No BIO they aren't transposed. But thank you for reading. The dissonance is intentional. I'm not very good for link hounds. It's meant to highlight a much larger blind spot that is at the source of our current dilemma. We can't see what's going on because we are so used to our conventional scripts. The police are good and just doing their job, while anyone carrying a gun and daring to fire on officers is clearly insane. Have you ever stopped to ask why a man would do such an obviously insane thing? What the fuck was he thinking? Aside form the cliché formula of “he's criminal” or “there is simply no excuse for resisting arrest or killing police officers” has anyone looked into what the fuck is going on over there in Oakland, or the country, that this level of insanity occurs. We won't mention that the army is requiring soldiers to register private weapons they have off base. Or that soldiers are being targeted for gun confiscation upon return from service.

This article is based on the following premise: the primary evolutionary impetus for street gangs is their need to defend themselves from police. The level of gang violence, organization and tactical and strategic sophistication directly mirrors the escalation in militarization of the police force they encounter. So that when one sees a 4:1 kill ratio it is a cause for concern. But the primary question is what the fuck are the police doing in Oakland to instigate that level of violence?

Saw some shit today I hadn't seen since I was young. Not a good sign when the police go rabid. What was it Sarah said? "I don't give a damn about financial records or postings." Of course not. Why would the reality of housing scandals, corrupt police, inner-city drugs, and financial take over be of any significance? As Matt Taibi so eloquently put it “we're officially, royally fucked .”

What had brought us to the brink of collapse in the first place was this relentless instinct for building ever-larger megacompanies, passing deregulatory measures to gradually feed all the little fish in the sea to an ever-shrinking pool of Bigger Fish.