The emphasis media puts on innocence in our state crimes of kidnapping bothers me.
Human rights law means _nobody_ gets kidnapped by the state. It doesn’t matter whether you’re the scum of the earth. You are treated according to the law. That’s the whole difference between justice and a mafia boss.
I mean, I know it feels different. Kidnapping a known gang leader feels like a crime which is the infinity of all even numbers. Kidnapping a harmless bystander feels like the infinity of every number there is. It feels bigger and worse. But, really, if you’re the perp, it’s the same crime.
It doesn’t feel different for me. Every time I see someone who did a terrible violent thing, I feel for their lives and how they got that way.
Yeah. Me too. I meant the media coverage, which to me tends to sound like they wouldn’t care at all if it was certain the victims were real gangsters.
I can’t get over how quickly and quietly we (meaning USA) fell into the mode of secret police and breaking-down-doors-in-the-night.
The emphasis media puts on innocence in our state crimes of kidnapping bothers me.
Human rights law means _nobody_ gets kidnapped by the state. It doesn’t matter whether you’re the scum of the earth. You are treated according to the law. That’s the whole difference between justice and a mafia boss.
I mean, I know it feels different. Kidnapping a known gang leader feels like a crime which is the infinity of all even numbers. Kidnapping a harmless bystander feels like the infinity of every number there is. It feels bigger and worse. But, really, if you’re the perp, it’s the same crime.
It doesn’t feel different for me. Every time I see someone who did a terrible violent thing, I feel for their lives and how they got that way.
Yeah. Me too. I meant the media coverage, which to me tends to sound like they wouldn’t care at all if it was certain the victims were real gangsters.
I can’t get over how quickly and quietly we (meaning USA) fell into the mode of secret police and breaking-down-doors-in-the-night.