It's convenient for the police that the people with whom they come in contact self-select for having criminal law problems: a built-in excuse for any breach of professionalism, as well as instances of shocking incompetence and brutality. He was high and had passed a fake 20 (so I strangled him till he was dead). He had expired tags and an outstanding warrant (so I meant to tase him, only by mistake I shot him instead). A 13-year-old with a gun was running from me, so I chased and yelled for him to drop it and show his hands, which he did (and then I shot him anyway).
This is the kind of thing I'm talking about. Odd how people who insist they need guns for self-defense, including against a tyrannical government, reflexively defend government agents who kill people.
The same author, John Hinderaker, has an even more recent article that runs beneath the headline "Voters say: election fraud is a problem." Better headline would be: "Wingnuts cite their own delusions in support of voter suppression laws."
Another thing that seems odd is the way in which Republicans insist Democrats favor immigration as a means of recruiting new voters and "consolidating power." For some reason, they seem to think that brown-skinned immigrants who are disproportionately Catholic with conservative social views would never vote for them, the "conservative" party. It's almost as if Republican views, on this topic and that one, don't hang together very well—unless one is so bold as to introduce the topic of race into the equation. But they assure us race has nothing to do with it. In that case, instead of suppressing votes, they should be sensing opportunity and trying to persuade these new voters to choose them. It's the American way, ffs.
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