| How many American petty thieves or "political enemies" have had their hands chopped off?
How many, (or better, what percentage of the entire population!) have in Arab countries?
I don't recall anyone on this site thinking the U.S. had any legitimate national security interest in Iraq, but these arguments seem to be broader, societal arguments, and am I the only one who sees the difference between us and them?
And you're right, Mia, the vast majority of those functioning in any capacity, way before you shave their head, dress them in uniform and pin-on a tin star, will readily condone and/or commit all manner of atrocities all under the umbrella of "just following orders"....
We're all familiar with the Zimbardo and Milgram experiments...
That's why I think there's creative, nonviolent popular methods to geting the domestic terror situation under control that would be short-term, self-limiting in severity and effective, without creating the larger and more pernicious sociological after-effects of our present strong-arm tactics that we'll never get rid of.
By the way, before you even remotely advocate anything to do with hiring any government agent for whateverpurpose, especially "security", remember that the boys in the Zimbardo experiment or the average men in the Milgram experiment were carefully screened and not already motivated by being short, having had their lunch money stolen, or being picked-on in the schoolyard growing-up as are the poorly-educated snot-nosed, head-shaved punks swarming my college campus going into "criminal justice"
Don't be a sleestak |