Re: Today's date in history...
calpoon said:
I see it all the time, today a guy got shot in the head for saying he had a bomb. we can talk all we want about how disasterous that could have been, but the fact is that someone was killed who had not commited a crime. lethal force should be a last resort and not an "offensive defense". this kind of goes against everything that our idea of justice is supposed to be about ( fair trail, innocent until proven guilty, etc.) and I don't think should be acceptible in any civilized soceity, in times of war or peace.
Way :2offtopic , but here goes my two cents.
Most citizens are kind, decent people who are not capable of hurting each other, except by accident or under extreme provocation. They are sheep. I honestly mean nothing negative by calling them sheep.
Then there are the wolves, and the wolves feed on the sheep without mercy. Do you believe there are wolves out there who will feed on the flock without mercy? You better believe it! There are evil men in this world and they are capable of evil deeds. The moment you forget that or pretend it is not so, you become a sheep. There is no safety in denial.
Then there are sheepdogs. Sheepdogs live to protect the flock and confront the wolf.
We know that the sheep live in denial, that is what makes them sheep. They do not want to believe that there is evil in the world. They believe it will not happen to them. Crime and violence happened to someone else, some where else. They can accept the fact that fires can happen, which is why they want fire extinguishers, fire sprinklers, fire alarms and fire exits throughout their kids' schools.
Many of them are outraged at the idea of putting an armed police officer in their kid's school. Our children are thousands of times more likely to be killed or seriously injured by school violence than fire, but the sheep's only response to the possibility of violence is denial. The idea of someone coming to kill or harm their child is just too hard, and so they chose the path of denial.
The sheep generally do not like the sheepdog. He looks a lot like the wolf. He has fangs and the capacity for violence. The difference, though, is that the sheepdog must not, can not and will not ever harm the sheep. Any sheep dog who intentionally harms the lowliest little lamb will be punished and removed. The world cannot work any other way, at least not in a representative democracy or a republic such as ours.
Still, the sheepdog disturbs the sheep. He is a constant reminder that there are wolves in the land. They would prefer that he didn't tell them where to go, or give them traffic tickets, or stand at the ready in our airports in camouflage fatigues holding an M-16. The sheep would much rather have the sheepdog cash in his fangs, spray paint himself white, and go, "Baa."
Until the wolf shows up. Then the entire flock tries desperately to hide behind one lonely sheepdog.
Which one are you?
You're right someone was killed today. The fact that after everything was said and done he was found to be unarmed does not change what the intentions of those two officers were. In that split second their intention was to save lives, not take it.
