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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 20 2013 @ 07:05 PM EDT |
| Who fired most of the 200 rounds? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 20 2013 @ 07:59 PM EDT |
While I do not agree that no rights are absolute, I do believe that no rights
violated by the lockdown and searches are. I do believe however that these
rights where violated without anywhere near sufficient cause, and that this is a
case where the police crossed the line by a very large distance.
Your argument using the amount of bullets fired and an improvised bomb being
thrown is plain wrong in my opinion for two reasons, the first being as pointed
out in another response to you, those 200 bullets were almost entirely fired by
police, not the suspects. The second being the suspects were defending
themselves, as is their right (an absolute right in my opinion), and not
engaging the police aggressively (from what I know).
Your underlying argument that it was for the peoples protection is also highly
flawed in many ways in my opinion. People have the right to do many things such
as travel freely, congregate/assemble, ect. and those rights were violated by
the lock down, there is however no duty to remain safe, there is no cause for
violating their rights therefore, so while it would be appropriate to warn
people of the terrorist in the area, threatening anyone who tried to go outside
until they returned inside (with how it might escalate being unclear as no one
tested it but as they have assault rifles all over...) is a clear violation of
their rights. Further, as donut shop workers (and to my knowledge ONLY donut
shop workers) were encouraged to still go to work (to feed the police....
because donuts are the best food to work on) there is clear evidence that at the
time the police knew that they were over-reacting, either that or they were
encouraging civilians to put themselves into highly dangerous situations, either
of which, shows a highly immoral decision (in my opinion).[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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