Again - this (from my point of view) is about injustice; so saying "the trial isn't over" is cold comfort. Is it more just for the rioters to wait until this officer is acquitted or found to be acting in accordance with the law? Some pretty restrained rioters you guys got over there; I'm impressed.This is going to sound nit-picky but the trial is not over. Everyone is innocent until the conclusion has been wrought. Anger is fine! But what stops a flame from burning a neighborhood? Organization, cool heads, blah, blah, blah.
my anger? i was encouraging civil unrest.Now let us address your anger about "petty theft".
I see again you've made a big point of a small part of my post (that looting from stores is probably looting insured items; this was merely an aside to the content of my post, but you're making it one of the main points of rebuttal).What these people took was not insured money or items, what they took was labor; frankly exploited labor. Stealing from exploited labor practically is burning the neighborhood down. Again, hedonism. You act as if property is insured it is okay to let your anger out. Did you think about the low wage workers that make most of the shit that got stolen? Do you think about the crippling American industry that came with outsourcing (exploiting) labor to produce those items cheaply to keep the American economy afloat....And they go and riot?
Never mind, I stand by what I said.
As for the American economy - as a non-American I couldn't really care less, to be perfectly honest with you.
The Globalist outsourcing of manufacturing was an American creation that the rest of the developed world has blindly followed; making American slavery into global slavery.
But getting back to some semblance of the topic at hand; the outrage at looting in some quarters overshadows the concern for the slaying of an unarmed man by police. Can you not see how this is troubling?
A man is shot multiple times in the back by an officer of the law and you want to talk about consumer items?They would be what I just addressed above. Slavery has nothing to do with what I was talking about. The roots of Hedonism is unchecked Desire. Some poor kid got shot? Better go steal some NIKES? Seriously, get the fuck out of here. We need serious people addressing serious issues of justice, we do not need thievery with the luxury of knowing "it's insured by a higher power".
If people wish to express their outrage in acts of petty theft, I have no problem with this. It's small-fry.
We're talking about an extrajudicial execution in the street (which we all know is legal, but this time it happened in the USA, not Pakistan or Yemen, right?)
Where do I use the word "victims" in relation to poor people signing up to join the military?Listen you don't have to call me naive as if I don't know about socioeconomic pressures on recruiters and the benefits therein. However I choose not to call them victims. Few people risk their lives for an Idea and if they sign up for money as that Ideal then that is their choice. Just as it is yours to call them victims. I am a Marxist for Christ sake though, don't patronize me.
"Marxist" or not, I fail to see your point.
You understand the socioeconomic pressures that supply human capital to the military...and you call it 'choice' - at the same time as calling yourself a Marxist?
This makes no sense.
My plan? Well, I wasn't aware I was obliged to have one, not being American, but here's a plan anyway;Social inequity plays a part I never stated it did not. Quote me if I am wrong. Institutionalized racism is injustice, yes. But what is it you plan on doing? What is your go-to response? Defend the thieves and hide the activists. I am laughing, though it isn't laughable.
Raise the standards of US police forces by demanding a little more from these heavily armed cowards that apparently masquerade as those who "serve and protect" the people in towns like this.
Wanna be a cop? Take this test to see if you have the basic attributes of compassion and humanity before we load you up with weapons to compensate for your fear of members of the public who are also potentially armed. Or whatever it is that scares these sorts of lawmen. Black people, I could cynically speculate (note dark sarcasm).
Arrest the officer who killed this man, and put him in the dock like any other murderer.
If this actually took place, the civil unrest would never have arisen, let alone been an issue.
I've not followed the progression of this case very closely - but it seems that police closed ranks around the perpetrator of this killing immediately, refusing to even release the officer's name.
You want a plan? Sort out the American justice system - for a start.
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