[Craic] Fwd: [New post] Lee Camp: America Condemns One Violent Mob While Celebrating Another

Wed Jan 13 04:42:07 PST 2021

Lee Camp sums up America beautifully in this short but powerful article!

Greg

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Editor posted: " Tear gas being deployed outside the Capitol on January 6
as Trump supporters stormed the building. [Tyler Merbler / CC BY 2.0] By
Lee Camp / Original to ScheerPost Most rational Americans have correctly
criticized and denounced the violent insurrec"

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<https://scheerpost.com/?author=14765177> Lee Camp: America Condemns One
Violent Mob While Celebrating Another
<https://scheerpost.com/2021/01/13/lee-camp-america-condemns-one-violent-mob-while-celebrating-another/>
by
Editor <https://scheerpost.com/?author=14765177>
Tear gas being deployed outside the Capitol on January 6 as Trump
supporters stormed the building. [Tyler Merbler
<https://www.flickr.com/people/37527185@N05> / CC BY 2.0
<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>]

By *Lee Camp* / *Original to ScheerPost*

Most rational Americans have correctly criticized and denounced the violent
insurrection in the Capitol last week. Those moments of attack by a racist,
disgusting mob have not lacked for condemnation and denunciation. They were
violent. They were reprehensible. They called for the killing of lawmakers,
demanded the hanging of Congress members. The liberal media and even most
of Fox News have not held their tongues when it comes to excoriating the
morally bankrupt people who took part. And I agree with those thoughts.

BUT - why don’t we see an *equal *amount of disgust and condemnation for
the violence done by our ruling class, the courtesans of corporate
destruction?

Is allowing people to die or fall ill due to lead pipes in Flint, Chicago,
Pittsburgh, and hundreds of other cities
<https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/thousands-of-u-s-areas-afflicted-with-lead-poisoning-beyond-flints/>
*not
*violence?

Is allowing citizens to lose their lives to cancer from Teflon[image: ™]
chemicals dumped in their water
<https://ohiovalleyresource.org/2017/02/13/dupont-offers-670m-settlement-teflon-chemical-contamination-water/>
or preventable oil spills *not *violence?

Is allowing tens of thousands to die of preventable illnesses from our
garbage healthcare system *not* violence?

Is allowing 15 million to lose their healthcare
<https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nearly-15-million-americans-lost-employer-based-health-insurance-heres-how-to-get-health-coverage-again-11604407656>
during a pandemic and therefore fear going to the hospital when they get
sick *not *violence?

Is imprisoning millions of people
<https://www.statista.com/statistics/262961/countries-with-the-most-prisoners/>
for *years *for non-violent crimes *not *violence?

Is locking up political prisoners like Stephen Donziger
<https://theintercept.com/2020/01/29/chevron-ecuador-lawsuit-steven-donziger/>,
Mumia Abu Jamal
<https://www.democracynow.org/2020/4/16/headlines/political_prisoner_mumia_abu_jamal_reports_no_covid_19_symptoms>,
Reverend Pinkney <https://www.gp.org/pinkney_released_from_prison>, Julian
Assange, Chelsea Manning, Leonard Peltier
<https://medium.com/an-injustice/we-need-to-free-leonard-peltier-now-3a176878c166>*not
*violence??

Is dropping a bomb every 12 minutes
<https://www.truthdig.com/articles/trumps-military-drops-a-bomb-every-12-minutes-and-no-one-is-talking-about-it/>
on innocent people in countries thousands of miles away *not *violence??

Is allowing *millions* in this country to go hungry while we throw out 40%
of all food
<https://www.nrdc.org/resources/wasted-how-america-losing-40-percent-its-food-farm-fork-landfill>
*not* violence?

Is arresting people
<https://www.courthousenews.com/a-dozen-people-arrested-for-feeding-the-homeless/>
who try to feed those who are starving not violence?

Is allowing hundreds of thousands to go homeless
<https://www.statista.com/statistics/555795/estimated-number-of-homeless-people-in-the-us/>,
living under bridges or on benches or squatting in collapsing structures
while this country has *trillions *of dollars and *millions* of empty houses
<https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/11/07/ghost-towns-america-zip-codes-highest-vacancy-rates/38371381/>
—is that *not *violence?

Is arresting, beating, and persecuting
<https://time.com/4087513/tiny-houses-denver-park-homeless/> those who try
to give those people houses not violence? And bulldozing the homes
<https://knpr.org/knpr/2020-12/north-las-vegas-homeless-camp-was-bulldozed-now-what>
— is that *not *violence?

Is causing the sixth great extinction
<https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/06/150623-sixth-extinction-kolbert-animals-conservation-science-world/>,
the mass death of half the world’s wildlife, in pursuit of corporate
profit *not
*violence?

Is causing the deaths of tens of thousands of Venezuelans
<https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/venezuela-sanctions-us-excess-death-toll-economy-oil-trump-maduro-juan-guaido-jeffrey-sachs-a8888516.html>
via economic warfare *not* violence?

Is creating an opioid epidemic by pushing pills on desperate people,
ultimately leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands
<https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49718388> *not *violence?

And then arresting those who stand up and fight back against the pollution
<https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/7/20902590/activists-arrested-extinction-rebellion-climate-change>,
against the pipelines
<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/22/standing-rock-jailed-activists-water-protectors>,
against the factory farming
<https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/05/30/39-arrested-hundreds-animal-rights-activists-occupy-california-factory-farm>,
against the war industry
<https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclear-un-usa/anti-nuclear-bomb-activists-arrested-at-u-s-mission-to-u-n-idUSKBN19A2KB>
—IS—THAT—NOT—VIOLENCE?

Of course it is.

It’s violence on a breathtaking scale, far greater than what was done at
the Capitol and far greater than any of us will witness in person. And yet
large scale corporate-endorsed violence, death and destruction is not only
allowable, it’s celebrated, it’s furthered, and promoted. Oil company
documents show that they tell cities that oil spills are good for the
economy
<https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/oil-company-argues-oil-spills-are-good-for-the-economy/361551/>.
Other documents show that fossil fuel companies have known about the harm
climate change would do since the 1970’s
<https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/>,
but they simply saw it as the price of doing business. Corporate sacrifice
zones <https://grist.org/fix/americans-live-sacrifice-zones-lets-fix-that/>
like "Cancer Alley" in Louisiana
<https://www.propublica.org/article/welcome-to-cancer-alley-where-toxic-air-is-about-to-get-worse>
are well known to be deadly to those who live there, yet it doesn’t matter
to the corporations because their money will be green nonetheless. It
doesn’t matter to the politicians because the poor who live in these
sacrifice zones have no political power. The 40% of food that’s thrown out
is not a secret. The subsidies paid to factory farms encourage them to
produce heaping mountains of food and dairy and meat even if they can’t
sell it all in our market economy. So they throw it out or bury it
<https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-dairy-farmers-dump-43-million-gallons-of-excess-milk-1476284353>.
Giving it to those in need would take too much time and effort.

Should the racist violent insurrectionists at the Capitol be punished?
Absolutely. But so too should the bought-off politicians who do the bidding
of our morally bankrupt corporate America. These politicians and the CEOs
they serve are purveyors of violence. They trade in, produce, and reap
violence. They sit on hordes of money—the obscene profit from feeding
American lives into the death cult of unfettered capitalism.

Our mainstream media are blanketing the airwaves with talk of how the
violent insurrectionists must be punished, and while they are not wrong,
the criminal behavior those same talking heads and “reporters” ignore
speaks volumes. All violence is not equal. Some of it is profitable and
protected. Some of it is *the American way*.
[image: Lee Camp]
Lee Camp

Lee Camp is the host of the hit comedy news show “Redacted Tonight
<https://youtube.com/RedactedTonight>.” His new book “Bullet Points and
Punch Lines” is available at LeeCampBook.com <http://leecampbook.com/> and
his stand-up comedy special can be streamed for free at LeeCampAmerican.com
<http://leecampamerican.com/>.
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