There is a due process, whether the accused have badges or not. It takes some time for investigators to determine how Gray sustained his injuries and who, if anyone, is responsible.
Violent Protests in Baltimore
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There is a due process, whether the accused have badges or not. It takes some time for investigators to determine how Gray sustained his injuries and who, if anyone, is responsible.
For one thing, there needs to be near-total cultural awareness that racially-driven police abuse exists, and it is neither isolated nor rare, but essentially the status quo in many heavily-black cities and neighborhoods.
Too many people don't even seem to think this exists. You can't fix reality when you haven't even woken up to it yet.
The "due process" you speak of is, in most parts of the US, a complete joke. That is, unless you believe 99% of all killings by police are justified.
I don't even know what you're talking about. What stricter rules do you suggest :everyone else" follow?
No, it's not something you can achieve. Not without a level of Big Brother-level policing of Food Stamp benefits that puts the lie to any notion that the proponents of "ending the War on Poverty" are champions of personal liberty and the individual making their own informed decisions. But then we already know that because many of the same people want to tell adult citizens who they can sleep with and marry, if they can use birth control and what substances they put into their own bodies.
If we descend into the kind of country that tells a Food Stamp recipient that they can't buy a steak of a bag of potato chips then we'll have more than deserved the leaders who conned us into passing that legislation.
If we descend into the kind of country that tells a Food Stamp recipient that they can't buy a steak of a bag of potato chips then we'll have more than deserved the leaders who conned us into passing that legislation.
Everyone that receives taxpayer benefits should also be willing to be micromanaged.
The thread is about police brutality. There are two different debates being had right now.
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What do you mean? Should I not be allowed to buy myself a steak or luxury items because poor people who use my tax dollars shouldn't be able to buy luxury items with money that isn't theirs?
You are correct, but if the "due process" worked the same way for the Average Joe as it does for the police then there would be very few jails.
Tiger Devil Dog, every day you are using services paid for by other people. For example when you post, you are using electricity that is generated or transmitted by companies that are directly controlled by local governments or subsidized by the state - using my tax dollars. You are typing on a keyboard which was either built in the US by a company that received my tax dollars as a construction incentive or was shipped into the US through a port that is supported by my tax dollars and transported over roads supported by my tax dollars. I could go on, but I think you get the picture. At what point do I get to tell you how to live your life?
In any case...having a negative attitude towards those who circumstances cause them to need assistance does not help anyone, and can cause a person to regard the poor as less than human.
You use my tax money when you use the roads you drive on or the sidewalks you walk on. Why shouldn't I be able to micromanage your affairs?
How do you suggest we reach this "near-total cultural awareness?"
When I drive on roads there are rules that I have to follow, so my driving and walking habits are managed.
Looks to me like black people tearing shit up is doing a lot of the heavy lifting lately.
It's obvious that asking nicely, "please stop killing us," doesn't work.
It effectively becomes their money when it's transferred to the recipient, just likes all subsidies to both poor and rich in this country. You can complain and you can lobby your elected representatives to change the rules if there are enough people who think the way you do to get the politicians to listen, but once it's in their hands it stops being our business unless they do something horribly illegal and/or downright destructive to life and property with it.
There are already rules that people who are on Food Stamps have to follow. A little research on your end could be helpful in your understanding of, really, any issue you talk about.
So black people looting and stealing and destroying private property is going to fix this problem? Interesting
If they can use food stamps to buy anything other than basic nutritional needs then there obviously aren't enough rules.
Again, violent protest is expressive, not effective.
But not doing what you think the cops want you to do, i.e., tearing stuff up in your own neighborhood, might garner more sympathy.
What if, once in the neighborhoods, the protesters simply sat down and refused to move? No violent motions. Just sitting there, silent as the dead?
What if, once in the neighborhoods, the protesters simply sat down and refused to move? No violent motions. Just sitting there, silent as the dead?
Food Stamp abuse and fraud comprise such a small minority of program users that it's just another red herring used by cultural conservatives to create scapegoats and draw attention away from far more endemic and systematic abuse of federal funds by people with real power and influence. Most Food Stamp cheats and abusers are caught and properly punished for breaking the rules and the law.
Buying shrimp cocktail or an expensive frozen pizza with Food Stamps should never be a violation of those rules and laws.
Buying shrimp cocktail or an expensive frozen pizza with Food Stamps should never be a violation of those rules and laws.
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