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RE: Honor the Troops? Maybe We Should Hold Them Accountable Instead.

in #peace8 years ago

I agree with you about most of what you say, I would also like to add something about police repression, for example right now the press has it's all critical eye on police repression in Venezuela as well it should, but police repression is happening all over the world, Philippines, France, USA, South Korea, Bahrain, Brazil, in fact in every country in the the world, in some parts like North Korea they don't even need this repression because people there are already cowed, they don't even have the attitude to protest, so we see repression exists in all countries regardless of political ideology and what I see that saddens me, is that at least in a war you are fighting against someone who you can perceive as an enemy, someone from a foreign country even if to get to that point, to perceive them as enemies they lie to you, but with police repression these police are part of the people they might even be your family or good friends, and yet they will beat you up and in extreme cases kill you because it is their duty to the government, while in fact they should only answer to the people, I really hate this.

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Don't even get my started on the police, but yes, I completely agree with you. It's really frustrating. The link in my article about non-government solutions for defensive force goes to Detroit Threat Management. If you haven't looked into them yet, check it out. Pretty encouraging stuff.