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All it took was stomach-wrenching police brutality and murder!
My job is weird. And terrible.
But people are watching the video, right? Most of the top ten viewed Reason posts of all time are about police brutality (with a few about legalization of marijuana). I think this is a good sign.
So why does this keep happening? And being forgiven? This thing where power kills (and imprisons).
Why is Romney or Obama (but likely Obama) going to win in November?
Why am I so sure that a bunch of my friends who pretend to despise politics, who are disappointed in Obama, who say they hate all this, that they are going to go chickenshit and vote for him again, or for the first time?
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Medics, not cops, to blame for death of Kelly Thomas, defense says →
The lawyer for one of the Fullerton policemen charged in the beating of a mentally ill homeless man suggested Tuesday that it was medical professionals –- not police officers -– who are to blame for the death of Kelly Thomas.
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Top photo, the injuries of Officer Ramos who had described his altercation with Kelly Thomas as “the right of his life.”
Bottom photo, Kelly Thomas.
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Seriously, as both a fan of the Beasties and a non-fan of Obama, what I really want more than anything is to keep those topics separate, because they have nothing to do with one another, on account of politics being a tawdry zero-sum game and music being totally awesome.
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I know freedom isn’t free
But holy shit libertarian gatherings are expensive as fuck if you’re not a student. Dudes, I am not rich. I want to celebrate freedom petty infighting, but I cannot afford it!
Freedomfest, Libertopia, Porcfest, I want to go to all of ‘em but I have no money and many work hours.
At least one of them, there should be a Reason-y excuse to go.
So much wanderlust right now.
Did you know it’s possible to be agoraphobic and full of wanderlust at the same time? I am a God damn miracle I am.
Live! From the Hit and Run comments section!
PM|5.5.12 @ 8:40PM|#
Ms. Steigerwald,
Your piece here could be a white paper on the libertarian foreign policy position, it’s hardly unique. And it is absolutely pollyannaish - almost to the point of comedy the more you elucidate it.
In addition to believing that there would be no international aggressors if the United States followed a strictly isolationist foreign policy (dubious at best based on history), you are seriously suggesting that it’s possible to conduct a retaliatory war (in the impossible event that there might just be people out there in the world who would attack and murder the denizens of your libertarian Utopia just because they are fucked in the head and not for any reasons you can justify as “blowback”) without collateral damage or civilian casualties? Like I said, I’d love to see it, if for no other reason than to smugly bask in your astonishment from my perch of cynicism like the Grinch watching Cyndi Lou Who discover there is no santa claus. It’s absolutely befuddling to me that an adult of your intelligence and political persuasion could possibly be so naive.
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Also, I didn’t mean to suggest that pacifism was self-loathing. Pacifism is pacifism. Self-loathing is self-loathing. Internalizing blame for the irrationally violent actions of others like a battered woman who stays with her abusive partner is the self-loathing behavior, not the pacifism. It’s completely possible to recognize that the government is a piece of shit without projecting victimhood onto murderous religious thugs and convincing yourself you deserved what you got.
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