nobody is interested in the truth

The thing about those boards that investigate wrongful police behavior is that they are staffed by cops, or ex-cops, or people affiliated with cops, and they almost never find the cop guilty. Like you said it’s a dangerous job, and I am inclined to cut the cops a break, if the subject is fighting back I am willing to give them considerable leeway, but once the guy is subdued, I think they have to stop whaling on him. And like you said there are good cops who make mistakes, but don’t we all have to pay for our mistakes, and just like there are some bad bus drivers and bad substitute teachers there are some bad cops.

What I am saying is that sometimes the cops are going to be right and sometimes they are going to be wrong, and it may be that they are right more than they are wrong, but I don’t believe that they are almost never wrong.

When you say: Every time one of these incidents occurs, it is assumed that the White guy was in the wrong and the Black guy was in the right you are only half correct. The side that believes black people are getting the short end of the stick, believes the white guy was in the wrong. But the side that believes black people have it just fine and they should stop complaining believe the white guy is the right. The part you have right is that neither side has much interest in examining evidence that might go against their opinions. Not everybody, there are a few reasonable people like you and me, but for the most part people just line up on their side. We could invent some incident and then go down a list of politicians and commentators and know what each was going to say before the incident was even announced.

I don’t know if you’ve read about this story that The Rolling Stone published about these rapes that took place in a University of Virginia frat house, that scandalized everybody and later turned out not to be true at all. The person writing the story was taking the word of some woman who has turned out to be a big liar, and did no real investigation of her own.

Well this is terrible, terrible behavior, terrible journalism. The Rolling Stone has repudiated the story but not very harshly, and there is an undercurrent from the politically correct strain of the left that, well we all know that rape goes on all the time and that it is terrible, so that even if this story is untrue, it really doesn’t matter because it is on the right side of the issue, so we shouldn’t come down hard on the author. And as a matter of fact since the author is a woman and since it is a woman’s issue thing, anybody who criticizes it is some kind of sexist pig.

I hate this shit. The example I gave is a bad from the left, but the right does this stuff too. A lot of people on both sides think it is just a war between the right and the left, and facts or logic are only useful if they are on your side.

I know you haven’t been reading the reports on torture because there is plenty of evidence, there is a shit load of evidence, the perpetrators admit it. Their argument is that it wasn’t really torture it was Enhanced Interrogation. But waterboarding, sleep deprivation, chaining in painful positions for days, and that thing where they pureed some guy’s lunch and then forced it up his ass, sound like torture to me.

The reason that nobody is going to the big house for this is basically Obama has other fish to fry and no heart for the huge battle that would result from trying to bring these bad actors to justice. It is by no means proof that this shit, which like I said, they admit, didn’t happen.

We did it, we will probably do it again. We are just like every other country. There is nothing exceptional about us, so we should probably shut our mouths up about that.

When I said I had a soul, I didn’t mean anything like a religious soul, I just meant awareness. I am aware of my existence the way I assume a rock is not. I haven’t read anything about the pope declaring that animals have souls, and can go to heaven. Like you said would only the catholic animals go to heaven, what about the ones who had sinned? I will have to investigate this.