Question

Initiative of strike and political disturbance

Answer 1

Answer:

Strikes (work stoppages in protest of unfair working conditions or unfair negotiations over wages and benefits) are the right of any US worker. US “business” has had a considerable amount of success in “dealing” with the rights of workers, by using their vast fortunes to influence the government to pass laws such as “Right To Work” laws, that inhibit the ability of the workers to negotiate fair working conditions.

So “businesses” use their limitless financial power to demand that congress enact laws that enable them to stamp out the right of workers to negotiate fair wages and working conditions.

This is how “businesses” deal with strikes in the “richest country in the world”.

“Political disturbances” (public protests against government policy), are dealt with in a very similar, but much more brutal fashion. US police forces are militarized. They are trained to regard the citizens they are supposed to “Protect and Serve”, as if they were enemy combatants in a war zone. They are armed with military surplus weaponry, and trained to shoot to kill indiscriminately. Laws have been passed in every jurisdiction that give the police the “right” to kill, based on the assurance that no matter what the circumstances might be, all the officer must do is claim “fear for his life”, to be entirely exonerated from any responsibility.

So, when citizens protest against the government, which is our right and duty in a democracy, the police are mobilized to quell the dissent. The corporate news media portrays the protestors as a “mob”, or as “thugs”. Their protest is labeled as “rioting”, and the protestors are accused of vandalism and destruction of property. A number of the participants are arrested. The demonstration is broken up and the protestors disburse. The public is convinced by the media coverage, that an act of violence and looting has been stopped, and the voice of the people is silenced.

That’s how “political disturbances” are dealt with in the “land of the free”