Greetings gentle reader, I read something yesterday that truly blew my mind (and I've been avoiding those 'easily mis-understood and purposefully divisive' articles for some time now...but wasn't on the renowned MSN homepage an AP article (you could see this drivel coming out of Fox but AP, they're supposed to vet their stuff more vigorously...except when it comes to, er, propagandizing the extraordinarily gullible public.
Yes, I take heart in the fact that most people retain a modicum of critical reasoning skills so yesterday's, er, 'poll' citing white people are 'cool' (read sympathetic) to police violence I sort of stopped short and wondered what kind of, er, editor would greenlight such an irresponsible opinion piece...and it wasn't run as an op/ed, it was run as a 'most people think', an 'informational article' on the scale of did you know?
Well, coincidentally or otherwise, the article went on to cite the 'usual suspects', the 25% of the public that identify themselves as conservatives. While the article didn't specifically say conservatives, it's where the coincidence kicks in...it said 25% of white people could see a situation where a law enforcement could assault an average citizen during the performance of their, er, job.
Um, understand, it is NEVER okay for ANYBODY to use physical force to control you. NEVER. Not a cop, not a judge, hell not even a prison guard! It's NEVER okay so where and it doesn't matter who's 'cool' with the idea...so the entire article was...pointed.
Yes, gentle reader, the purpose of article slike that one is to plant in YOUR MIND that it's 'okay' for law enforcement to use physical force when they feel it is 'warranted'.
Naturally the factor that makes the average citizen's mind recoil in horror is these guys ROUTINELY exercise poor judgement with lethal force, now we are being told it's 'okay' for them to put a beating on you...if they feel threatened.
US police have KILLED more people LAST MONTH than UK police have killed since 1900...a hundred and fifteen years, something's wrong with this 'police state' we find ourselves in.
It's time to start demanding editorial accountability.
Yes, I take heart in the fact that most people retain a modicum of critical reasoning skills so yesterday's, er, 'poll' citing white people are 'cool' (read sympathetic) to police violence I sort of stopped short and wondered what kind of, er, editor would greenlight such an irresponsible opinion piece...and it wasn't run as an op/ed, it was run as a 'most people think', an 'informational article' on the scale of did you know?
Well, coincidentally or otherwise, the article went on to cite the 'usual suspects', the 25% of the public that identify themselves as conservatives. While the article didn't specifically say conservatives, it's where the coincidence kicks in...it said 25% of white people could see a situation where a law enforcement could assault an average citizen during the performance of their, er, job.
Um, understand, it is NEVER okay for ANYBODY to use physical force to control you. NEVER. Not a cop, not a judge, hell not even a prison guard! It's NEVER okay so where and it doesn't matter who's 'cool' with the idea...so the entire article was...pointed.
Yes, gentle reader, the purpose of article slike that one is to plant in YOUR MIND that it's 'okay' for law enforcement to use physical force when they feel it is 'warranted'.
Naturally the factor that makes the average citizen's mind recoil in horror is these guys ROUTINELY exercise poor judgement with lethal force, now we are being told it's 'okay' for them to put a beating on you...if they feel threatened.
US police have KILLED more people LAST MONTH than UK police have killed since 1900...a hundred and fifteen years, something's wrong with this 'police state' we find ourselves in.
It's time to start demanding editorial accountability.
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