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To: VRing

As we have learned over and over, the initial news reports of events are not reliable. I will watch the progress of this and see what the facts are after our journalist friends finish screwing up the initial reports and provide something like accuracy.

After all the facts are in, then I will make an informed judgement about the guilt or innocence of any accused be they police or civilians.

We as a society have made the decision to accept people going “nuts and killing bunches of folks”. We let them all out of the state mental institutions in the sixties and now we have our intermittent attrocities.

There will be some on the left who want to emphasize that this is a cop to further degrade our faith in our law enforcement institutions. It is not unknown, even in the state of Wisconsin for the media and our political leaders to make snap judgements about the activities of the police in valid law enforcement situations.

Both now and then, I probably will avoid smearing every reader of a fairly widely read website the way you just have. Perhaps you think it is better to react like Nifong and the Duke LaCross case or Murtha and the Haditha Marines, but that isn’t mark of a citizen who values a “system of justice”


56 posted on 10/07/2007 11:36:56 AM PDT by sgtyork (The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage. Thucydides)
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To: sgtyork
As we have learned over and over, the initial news reports of events are not reliable. I will watch the progress of this and see what the facts are after our journalist friends finish screwing up the initial reports and provide something like accuracy.

My experience doesn't alway agree with this. CNN is actually pretty accurate on breaking stories between 1 AM and 6 AM, before management is in to "properly" spin the story...

Of course, YMMV.

62 posted on 10/07/2007 11:40:56 AM PDT by null and void (I've embarrassed my species again...)
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To: sgtyork
We as a society have made the decision to accept people going “nuts and killing bunches of folks”. We let them all out of the state mental institutions in the sixties and now we have our intermittent attrocities.

*sigh* Yeah. The liberals viewed this as an act of kindness to release these lunatics from 'enforced' care.

They really aren't very good at foreseeing consequences are they?

Example: "Impeach Bush" = "I'm for President Cheney"...

66 posted on 10/07/2007 11:45:49 AM PDT by null and void (I've embarrassed my species again...)
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To: sgtyork; VRing
"I probably will avoid smearing every reader of a fairly widely read website the way you just have"

That isn't what Vring did. Bear false witness much?


88 posted on 10/07/2007 12:08:56 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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