So this is bugging me... Fox news is not some bastion of hope in an otherwise lie filled media world. They are not the ones being honest amongst liars, and they are NOT some underground movement of free-thought.
But I still see headlines about what how Fox personalities are "uncovering the truth the liberal media won't talk about" and all this other rubbish.
Usually after I've already read about this "hidden truth" elsewhere.
Mainstream media is a for profit business. They almost universally lack professional integrity. Fox News is part of the mainstream media. Americans identifying as Democrat and Americans identifying as Republican are within a percentage point of each other. So for realsies... conservatives are not some oppressed minority. Please stop pretending otherwise. You are part of a very popular group. Elections are a toss-up. The world isn't out to get you. You are not victims.
Oi.
Monday, September 29, 2014
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Obvious guy says: no knock raids are dangerous...
Two Texas men have their house broken into by police with a no knock raid because somebody said they have drugs. Both shoot the police because "no knock" and thus "no freaking idea that they are being raided lawfully rather than somebody trying to break in to cause them harm". In both cases no drugs were found (though that is really functionally irrelevant I should think).
One man has charges dropped, because... yeah... breaking into somebody's home in the middle of the night in Texas is a great way to get shot. It's a perfectly reasonable outcome to the situation. The other man Texas is trying to execute.
Care to guess the most obvious difference?
http://www.infowars.com/murder-charges-dropped-against-man-who-killed-cop-in-no-knock-raid/
http://reason.com/blog/2014/09/17/texas-wants-to-execute-man-who-killed-ho
Now, beyond that difference...
What is with these no-knock raids anyway? Grenades in babies cribs? Getting the wrong address and then shooting to death people who were lawfully defending their homes? I question how worth while these are. Some of them are even being conducted of marijuana of all things! Freaking marijuana! How is marijuana worth allowing the police to kill innocent people? How is it worth putting the police in harm's way when people very reasonably shoot the unannounced intruders trying to break into their homes?
But most of all, why is it okay for police to shoot and kill people after getting the wrong address, and NOT face charges... but it's not okay for people to shoot police who are (from the resident's perspective) thugs just breaking and entering to cause harm? If you don't know it's police, why would you not defend yourself?
And last question: what happens if people become so scared of shooting the very dangerous to public life police officers who are breaking and entering into people's homes, that actual criminals just start shouting "we're the police!" if they hear somebody in the home stirring during their robbery, knowing that makes them safe?
I care for and respect officers doing they're duty and putting their lives at risk for the protection of me and my fellow citizens. But this no-knock raid business is some bullshit. People are dying, and it's the Police's fault. I mean LITERALLY their fault.
One man has charges dropped, because... yeah... breaking into somebody's home in the middle of the night in Texas is a great way to get shot. It's a perfectly reasonable outcome to the situation. The other man Texas is trying to execute.
Care to guess the most obvious difference?
http://www.infowars.com/murder-charges-dropped-against-man-who-killed-cop-in-no-knock-raid/
http://reason.com/blog/2014/09/17/texas-wants-to-execute-man-who-killed-ho
Now, beyond that difference...
What is with these no-knock raids anyway? Grenades in babies cribs? Getting the wrong address and then shooting to death people who were lawfully defending their homes? I question how worth while these are. Some of them are even being conducted of marijuana of all things! Freaking marijuana! How is marijuana worth allowing the police to kill innocent people? How is it worth putting the police in harm's way when people very reasonably shoot the unannounced intruders trying to break into their homes?
But most of all, why is it okay for police to shoot and kill people after getting the wrong address, and NOT face charges... but it's not okay for people to shoot police who are (from the resident's perspective) thugs just breaking and entering to cause harm? If you don't know it's police, why would you not defend yourself?
And last question: what happens if people become so scared of shooting the very dangerous to public life police officers who are breaking and entering into people's homes, that actual criminals just start shouting "we're the police!" if they hear somebody in the home stirring during their robbery, knowing that makes them safe?
I care for and respect officers doing they're duty and putting their lives at risk for the protection of me and my fellow citizens. But this no-knock raid business is some bullshit. People are dying, and it's the Police's fault. I mean LITERALLY their fault.
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