10-01-2014, 02:44 PM
I missed the inevitable spiral into racism. Shame.
Anyway, the thing that disturbed me most about the whole thing was the medias involvement, but that's always the case, so no surprises there. Was at home for a few days this week and had a long and heated debate about this, and the thing we all agreed on is how worrying the control the awful media in this country has over the population.
In my eyes there is never a justification to kill someone unless they have a weapon pointed at you and are clearly prepared to shoot you, but I guess that's why I'll never be a member of the armed plod. Maybe he did, but what I've heard suggests he didn't at the time of death, but like you say that's why the verdict was Lawful, as we don't really know and it was deemed reasonable force. I'm not arguing against that, if the courts say it was lawful then fine, but those people celebrating, or justifying the death of any individual (apart from Thatcher, anyway
), regardless of circumstance need to take a look at themselves. Cue people talking about Hitler...
Repeating myself again, but I do NOT condone the damage to the property of innocent civilians, however I haven't got it in me to speak against people rioting with the police who have been oppressing them, that seems reasonable to me, especially seeing as they were generally outnumbered and outgunned.
Anyway, the thing that disturbed me most about the whole thing was the medias involvement, but that's always the case, so no surprises there. Was at home for a few days this week and had a long and heated debate about this, and the thing we all agreed on is how worrying the control the awful media in this country has over the population.
In my eyes there is never a justification to kill someone unless they have a weapon pointed at you and are clearly prepared to shoot you, but I guess that's why I'll never be a member of the armed plod. Maybe he did, but what I've heard suggests he didn't at the time of death, but like you say that's why the verdict was Lawful, as we don't really know and it was deemed reasonable force. I'm not arguing against that, if the courts say it was lawful then fine, but those people celebrating, or justifying the death of any individual (apart from Thatcher, anyway
), regardless of circumstance need to take a look at themselves. Cue people talking about Hitler...Repeating myself again, but I do NOT condone the damage to the property of innocent civilians, however I haven't got it in me to speak against people rioting with the police who have been oppressing them, that seems reasonable to me, especially seeing as they were generally outnumbered and outgunned.
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