RANDY RANTS AGAINST THE HOWLING MOBS IN MISSOURI.
Our founding fathers used those very words to warn us against mob rule and mob influence. Collectively we are much more evil than we are individually, a fact long ago described by Rhinhold Niebur in his book "Moral Man and Immoral Society. The street rage in Ferguson, Missouri proves the point---in spades. They are enraged and irrational---and probably DEAD WRONG in their assumptions about the death of that youth. They have given no thought the central question of how a policeman is supposed to deal with an attack. Should the policeman "fight him fair"? Not use his weapon.? This kid could possibly have killed the policeman.
The message that should go out to anyone dealing with a policeman is that TO RESIST ARREST IS TO RISK DEATH. If you did no wrong---if you have been misunderstood---you will have a chance to explain an justify yourself.
I know whereof I speak here because I have made more than 200 arrests on the streets of New Orleans and three times I have been put in fear of my life. Once in Desire Street Project, I was surrounded by by a crowd of angry blacks. Luckily, backup arrived just in time.
Most of us have cause to be angry---about lots of things---economic injustice primarily. We should, from time to time, take to the streets in peaceful protest. But this issue is the wrong one to mobilize around. I predict that in the end it will be judged by the courts to be "A JUSTIFIABLE SHOOT".
Our founding fathers used those very words to warn us against mob rule and mob influence. Collectively we are much more evil than we are individually, a fact long ago described by Rhinhold Niebur in his book "Moral Man and Immoral Society. The street rage in Ferguson, Missouri proves the point---in spades. They are enraged and irrational---and probably DEAD WRONG in their assumptions about the death of that youth. They have given no thought the central question of how a policeman is supposed to deal with an attack. Should the policeman "fight him fair"? Not use his weapon.? This kid could possibly have killed the policeman.
The message that should go out to anyone dealing with a policeman is that TO RESIST ARREST IS TO RISK DEATH. If you did no wrong---if you have been misunderstood---you will have a chance to explain an justify yourself.
I know whereof I speak here because I have made more than 200 arrests on the streets of New Orleans and three times I have been put in fear of my life. Once in Desire Street Project, I was surrounded by by a crowd of angry blacks. Luckily, backup arrived just in time.
Most of us have cause to be angry---about lots of things---economic injustice primarily. We should, from time to time, take to the streets in peaceful protest. But this issue is the wrong one to mobilize around. I predict that in the end it will be judged by the courts to be "A JUSTIFIABLE SHOOT".
HOWLING MOBS---A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY
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August 19, 2014
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