Sniper Nation
Thank you to Michael Moore for calling out what was never obvious to me-- that snipers are effectively cowards. I confess that that particular thought had never occurred to me, but it's an interesting point to make. Then again, most acts of war are cowardly when they're examined under a certain light.
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Evidently it's not covered in the new film about Chris Kyle, American Sniper, but the former soldier claims to have parked himself on the roof of the Louisiana Superdome during the chaos following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and to have shot dozens of people dead, most if not all of them presumably African-American, and people Kyle certainly believed were, like his Iraqi victims, "savages." Either Kyle really is a personification of evil, or this story that he himself promoted before he died is just more unverifiable nonsense
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An idiot that collects a government paycheck as a supervisor for the Iowa State Patrol joked on Facebook Saturday that he wanted "a sniper at Carver Hawkeye (Arena) to shoot" the ESPN color commentator Dan Dakich in the head during the Iowa/Ohio State men's basketball game. Because, in the cop's words, "he is driving me nuts."
Discipline might follow, and if it does, some would then predictably complain something to the effect that white men-- and/or cops-- have no free speech rights anymore, and/or are "under attack." But I'm wondering what the punishment would be for a television sports commentator that posted a comment saying that a police officer should be shot in the head, and then proceeded to call that particular cop out by name. If anything, the offense this weekend is the worse of the two since this highway patrolman effectively has a public license to shoot and kill.
This is why some people hate the police.
posted by CM @ 7:02 PM
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