While surfing the net and daydreaming I suddenly found myself creating a username and password at this site...AmericansElect2012...
Wait...what? What am I doing?
What is this and how did I get here....as if my laptop had played some Jedi mind trick on me...but this site looks mysteriously vague as if they're not really gonna ask me for my credit card anytime soon...but you can never be too careful...so I click on the Terms Of Use page...and enter the most simultaneously boring and eye-opening pronouncements slung out in sem-arcane legalese that I've ever encountered...probably because I usually just glance briefly at any Terms Of Use Agreement looking for any clause or addendum or rule that would ...say...for example....by agreeing to this Terms Of Use you shall hereby be required to wear a sandwich board daily and in full view of the public, preferably at community gatherings of no less than 100 persons and wave your arms repeatedly up and down in a brisk manner at a minimum rate of 2 upward motions and 2 downward motions per minute, always with arms to the side, so as not to block the front and back of said sandwich board, or to obscure or otherwise block view of aforementioned front and back of sandwich board (herafter referred to as Your Job), and by agreeing to this Terms Of Use you hereby are required to "display" Your Job whenever and wherever needed as per the request of.... some corporate giant masqerading as some little obscure website that I've oddly been drawn to...but I actually don't see anything alluding to public slavery...so I actually made the effort to...read...the...entire..cerebrally sedating document (and I once thought I was through making bad decisions until I realized it was the only way I interface with LIFE...but I digress...).

So I immediately started zoning out until I would hit on something that sounded vaguely like I might be considered to be a cyber-hacking, site wrecking monkey wrench douchebag that might "fuck" with them or their "property" and vacuum out personal data for who knows what or broadcast my own personal "Eat Shit" banner on their Home Page, and then alert everyone on Facebook to clog up their servers by going to have a look-see...hey! Who do you think I am here?

And then more legalese naming persons, places, things, ideas....and...I... would..drift off into thinking about what I was going to wear tomorrow and did I still have clothes wrinkling in the dryer...and holy shit...suddenly there's more things I could possibly be accused of doing...Do people actually do this? The mischief and mayhem I mean...not reading the Terms Of Use...reading the Terms Of Use is best left for the semi literate among us who can read without moving our lips and sounding out words like the great apes trained by Jane Goodall.

So I feel somewhat safe and mildly insulted and click OK...
Now on to the Privacy Policy...         

There's a common feeling shared by those of us who've managed to still live comfortably while we feel the heartbeat of our country slowing daily...while we watch the rotting corpse of our infrastructure disintegrate...while we shudder in pain as the lifeblood our country (good ol' American owned and operated small business) is pulsing towards deep system failure..and that feeling is...at least we're safe from the high crime rate of the lower income areas...at least we're safe...right? Shootings...stabbings...robberies...rape... That couldn't happen to me, right?

Well, right now you're probably slipping ever closer to your very own lower income area as I write this...perhaps your job is "temporary"...or "part-time"...or perhaps you kill yourself to "live" comfortably in this circling the drain economy by working several "temporary" "part-time" jobs...but not a career, mind you...like the bankers scarfing up your house...or charging you a fee to access your money...or the politicians whose coffers are filled by defense contractors while they beat the drum of war...

No, no, no, you're not like those guys...because those guys make the rules...and you...well...I hate to break it to you...but you're a follower...not a leader..what's that? Oh I see. You live your own life. You decide which rules to follow and which to not....except for this...one ...little...troubling... fact: the rules are being changed again and it don't look so good for you...not at all.

Every year the United States Congress authorizes the defense budget via a NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act.  2012's NDAA allows the U.S. Armed Forces to operate on U.S. soil....suspending due process...suspending habeus corpus...and detaining any person "deemed" a terrorist for as long as they see fit....perhaps a Saudi national...perhaps a U.S. protester...you know...those people who are awake enough to realize their innate human rights are being violated...yeah those people...

So what does this have to do with crime...and lower income areas? Well...welcome to the neighborhood...your lower income neighborhood that is...you're living in it right now
All the creeping malaise associated with poverty is now within a stone's throw of most of you...all those vices associated with being poor...and disenfranchised...are soon to be part of your life experience...and it won't be the local cops kicking in your door...you see, the middle class is a fairly large group...and, why...with all that pesky education there's bound to be some resistance....better call in the Army to take care of you and your kind...

And that's who you're gonna be taking orders from...if you manage to survive the chaos...because YOU'VE LET THEM MAKE ALL THE RULES...

Follower!....