07-11-2010, 01:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-11-2010, 07:58 PM by Peter Lemkin.)
David Guyatt Wrote: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)
They [gun and taser] are usually kept in different positions on their belt; feel, weigh and are shaped differently. Most telling is that the 'firing mechanism' is completely different and calls for the use of other fingers and hand positions. Nothing in this situation called for either and CERTAINLY not a hasty use of any weapon. It was murder and premeditated murder, IMO. :bandit:
Police in the USA have carte blanche to kill anyone...the darker-skinned the are, the lighter the already light sentence will be. Sickening and getting worse, fast. Of course, in a police state the police are not subject to the same rules and laws as the nation of 'policed' are.
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass