.

Nazi's killed people. Nazi's tortured people. Nazi's sent 16 million Poles, Jews, Gays, Activist and common criminals to gas chambers that were factory assembly lines for mass murder.

But what we see in these videos is intimidation, use of excessive force and over-reaction, suppression of free speech, a 'chilling effect,' on all free speech, a slanderous and false portrayal of legitimate dissent, violations of civil liberties and Constitutional rights.

Being like Nazi's would be more like having secret prisons, kidnapping people off the streets to send them to jail,...

Commenting from last to first I think it is worth realizing that the police were not acting like the worst of Nazi behavior.

Nazi's killed people. Nazi's tortured people. Nazi's sent 16 million Poles, Jews, Gays, Activist and common criminals to gas chambers that were factory assembly lines for mass murder.

But what we see in these videos is intimidation, use of excessive force and over-reaction, suppression of free speech, a 'chilling effect,' on all free speech, a slanderous and false portrayal of legitimate dissent, violations of civil liberties and Constitutional rights.

Being like Nazi's would be more like having secret prisons, kidnapping people off the streets to send them to jail, indefinite detention, deprivation of outside communication or even an public acknowledgement of arrest, torture, killing of people in prisons, assassinations, corruption, buying of elections, setting up puppet governments, and bullshit charade propaganda.

The problem is that one leads to the other

In the elections of 1968 when decent leaders were growing in power they were murdered; Martin Luther King in April 68 and Robert Kennedy -- on the verge of becoming president -- later that same year and that shattering of hope and the grim horror of Vietnam led to the citizen and the police riots at the 1968 Democratic convention, where a status quo warhawk was nominated despite massive calls for change.

The New Age fascist don't need gas chambers anymore. They just need to put people on the no-fly list, they just need to read our emails and tap our phones, they just need to give people criminal records, they just need to distort, caricature or ignore the million voices of protest, they just need to make a nation with the highest prison population in the world, tell lies, mislead people with fear, steal money for Exxon and Wall St., destroy a middle class, make the rich richer and the poor poorer,

We are in worse shape and step-by-step the evil grows.

Patriots oppose this.