22-05-2014, 02:36 PM
Magda Hassan Wrote:I would think it might have quite a bit to do with it. I'm sure there is a lot we don't hear about as well. My bet is the government will come off second best in any confrontation too. If they decide to go for it. And they may well back down before it gets to that.
I agree. When the previous government tried to prosecute a member of the firearms squad for manslaughter (or similar anyway), the entire uK firearms squad threatened to resign and return to normal duties. That at the time of high terror alerts, and in the wake of the extra-judicial Menedez killing (murder in my eye).
The government was hamstrung and retreated - and, in fact, agreed that no armed police officers would, in the future, face prosecution. It was a blank cheque to shoot to kill on a whim. And it began to happen too. A man carrying a table-leg was "armed and dangerous" and shot dead. And on and on and on.
Murder unchecked, revenge killing, you name it. They have become the untouchables.
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