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Reply #5: What if this shooting had taken place in the US?
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IndianaGreen
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Mon Jul-25-05 04:55 AM
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5. What if this shooting had taken place in the US? |
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The Latino community would be in an uproar with charges of racial profiling flying in every direction. In one of my posts to the shooting story in LBN I asked if the British security services were under the command of Frank Rizzo, the late Philadelphia mayor and chief of police who made his mark by defending several racially motivated shootings.
I am reminded of the words of Benjamin Franklin who cautioned that those that surrendered their liberties for the sake of security would get neither.
As to the OP, had this shooting taken place in Tel Aviv, I doubt that we would be hearing the same defense of the shoot-at-anyone-with-brown-skin orders that we got from Chief of Police Blair (any relation to the poodle?).
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