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PLANNING WATCH Los Angeles, like the rest of the United States, is obsessed by crimes perpetrated by people at the bottom of society.
This country has four percent of the world’s population and 22 percent of its prisoners, most of them from poor backgrounds. Petty crime stories are a staple for local news shows and electronic bulletin boards, like NextDoor. Every Amazon package thief, dog poop scofflaw, and mailbox rifler can count on a long list of hostile comments.
Even though petty crimes make for bold headlines and alarmist social media posts, white collar crime, what Woodie Guthrie called
robbing you with a fountain pen, is where the real money lies. For example, the Federal Government spent $125 billion to settle the savings-and-loan bank scandals of the 1980s. One high profile case, Irvine-based Lincoln Savings, ensnared five US senators and sent the lead crook, Charles Keating, to a Federal penitentiary.
The Politics Of Fear In Sri Lanka: Allowing Demagogues To Manipulate The Electorate!
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.” – Edmund Burke
During a recent TV Quiz show, a Muslim girl named Shukra Munawwar from Galle won not only two million rupees, but the hearts of millions too. The popular show attracted much social media traction. Innumerable social media in Sinhala not only complimented her for her superb knowledge in history and her command of the Sinhala language, she was also admired for bringing hope in an otherwise gloomy political environment tarred by racism. This is only a token reflection of the level of goodwill and the thirst for peaceful co-existence usually prevalent at the grass root levels in the South. How did this frank aspiration to live in harmony as was seen for more than centuries, became submerged in a cesspit of mistrust and hatred, in Post-Independence Sri Lanka? Why did the usually tolera
The human “fight or flight” response gives demagogues like Trump a tool for political manipulation. But we could replace oppression with a system of care.