SHADOW ELITE, CYNTHIA MCKINNEY, TAALAM ACEY

Yesterday I discussed in my post the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals allowing voting for inmates and one of the purposes of incarcerating large numbers of blacks, decreasing the number of Democratic Party votes. Today I started reading Shadow Elite by Janine R. Wedel. I have just started and the book is brilliant so far. She explains the details of the strange relationships between the government and private concerns ("flex webs"). Gives names to the different types of players such as "flexians". Explains why they get away with their criminal/unethical behavior, playing more than one role at a time displaying only the most palatable one to the public, and that we have no way of controlling them because they create the systems of regulation as a comfort zone for themselves. She describes how this strange overlapping of relationships between bureaucracies and private corporations is driven by interests of particular tight knit cliques of people who are running our country. She has studied this phenomenon for years in other countries and determined this happens when a society is undergoing fundamental changes.

The injustice of people being put in prison to benefit the agenda/ finances of others as well as the injustice of our country being manipulated by corporate, `christian`, and many other interests causing our legislative process to be neutered has gotten me thinking of politicians like Cynthia McKinney(A truth teller demonized by the right and corporate media) and the poetry of Taalam Acey.