09-16-2016, 10:20 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-16-2016, 10:21 AM by Anthony '58.)
But don't be so down on tort reform. It is actually the Fourth Turning solution to the Third Turning problem being highlighted by Black Lives Matter: The reason cops almost never "knee-cap" non-gun-wielding black suspects is because they fear that there would be lawsuits against both the individual police officer and the department as a whole if they did.
Tort reform would solve this problem - and just a couple of nights ago in the Bronx, a white police officer actually did "knee-cap" a knife-wielding, mentally-ill Hispanic subject; and a couple of weeks ago I saw a re-run of the '90s TV series Real Stories of the Highway Patrol in which a white Florida state trooper "knee-capped" a knife-wielding white suspect.
So Colin Kaepernick et al should be going to their state capitols to lobby for said tort reform, instead of engaging in behavior that scores of millions of older conservatives and national liberals conflate with advocating the violent overthrow of the government.
Tort reform would solve this problem - and just a couple of nights ago in the Bronx, a white police officer actually did "knee-cap" a knife-wielding, mentally-ill Hispanic subject; and a couple of weeks ago I saw a re-run of the '90s TV series Real Stories of the Highway Patrol in which a white Florida state trooper "knee-capped" a knife-wielding white suspect.
So Colin Kaepernick et al should be going to their state capitols to lobby for said tort reform, instead of engaging in behavior that scores of millions of older conservatives and national liberals conflate with advocating the violent overthrow of the government.
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892