Should we call these “Peace” Officers?

Intent on stoking emotional fires of stress and fear upon the American people, police in Washington, DC this week, quick to shoot first and ask questions later, even if the answers must be sought via autopsy, were cast in the role of accommodators in what may have been a case of “suicide by cop.”

Miriam Carey, unarmed, whose “accomplice” was her 1-year old child, drove through a “random checkpoint” that law enforcement authorities set up near the White House, as part of U.S.A Theater Company’s “Government on Furlough” program.

The entire mainstream media machine, from the NY Times and NBC News, to the Times of London and Sydney Morning Herald, appeared intent on finding a way to make the actions that law enforcement took, appear appropriate.

Having lost their ability to assess a “real threat” when they see one, they are reduced to making their policy of deadly reaction where compassion is actually needed, sound as though it was the “right and proper thing to do.”

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