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Cops on Film
Cop violates freedom of guy filming cop violating freedom of other guy.
Hey, if the cop wasn’t doing anything wrong, what was he afraid of? (To coin a phrase.)
The State In Action
Forty years ago today, Ohio National Guardsmen murdered four unarmed students at Kent State and wounded nine others, permanently paralysing one. (CHT Making Light for the reminder.)
The students’ crime? Protesting the invasion of Cambodia (or, in some cases, walking nearby while others were protesting it).
“That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.”
Because They Can
What a Fool Believes
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer explains why we shouldn’t worry that her state’s new law (allowing the police to demand identity papers from anyone who looks like they might be an “illegal” immigrant) won’t lead to racial profiling or other abuses (as if “the thing itself” were not abuse enough …):
We have to trust our law enforcement. Police officers are going to be respectful. They know what their jobs are; they’ve taken an oath. And racial profiling is illegal.
Oh well, nothing to worry about then.
Hier Ist Kein Warum
When Primo Levi, as a newly arrived prisoner at a Nazi concentration camp, reached for an icicle to quench his desperate thirst, a guard knocked the icicle out of his hand. To Levi’s question “Warum?” (“Why?”), the guard replied with what was destined to become a famous quote: “Hier ist kein Warum” (“Here there is no why”).
Gosh, don’t it make you glad to live in a free country?