27-06-2014, 07:33 AM
Obviously I'm not an American but even so I can't get excited about this.
Government agencies and the police break laws all day long every day and no one lifts a finger to stop that.
An innocent hobo is shot in the back by a cop with an assault rifle at a distance of a dozen or more yards, all recorded on video -- another guy is shot because he still wriggled after being repeatedly zapped by a Tazer, causing a cop to get impatient, draw his weapon and shoot the guy, who later dies of gunshot wounds. A Boston bombing "suspect" is shot to death seven times - three times in the back - while in FBI custody.
If someone tells me that these three officers have been arrested and charged and are waiting trial for murder - or at the very least manslaughter - then I'll start applauding this decision. Meanwhile, a million laws can be passed, but if they're not going to be upheld, so what?
Don't mean to sound to sour about this, my cynicism just manifests this way.
Government agencies and the police break laws all day long every day and no one lifts a finger to stop that.
An innocent hobo is shot in the back by a cop with an assault rifle at a distance of a dozen or more yards, all recorded on video -- another guy is shot because he still wriggled after being repeatedly zapped by a Tazer, causing a cop to get impatient, draw his weapon and shoot the guy, who later dies of gunshot wounds. A Boston bombing "suspect" is shot to death seven times - three times in the back - while in FBI custody.
If someone tells me that these three officers have been arrested and charged and are waiting trial for murder - or at the very least manslaughter - then I'll start applauding this decision. Meanwhile, a million laws can be passed, but if they're not going to be upheld, so what?
Don't mean to sound to sour about this, my cynicism just manifests this way.
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