On Wednesday, July 10, 2019 at 11:00:03 PM UTC+1, AMuzi wrote:

Today's world doesn't have much intermediate education
process between nothing and shot dead.

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Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

That's an indictment of an entire society. Armed police who go in fear of their lives are likely to react with lethal force.

Except when I lived part of every year in the States, and in a couple of political exiles when I lived in South America, where the violence is merely less well-organised than in the States, I've always lived in places where the bobby on the beat goes unarmed and fearless, and is (or at least was) as likely to clip a teenage hooligan in the ear and send him on his way to sin no more rather than criminalise him for life by sending him to the criminal grad school of jail. And corruption was the bobby on the beat helping himself to an apple in passing the greengrocer and not paying for it.

I rather miss those fearless societies. Which is why I like living in rural Ireland and rural France, because there they still persist.

Andre Jute
Come back, Officer Krupsky, all is forgiven