Recent ICE shootings (or is it CBP? There are a lot of armed TLAs under DHS and they're not making it easy to keep track) are all over the news, and statements and counter-statements fly back and forth, accompanied by at least three authentic videos of events in Minneapolis.
I'm not going to rehash it. You can get all of that you can stand elsewhere, free for nothing and often worth the price.
Nope. I'm going to give you another incident, one in which Americans, trouble-makers and sincerely concerned citizens alike, taunted and challenged armed agents of the government, and things went horribly wrong.
Draw your own lessons from it -- about who we are, and what we have become; about governments and the use of force; about law, order and morality.
Update
1 year ago
3 comments:
Didn’t even need to click the link.
Most of the old “gunblogger” crew aren’t worthy to carry John Adams jock strap to the laundromat.
In that case the court concluded the government agents acted within the law…
Joe
Clearly, the Crown still has its defenders. But you're wrong on the facts and wrong on the focus. And wrong on the standards for the determination of guilt in a criminal trial.
Two soldiers, who were definitively shown to have fired into the crowd, were found guilty of manslaughter; this would have resulted in execution, but it was their first offense and under British law at the time, they invoked benefit of clergy and were branded on their thumbs instead. It could not be be shown that the officer in charge had ordered the soldiers to fire, so he was acquitted; likewise, soldiers who were not proven to have fired at people were acquitted.
The incident is generally held to be pivotal in motivating the Revolutionary cause -- and the trial, in upholding a tradition of fair, impartial and cautious justice.
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