07-11-2010, 10:55 AM
What a vile lie - "I went to grab my taser but grabbed my gun by mistake m'lud". The fact is that each will feel fundamentally different -- so a "mistake" like this is virtually impossible -- rather like intending to grab your dick but picking up a riled rattlesnake instead.
I have noticed similar judgement in the UK when police shoot innocents. Here they tend to get away with nothing more than a slap on the wrist - not even a sentence. And the worst they may suffer is being transferred out of the police firearms unit back to normal coppering. According to two senior SAS soldiers who trained the Met's SO19 firearms unit, police in that unit are psychological unfit to bear arms because they are too gung ho (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk...567961.ece).
As just one example of how unsuitable these people can be, take the recent case of the policeman who shot and killed the barrister Mark Saunders. In giving evidence to the subsequent inquest, the officer purposely peppered his evidence with song titles - including "line of fire" by Journey and "fuck my old boots" by the Membranes (see:http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/nov/02...ong-titles)
I have noticed similar judgement in the UK when police shoot innocents. Here they tend to get away with nothing more than a slap on the wrist - not even a sentence. And the worst they may suffer is being transferred out of the police firearms unit back to normal coppering. According to two senior SAS soldiers who trained the Met's SO19 firearms unit, police in that unit are psychological unfit to bear arms because they are too gung ho (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk...567961.ece).
As just one example of how unsuitable these people can be, take the recent case of the policeman who shot and killed the barrister Mark Saunders. In giving evidence to the subsequent inquest, the officer purposely peppered his evidence with song titles - including "line of fire" by Journey and "fuck my old boots" by the Membranes (see:http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/nov/02...ong-titles)
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14