Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Intent to Kill

Laid out in considerable detail, this post explores what happened to the deceased Gaza activists.  This is an excellent example of a basic premise: if you want captives, send police; if you want corpses, send soldiers.  Their training is different, and you get what you pay for.

I do not consider Israel a civilized nation.  (I wish it would have been, but sheesh and baksheesh, Germany  is accruing beans faster on the civilized side of the scale.)  I sincerely wish that America would stop sending money there.  It is funding atrocities.  This costs America a lot of civilized beans.
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xiphias

xiphias

June 6 2010, 22:49:59 UTC 11 years ago

I wouldn't call that a point of order on "cops vs. soldiers".

Rather, I'd call that a real good reason to actually hire some police somewhere in the United States, rather than just having the police forces simply being the folks with the snappiest-looking gang colors.
ysabetwordsmith

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ysabetwordsmith

June 7 2010, 07:32:07 UTC 11 years ago

>>Rather, I'd call that a real good reason to actually hire some police somewhere in the United States, rather than just having the police forces simply being the folks with the snappiest-looking gang colors.<<

Precisely.

Besides, if the police are too brutal, that causes a whole cascade of other problems, such as: innocent people rightfully fear them too, so they run, which boosts your body count and outrages the citizenry (rightly so); and people won't call the police when it is appropriate to do so, because the police are likely to make matters worse instead of better, so then crimes don't get reported, which runs up the crime rate; and more people start taking the law into their own hands because the official law is a parsec away from actual justice, which creates much chaos and mayhem. Lots of countries have demonstrated variations on this slide into the abyss.