29-12-2010, 09:56 AM
Aye Maggie, all the points I was making.
We are becoming a state where the police now routinely carry weapons - which is something that goes against a proud tradition of well over 100 years of policing. We are becoming a state were the police will shoot to kill rather than shoot to disarm. In other words the surreptitious reintroduction of a form of capital punishment where no jury, no judge and no court weigh any evidence, but where police commanders issue a peremptory kill order.
One of the first steps in the breakdown of society is when the state so fears its pubic that it must intimidate them them by force. The hitherto sympathetic symbiosis between the governed and the governing, has irreparably broken down.
We are becoming a state where the police now routinely carry weapons - which is something that goes against a proud tradition of well over 100 years of policing. We are becoming a state were the police will shoot to kill rather than shoot to disarm. In other words the surreptitious reintroduction of a form of capital punishment where no jury, no judge and no court weigh any evidence, but where police commanders issue a peremptory kill order.
One of the first steps in the breakdown of society is when the state so fears its pubic that it must intimidate them them by force. The hitherto sympathetic symbiosis between the governed and the governing, has irreparably broken down.
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