Re:Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They S...
by icc97 on Thursday February 01, 2018 @10:08AM
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Perhaps I'm taking what you say too literally, but you couldn't equate it with murder. It would be mass attempted manslaughter. So it would have to be at that level.
That's not to say we shouldn't treat it as seriously just that it's a different intent.
Re:Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They S...
by TeMPOraL on Thursday February 01, 2018 @10:13AM
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Yeah, I meant the less literate version. It's obviously not murder, but I believe it should be treated at least as seriously.
Re:Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They S...
by Fnoord on Sunday February 04, 2018 @04:52PM
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Murder? Quite frankly, that's either akin to terrorism or it is terrorism. It destabilises entire regions of harmless civilians.
The CIA did this as well in Central and South America in the previous century. They got away with it as well, of course. The series Narcos and movies American Made and Che Part One and Che Part Two are albeit partly about these subjects. Not to mention more recently the collateral murder video.
I'm not entirely sure why? I guess if you got the military and economic high ground you get away with doing things like that?
I increasingly believe there are kinds of anti-system crimes which should be punished with highest sentences. I'm thinking of crimes that have disproportionate, negative impact on stability and security of society. Like this. Or fucking with vaccinations, like CIA people did.
(Incidentally, I also believe that the guy responsible for fake bomb detectors (from the other thread on the frontpage today) should get at minimum a murder-level sentence, for willfully putting lives of lots of people in danger.)