Lindy wrote:

"Moron" you say?

Since when does it become legal for a policeman (in this case a "paramilitary" Rambo cop) to blatantly shoot to kill in anything less than self defense?
The kid should have been arrested for damaging public property or perhaps even inciting violence, but I'd like to know where you get off saying this young dissenter deserved to die for his political objections.
Shot in the head twice?

Hmmm......I guess you don't mind we go the way of fascist Germany or even China??

I respond:

Lindy, with all due respect, you’re not being very logical in this matter.

My description of a hooded young man clearly attempting to hurl a heavy and dangerous metal object at armed police officers as a ‘moron’ is, if anything, an understatement! I’d think it’s obvious that this is an extremely unwise course of action.

From this you make the amazing, illogical leap to the conclusion that 1) I believe the young man deserved to die, 2) the young man died for political reasons and 3) I wouldn’t mind a switch to a fascist and genocidal state. Further, in your next post, you attribute this presumed attitude to ‘right-wing males’.

I don’t think anyone short of a murderer or an otherwise heinous criminal really deserves to die, but so many bring this unfortunate mortal end result upon themselves through their own foolish actions. Don’t blame me for merely pointing this out.

This young man had no rational political beliefs, unless there’s a defined ideology out there somewhere preaching blind, mindless violence for its own sake. Please keep in mind that the police, not the demonstrators, are protecting and serving the democratically elected government officials, and their democratic societies. It’s the violent protesters, not the police, who give the best example of the brutal practices of a fascist or communist dictatorship.

Finally, don’t you realize that a majority of the European democracies (against whom these violent thugs are constantly protesting, not just at this summit) are in the hands of center-left governments? Please explain to Labor or Social Democrat leaders like Tony Blair or Gerhard Schroeder that it’s ‘right-wing’ of them to send police to the streets to control, subdue, arrest (and yes, occasionally shoot) violent protestors! I see nothing ‘right-wing’ at all in a desire to maintain peace and security in the streets, nor do I buy the argument that forgiving, or overlooking, the excesses of the police in their actions is a ‘right-wing’ trait.