Oscar Grant was sentenced to death, today.
[how it would have gone, had Grant shot Mehserle]
Crow's Eye: Maintaining a commitment to Pointless Acrimony™ and Hate Filled Invective™! Also available in corvid mischief and traditional sly dog's mistrust.
This is one of those times it sucks to agree with you. But agree I must. Does the inequity strike enough people, and strike them deeply enough?
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ReplyDeleteI don't think many people really care. Perhaps I'm jaded beyond all sensibility; but the popularity of cop shows would seem to confirm my impression. Americans root for uniformed thugs, especially when they're fucking up the Other...
Respect,
Jack
Yeah, that's why it sucks to agree with you. Because it means most everyone else just doesn't care. And they are the ones who will say,
ReplyDelete"What are you talking about, civil rights infractions and personal privacy invasions? If you are a good honest citizen you have nothing to fear because you have nothing to hide."
That I have to live among such people, and that they have to be in the majority, this is not an uplifting point of reality.
Agreed, Charles. It was having repeated discussions like the above, in law school that shocked and horrified me enough to drop the last shreds of my "good moderate"-ness. I went into criminal defense, and the reaction of most upstanding, self-described liberal citizens to learning this is always to crinkle their noses like I've just farted. It is very sad.
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