(2012/01/25) Prison Nation - Then and Now (Police State)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 26 January 2012
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Edition #569
Prison Nation - Then and Now
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Act 1: Chris Anders - This is what a police state looks like - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 11-29-11
Song 1: Underwater - Born Loser and the Hangers On
Act 2: Obama Insisted on Indefinite Detentions of Citizens - Young Turks - Air Date: 12-14-11
Song 2: The Cave - Mumford & Sons
Act 3: Obama's Signing of Defense Authorization Act Makes Us a Lawless Country - The Progressive Air Date: 12-19-11
Song 3: Drums of Freedom - Theo Bard
Act 4: Mary from Verizon learns about the NDAA - Majority Report Air Date: 1-5-12
Song 4: A Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Ole Oak Tree - Lawrence Welk
Act 5: Exponentially More Right Wing Terror Groups Than Left Wing - David Pakman Air Date: 11-10-11
Song 5: Bad bad things - Andrew Jackson Jihad
Act 6: 98 Percent Of Americans Are Afraid Of 98 Percent Of Americans - The Onion
Song 6: Frasier Theme
Act 7: The Police Aren't Supposed to Have the Pentagon on Call - The Progressive Air Date: 12-12-11
Song 7: Reel around the sun - Bill Whelan
Act 8: What Will We Watch As Drones Evolve? - NPR Air Date: 7-31-11
Song 8: Eyes in the sky - laughing sky
Act 9: The Prison (The Prison Nation) - Mumia Abu-Jamal Air Date: 12-28-11
Song 9: Zombie Nation (Yelling Mix) - Kernkraft 400
Act 10: Series Of Serial Killer Killings Rocks Serial Killer Community - The Onion
Song 10: Serial Killer - The Cassidy Project (Formerly of Antigone Rising)
Act 11: Sheriff Joe Arpaio Must Go - The Progressive Air Date: 12-27-11
Song 11: Sheriff - Oliver Onions
Act 12: Minorities regularly victimized by the police - Young Turks Air Date: 1-5-12
Voicemails:
Pursuing animal rights while we still face human rights may be objectionable - Mike From Philadelphia
More on the history of slavery in politics - Colin from Cleveland, OH
Followup clarification to previous call - not all veganism comes from white privilege - Mike From Philadelphia
On speaking directly to the under privileged about veganism - John from Northfield, MN
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Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments on the importance of context in the discussion of white privilege
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.5 | the membership tab at BestOfALeft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfALeft podcast with Cubsidate from the Tom Harden |
| 0:12.7 | program, The Young Turks, The Progressive, The Majority Report, The David Pakman Show, |
| 0:17.5 | The Onion Radio News, NPR, Mumi Obuja Mall, and a bonus video clip for our Apple iOS |
| 0:22.6 | and Android app users from The Young Turks. |
| 0:30.2 | This absolutely bizarre piece of legislation seems like it's heading for Congress right |
| 0:35.6 | as we speak. |
| 0:36.8 | Chris Anders is with us. |
| 0:38.6 | Chris is the Senior Legislative Council with the Washington Legislative Office of the |
| 0:42.0 | ACLU. |
| 0:43.0 | That's the DCACLU.org. |
| 0:45.6 | And Chris, welcome to the program. |
| 0:46.8 | Hi, thank you. |
| 0:48.4 | Thank you for joining us, Chris. |
| 0:49.7 | I assume Legislative Council means you're an attorney? |
| 0:52.5 | Yes, it does. |
| 0:53.5 | Okay, so you can speak of this with perhaps a little more authority than just the average |
| 0:59.5 | political observer. |
| 1:01.6 | Am I correct? |
| 1:02.6 | I first started getting emails about this a week or so ago, and people were saying, Tom, |
| 1:08.6 | if they decide that you're a terrorist or that they suspect that you're a terrorist, |
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