[lbo-talk] Re: Yobs in uniform

[Carl Remick]

>From: Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu>
>
>Doug:
> > Can you acknowledge that the TBL sometimes acts as a violent mob itself?
>
>Of course.  Any organization has a potential for corruption and abuse - 
>even
>the Communist Party.
>
>The point I was arguing was directed at a silly anti-institutionalism and
>populism manifested, inter alia, by knee-jerk hatred of government and its
>agencies, especially law enforcement.

Hear, hear.  Let's keep a sense of proportion about this.  Sir Ian Blair and 
the Metropolitan Police can take legitimate pride that there are many 
Brazilians whom they have not murdered.

Carl