Posted on 06/19/2013 8:32:15 AM PDT by Altariel
I keep thinking of the scene in “V for Vendetta” when the fascist police see a little girl spray paint a wall. They approach. She runs. They shoot her in the back.
And suddenly the crowd of complacent sheeple turn and start walking toward the cops. And the cops hold up their badges to cow the people.
And the people keep walking toward the cops. Because suddenly things are different.
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Don’t ever forget that there is only one reason things are different in V for Vendetta. V assassinated all the oppressors so when the cops turned to get orders from the top, the top is gone.
It was not the people rising up that caused the revolution in V, it was V and what he did.
It strikes me as absolutely delusional, and moreover, hypocritical, as he is using the off duty police officer's status as a "government employee" to automatically condemn him, regardless of the facts.
What we do know from the news story is this:
The officer laid his bike down to avoid hitting the kids.
The officer was injured from the accident.
The officer immediately began trying to give first aid.
The officer was attacked.
The officer defended himself.
I don't see how anyone who claims to support conservative causes, the right to self defense (which a "government employee" still has), or the Second Amendment, can categorically and unjustifiably attack what the officer did, unless there was some underlying delusion and irrational hatred of the police.
On this point, looking through the posting history of the OP reveals much. Virtually every story he posts on FR deals with an attack on the police. Usually in the context relating to the shooting of a dog.
I assume that the poster has had a bad run-in with the police and thus feels that he can regain dignity and empowerment by posting hit and run comments on message boards (keyboard warrior syndrome).
Why else would one post a story from a year ago in a news forum? One in which there appears to be little controversy other than in the mind of the OP?
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