CDR: Re: SWAT Team Guns Down 11 Year Old In His Own Home

[Tim May]

At 1:55 AM -0400 9/16/00, David Marshall wrote:
>
>How very odd. If I stop a psychopath from gunning down an entire mall
>full of people by shooting him a few times in the back, the government
>would most likely have me arrested, hauled downtown for questioning,
>and I would be demonized by the media. I might even be charged for
>some bullshit "weapons violation." And HEAVEN FORBID that in the
>process of stopping dozens of people from being killed one of my
>bullets go through the gunman and hit a bystander, or that I simply
>miss and hit a bystander. In that case, the USG and courts wouldn't
>care how many lives I saved. They wouldn't say "shit happens" and let
>me off the hook. There would be national outrage probably.
>
>Yet the government can execute a predawn raid in a residential area
>and shoot an 11-year-old (doubtless wielding an "assault pencil") with
>a shotgun in the back? No questions asked, no national media coverage,
>no national outrage? Disgusting.
>
>Oh, I forgot. It was a drug raid, and it was executed by the USG.
>That makes it all okay. Particularly that last part.


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