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In reply to the discussion: Why couldn't they have given this blind man a ride home or notified his family. [View all]Ol Janx Spirit
(907 posts)31. How you can go home, kiss your spouse, play with your kids, and probably go to church on Sunday...
...and sit in the pews with everyone else blindly reciting The Lord's Prayer, and then get up in the morning and go unleash cruelty on people the State--and obviously you--have deemed mere animals and not humans deserving of any care, respect, or mercy, is beyond anything I can imagine.
It reminds me of the movies that senior Nazi officials made of themselves on holiday having a good laugh with friends at lavish picnics while their beautifully clothed children played in the field nearby while their regime was building and running the most horrific factories of death imaginable in the beautiful countryside of occupied lands.
It is a disgusting split screen that we have seen many times in history.
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Why couldn't they have given this blind man a ride home or notified his family. [View all]
Dunc
Thursday
OP
And no one loses their job over this. Kids working at McDonalds face more accountability.
Tim S
Thursday
#3
Hearings about madness nameless thugs? Theyve been dropping their kidnap victims on the street everywhere
BlueWaveNeverEnd
Thursday
#5
This is so inhumane it's mind boggling. Temperatures have been so cold there was no way he would survive.
Vinca
Thursday
#12
Goons with a license to kill. they knew EXACTLY what they were doing. Cruelty is the point.
flying_wahini
Thursday
#16
It's not complicated, it's just different arms of the state inflicting violence on citizens.
WhiskeyGrinder
Thursday
#24
I did read the whole article. State violence in the form of cops beat him and tased him, and were the reason he was
WhiskeyGrinder
Thursday
#44
"Apparently you think ICE left him out in the cold, and that's all we need to know about it. Period."
WhiskeyGrinder
Thursday
#46
It's not clear to me why you think I didn't read the whole article -- what info am I missing?
WhiskeyGrinder
21 hrs ago
#51
"I'm just saying if the title says all one needs to know...... ...there's no reason to read further. According to you."
WhiskeyGrinder
19 hrs ago
#54
No explanation needed. We're good. Sending you strength during your treatments.
WhiskeyGrinder
11 hrs ago
#57
This done everyday all over the nation. Cops leave released peisoners in dark and dangerous places, miles from home ...
marble falls
Thursday
#26
Given that kraznov's #1 mission is to destroy the USA for pootin, why would they bother?
SheltieLover
Thursday
#29
They do it for purely bad reasons: They don't want to and don't have to. It's just another way to punish ...
marble falls
Thursday
#37
How you can go home, kiss your spouse, play with your kids, and probably go to church on Sunday...
Ol Janx Spirit
Thursday
#31