After all, given the state of the American Press, this would be P.R. Suicide for the Police.
It would, unless enough fear of these people can be spread among the general population. If you can make the people scared enough of
Naw, it still wouldn't matter.
Who lost their job over the Waco massacre? Who was even repremanded?
The biggest difference is that the WTO protesters are protesting a great evil, while the people at Waco *were* the great evil. (no, I don't believe that, but if you've got half a brain, you'll see my point). -- http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/psp7761121.html It is one of the essential features of such incompetence that the person so afflicted is incapable of knowing that he is incompetent. To have such knowledge would already be to remedy a good portion of the offense.