I have written before about the plight of Detroit and what it portends for all of us.
Here is an essay by Chris Floyd stating much the same:
http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/2358-shackles-and-chains-detroit-as-a-template-for-democracys-destruction.html
And here is the article on which his essay is based:
http://blackagendareport.com/content/democracy-going-down-count-detroit
Earlier in the week, Judge Rhodes rejected the NAACP’s challenge to Kevyn Orr’s Emergency Financial Manager powers on the grounds that they unconstitutionally disenfranchise a majority of Michigan’s African American citizens. The judge said the public has a more “substantial interest in the speedy and efficient resolution of a municipal bankruptcy case that affects as many people and institutions, and as much of the local, regional and national economy, as this case does.” He said the NAACP could continue its suit after the bankruptcy is done.
In other words, the people’s right to vote is secondary to working out the financial claims brought by derivatives-wielding bankers. If the people’s franchise stands in the way of the Lords of Capital’s right to “restructure” Detroit to their liking, then the franchise must be rendered inoperative, at least until the spoils have been divvyed up – that is, until all the issues that matter have been made moot.
A great deal has been mooted in Detroit, whose fate will become the model, the legal precedent, for the rest of the country. We are witnessing the death of, not just dreams of urban Black power, but of previous notions of American democracy, itself.
You didn't read Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, did you? The chickens are truly coming home to roost, and those "capitalists" for whom your children died and got their legs and arms blown off are doing to us what they used to do only to the rest of the world.
How does it feel? And I'm not talking to you one percenters; we all know how you feel.
http://youtu.be/oykxg0eW3n8
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