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Sep 08, 2014
Again, I repeat that I both like and admire and respect Prof. Pinker, but it's 2014 in America and this country/society still has child labor, slavery both economic and in the form of human trafficking [did not George W. Bush attempt to appoint neocon Linda Chavez to an office, and she was rejected by congress because she employed below-minimum wage undocumented workers?] Government under Bush AND Obama has ramped up the ILLEGAL incarceration of whistleblowers, something even Richard Nixon avoided doing! Billions go missing on such a frequent basis [in Iraq, more in Afghanistan, $6 billion recently in the State Department - - wonder who they've been buying off? ? ?] and yet we learn nothing more about it? What amounts of murder and mayhem do such billions purchase? The ATF program - - Fast and Furious has distributed many weapons to the drug cartels for further murders and havoc; the Pentgon 1033 program to give military-grade weapons to various police departments around the country has led to missing weapons - - what murders or future murders will they turn up in; ISIS or the Islamic State, whose weapons were financed and supplied by the US government when they first were fighting the Syrian government, now have used those weapons for mass executions of fellow Muslims in Syria and Iraq. The epic violence continues . . .