Not enough to qualify as justice for the officially sanctioned cold-blooded murder of an innocent & terrified civilian. No malice aforethought... just cold... calculated...
The Nazis would have done exactly the same thing to protect THEIR social system if *they* thought someone *might* be a threat.
There, I didn't use the word 'fascist'.
I can feel the flames already: 'Hey! At least the situation is being heard... acted upon officially! I say, due to the pervasive influences of modern media *specifically*, what will happen is... nothing... and few will care. (As long as they aren't the victim, it's just some 'loser')
I'd speculate that at some point in the Nazi's rise to power, they would have done exactly the same thing... for exactly the same reasons. Hearings... scapegoats... exactly the same. Until the populace no longer required the crutch of rationalization.
I say the western world is almost there, the crutch will be taken away and no one will care... as long as they 'feel' safer. (You'll be informed when that might be by television as you watch from the safety of your own fortress ['Panic room'])
How little human attitudes about the 'others' has changed in the last 60 years... and the new fascism is so much less expensive than the version it obsoletes, what with all that ugly non-durable apparatus of despotism.
Troops in the streets, razor wire, surveillance cameras pointed at public gathering places... an old man killed on the tarmac of a Florida airport while his wife watched in horror, because he was behind on his meds and got just a little too... ...agitated.
Excuse me... I've digressed... Not!
Jurist: Monday, February 20, 2006 London police face charges in Brazilian subway shooting case Tom Henry at 12:16 PM ET
[JURIST] British officials from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) [official website] who are investigating the killing of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, who was mistakenly shot by London police last year after the London bombings [JURIST news archive], plan to charge the officers who oversaw the operation with tampering with evidence and obstructing public justice.
De Menezes was killed by police [JURIST report] on the London subway on July 22, 2005 after being mistaken for a suicide bomber. Police surveillance officers are accused of trying to hide the fact that they had mistaken de Menezes for alleged terrorist Hussain Osman [BBC summary of charges] by changing a police log to read "And it was not Osman" instead of "it was Osman."
The change was allegedly made so that surveillance officers could claim the officers involved in the shooting had fired on the wrong man despite having been warned that he was not Osman. De Menezes' family has pushed for a public inquiry into the shooting and have brought a separate case against Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair [profile], claiming he misled the public in statements following the tragedy [JURIST report]. Sophie Goodchild of the Independent has more.
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