It’s About Time

Tuesday 6 December 2011 - Filed under Uncategorized

The Truth About Guns on The New York Times article on the militarization of the police:

But the news here isn’t the militarization, it’s the Times itself. As soon as a decades-old trend starts to affect those with whom the Times’ editors are simpatico, it’s time to shine a light on the issue. It wasn’t a big problem when the cops were knocking down doors and shooting pets in front of children. Never mind that a wacko libertarian think tank had documented all of this years ago.

When the coppers roll out their armored personnel carriers to clear out the kids demonstrating against Wall Street, capitalism and student loans, that’s a whole ‘nother kettle o’ fish. These are the good people. The ones we agree with. This kind of police brutality has to be exposed, discussed, dealt with. Therefore, now it’s time the NYT’s dwindling readership is made aware of the situation.

It’s about fucking time that the Gray lady has finally caught on to what is perhaps the biggest threat to our liberty in modern America. I mean, it isn’t as if Radley Balko, then of Reason magazine and The Cato Institute has painstakingly documented this kind of shit for years or anything.

Way to be cutting edge.

2011-12-06  »  madlibertarianguy