Every day I try to remember that for every cheney, murdoch and koch brother there are at least 100 people of thier power and influence who are not complete amoral psychopaths.
Some days are easier than others.
Every day I try to remember that for every cheney, murdoch and koch brother there are at least 100 people of thier power and influence who are not complete amoral psychopaths.
Some days are easier than others.
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#Hillary4prism
BD:TW
Some piously affirm: "The truth is such and such. I know! I see!"
And hold that everything depends upon having the “right” religion.
But when one really knows, one has no need of religion. - Mahavyuha Sutra
Freedom necessarily involves risk. - Alan Watts
I might also not like that Twitter account. Now you are just grasping for ANYTHING to save face.
Regardless, I don't care about Twitter.
To explain tactics to you: No, video and sound would not save the guy wrestling with the "suspect".
Video and sound WOULD however alert the operational commander to at once deploy a tactical plan made for that situation (or like).
YES that situation was what made them go in, and HELL YES they could have done better. I say it again, tactically this was an embarrassment. They most obviously were not prepared.
There are techs to work around that. Also tactics.
I state it again, the operatives must either have been incompetent OR have had their hands tied from above. I would put my money on the latter.
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The Troubles in Ireland was pretty recent. So I say ban all religion. We can start in Australia by removing the $250 million dollars spent by the federal government to put religious councillors (no non religious ones allowed). Should help repair the budget deficit too.
2 million Muslims live in the United States. Fewer than 100 have been arrested for actions with terrorists/trying to join a jihadi group. While a few US Muslims have been involved in deadly terrorist incidents such as the Ft. Hood mass shooting, the combined number of deaths engendered by US Muslims falls well short of the Nichols/McVey massacre in Oklahoma City -- and they were not affiliated with Islam in any fashion whatsoever.
ALL countries would do well, within limitations imposed by the maintenance of personal liberties, to take measures against domestic terrorism. A Muslim population may be somewhat more prone to radicalization than some other sub-groups (statistically, per capita), but that is by no means the only source of problems.
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
Disenfranchisement is a key part of the problem.
Risenf
Be well. Do good. Keep in touch.
Hopefully things like this "illridewithyou" meme will stop the usual anti-Islamic populism from stirring up in response to this.
It has been a strange one. It feels more like an American lone wolf-style shoot up than the sort of Islamic terrorism we are familiar with.
At the end of the day politics is just trash compared to the Gospel.
Yeah I don't think there is a greater picture here either, just someone who is mentally ill.
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