Happy Halloween: Murder, Torture, and the USA

It strikes me as a bit grotesque that we live in a country that has legalized the death penalty and torturous practices like water-boarding. The top 2 articles on the New York Times website shows the horror-show nature of our country. Happy Halloween.

It shouldn't come as a surprise since the United States has over 2 million incarcerated people, refuses to sign the most basic environmental protocols, and has enormous homeless, ill, and mad populations the state refuses to assist. Our culture of death, torture, neglect is made more horrific by the enormity of homes, big box stores, loud-mouthed t.v. personalities, and cheap glitz. As we enter the election cycle in this colonial state born from the labor of slaves, exploited immigrants, and the poor, lets force candidates to answer for the historical, contemporary, and future violence a capitalist, colonialist, genocidal nation like the USA thrives on.