"We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibilities." Edward R. Murrow
Friday, December 16, 2011
A Reckoning With Reality
How is it that so many can cling to the illusion that cops and soldiers--grownups, armed with deadly weaponry, and who have shown themselves willing to engage in acts of state sanctioned violence and oppression--are innocent victims of circumstance? Have we, in this nation, lost the concept of free will?
How did the perspective of a people become so upside down that heavily armed, body armor-enswathed men and women wearing uniforms of state power are viewed as blameless innocents while those they perpetrate brutality against are somehow regarded as the aggressors in the situation…deserving of the violence inflicted upon them?
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