Analysis, Commentary, Opinion
06.13.2020
Transform, Part V
Let freedom ring.
Stop the over policing of America, stop the over
policing of people of color.
The police cannot prey on the people, their primary
functions are to protect and serve, to protect and serve the people, to uphold the
rights of the people even against the particular interests of individual police
or police departments.
Let us begin with this:
1. Legalize and or
de-criminalize the drug markets, regulate and tax it.
a)
Treat drug
addiction for what it is, a crisis of physical and mental health
b)
Allow people
involved in this trade the same tools to protect their business and their
market share as any other store keeper.
22. Legalize or
de-criminalize and sex-workers industry, regulate and tax it.
c)
Stop human
trafficking and give the people working in this industry the standing to go to
court when they are aggrieved, with recourse to the law.
33. If and until we
are able to keep America at full employment, we must provide a Universal Basic
Income, this will keep people from turning to crime when they are unemployed
and unable to find work.
d)
Reform the Works
Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps
44. Provide Universal
Higher Education, whether this is at a public or private institution, whether
it is at a four year college, a two year college, a graduate degree program or
a trade school.
e)
Invest in the American
people, help them discover their purpose and the meaning for their lives.
f)
Sign a national
infrastructure bill that transforms the entire country: roads and bridges,
ports and rail, national and local rebuild America for a green economy.
55. Enjoin ever
citizen in a program of National Service, in the United States Military or National
Guard, Peace Corps or its equivalent operating in the United Sates.
66. End the
injustice of detaining citizens in jail, if they have been charged with a crime
and are awaiting their trial, unless they have been charged with a violent
crime.
77. Empty Prisons
of non-violent offenders. Pardon and or commute the sentences, expunge the
records of people who are serving time for their participation in markets that
will become legalized and or decriminalized.
88. Provide Universal
Health. Every American citizen should have access to health care, from birth to
death and every step in between.
99. Provide basic
housing to every citizen, get people off the streets, give them shelter, food
clothing and the care they need.
We
can do all of these things, we can transform America, and if we do we will eliminate
the need for much of what passes for police work today. We will refine the
scope of their mission in a way that allows for the community to properly
support their police, and for the police to properly protect and serve the
community.
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