Originally Posted by
AngryMiller
Law dawg, I read on a near daily basis of excesses including murder and beatings done by police officers on American citizens. Hear the one about the woman tending bar in the Chicago area? Beaten to a bloody pulp by an off duty cop because she refused to serve him after he became drunk. Nice guy, eh? Police officers shooting unarmed people in the back doesn't qualify for much in your book does it? But hey, it happens and quite often the police get a walk on the incident, because they are the police. Too bad that capital murder only seems to go one way in your book.
Officers that do that are scum. They deserve jail time. They don't deserve to be murdered. It's a little thing called "cruel and unusual punishment." I don't think that husbands that beat up their wives deserve execution either.
Shooting unarmed people in the back? Link, please. I need to read the story before I pass judgment.
But again, remember that Polonius wasn't talking about shooting cops who beat up people in bars or shoot people in the back. Their one and only crime was working a BP checkpoint. Context - it's very important.
You might read up on history and see what happens when the people throw off the yoke of oppressive government. Often it isn't pretty. Oh, but in your book I just called for the overthrow of the American government. No way.
Have a minor in History. Dad was History teacher in high school. I'm kinda familiar with it. Apparently you aren't so much because you don't really seem to know what oppressive really means if you think the US gov't is oppressive. Your frame of reference seems to be off kilter.