Trigger warning for torture spray:
…were shot in broad daylight in the middle of 5th Avenue long ago.
I highly recommend you listen to or read this story.
Highlights:
TOM GJELTEN, BYLINE: William Barr’s address to the religious broadcasters in Nashville yesterday cited the early Christian theologian Saint Augustine, the French writer Alexis de Tocqueville and the framers of the U.S. Constitution - all serving to challenge the notion that government exists to make society more just.
WILLIAM BARR: The framers would have seen a one-size-fits-all government for hundreds of millions of people, of diverse citizens as being utterly unworkable and the straight road to tyranny.
BARR: The tacit goal of this project is to convert all of us into 25-year-olds living in the government’s basement.
GJELTEN: Barr told the religious broadcasters it was up to them to counter what he called the monolithic power of the corporate mainstream press whose journalists, he said, have come to see themselves less as objective reporters of the facts and more as agents of change. He told the broadcasters they are one of the last holdouts in the consolidation of viewpoints.
So he does think there should be a one-size-fits-all government, as long as it’s tyrannical enough against The Other (which is most of us).
He’s a real piece of work.
I still don’t know why the government comes down hard on some domestic terrorists but let these guys run rampant even during a supposed war on terror and the government’s just like ‘okay, whatev.’ They get a real kick out of getting away with the rules of society not applying to them.
I can kind of identify with them in the sense of rebelliousness, I have a bit of that in me. And I suppose under normal conditions, it’d be reasonable to think it’s better to just let them do their stupid posturing, as long as they aren’t hurting anybody. The alternative of making martyrs of them could be bad.
But when they’re actively trying to infect and kill people, that’s a different story. They’re enemies of the state. 9/11 was a small isolated incident compared to the results of exponential spread of a disease. Actively seeking to get infected and spread it is an attempt to wield a biological weapon, and they should be treated as bioterrorists.
They are white men.
Can anyone read the docs?
This help?