I am going to state the obvious.
Shut up.
Does this look like the politics thread? Is Glyph Graph a Fearful Jesuit? No!
The impacts of the Boston bombing are far more reaching than discussing the death toll and the terrorists in question since nothing new has come of it.
It may be seen as insensitive, but my main concern right now is what new abusable powers are going to be pushed for in the renewed national security initiative that's likely to begin tomorrow.
This is far more relevant and belongs in this thread more than any other.
Chillness levels sound drastically low in here; careful with that.
It's only as hostile as you need read into it. Try reading everything as if Morgan Freeman were narrating it; if it still sounds hostile, it probably is.
I suppose, then, what needs to be asked is whether or not we're talking about intelligence or morality.
That said, Loud Whispers, that still wasn't what you were spending most of your posts talking about.
Pretty much everything of what I've said has either been information, blind speculation or concerns about the madness of the reaction.
|||||||||||||||||||I've not criticized the actions of the Leos for shooting someone who very much was trying to shoot them.
I apologize for missing that, but
He was shooting back, LW. The situation is in no way comparable to the police shooting up a car because it has the same colour as the suspects. In fact, this was made clear after greatorder asked his question, so I'm not even sure why you wrote that post unless you were trying to drum up some fight.
But it is comparable to police searching for a murder suspect shooting and killing an armed civilian who later turned out to be innocent. Which was included.
is not true, except in that everything is technically comparable. That kind of claim is what I, and I think most people arguing against you, have been objecting to. Many of us are pretty on board with the politics and social liberty parts of what you're saying. We're just saying that the guy dying in a firefight he started, by using a weapon stolen from a police officer, whom he killed, is one of the few parts of the situation
not contributing to the potential for dystopia.
That instead of giving someone who has already fled the chance to surrender it's better to encourage the Leos to get vindictive and give the suspect "what they deserve"?
Because then they don't answer for their crimes, no one finds out why they did it and instead of being locked up and forgotten they are killed in an unforgettable lockdown that spans an entire city, transformed into an ascended martyr. And that's if they're guilty of the bombing and only them.
The example of the armed civilian I gave is comparable in that the police assumed the suspect was guilty and opened fire. The differences end where the reactions begin. From the Boston police commissioner Ed Davis's report, there was not an indication that they tried to apprehend the suspect before the shooting exchange began, no calls for surrender or promises of safety until a trial could be taken place.
I stress that it is not the fact that the Leos shot someone covered in blood who was firing back at them which has gotten me riled, it's that people who were watching this happen were willing the police to, in ominous terms, give the suspect lots of toasted lead with jam and butter.
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