I saw a very disturbing video today about a man and a knife.
And yes, some people will take anything to hurt other people when they go amok.
Here, there is a mentally disturbed man that had been surrounded by dozens of police officers for 30 minutes, it was not a surprise attack.
And I'm appalled :
- are the police force
so inefficient, so badly trained, that even with the protections they were wearing weren't able to cope with a deranged citizen?
- are the members of the police force in the US so confident in their being cleared of any misconduct that they shoot first, or are they so cowardly that even when they outnumber a poor creep by the dozen they kill, kill, kill?
- I'm appalled at the man on the left, turning round with a smile on his face when the man has just been killed, as if he had watched a funny show on TV. What kind of society is that where people laugh at other people's death?
- watch the kid in her mother's arm: she's watching the scene. I can understand that watching a man being slaughtered can arouse someone's unhealthy curiousness. But
what kind of future is she preparing for her child?
Oscar Wilde once said "
America Is the Only Country That Went from Barbarism to Decadence Without Civilization In Between". I've always thought that he was exaggerating, but sometimes, and even more so these days when I see the kind of stupid racist crook half the population is ready to endorse, I wonder if the US of A isn't going from decadence to barbarism...