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 Two Killed in Las Vegas ShootoutPosted on Jan 4, 2010
Early Monday morning, an as-yet-unidentified gunman was killed in a shootout after he opened fire in a Las Vegas federal building, killing a security guard and wounding a U.S. marshal. The Associated Press posted this report about the incident. AP via YouTube: Advertisement New and Improved CommentsWe are launching a major overhaul of our comments section. In addition to more robust spam filtering and moderation, new features include the ability to rate other comments, sort how they are displayed and respond directly via e-mail or in a thread. Unfortunately, commenters will lose their existing Truthdig identities. It's a pain, we know, but on the plus side you will now be able to log in with a plethora of options, including Google, Twitter, Facebook and Disqus accounts. Before launching this system we spent months in discussion with our top commenters. We listened to the feedback and we hope you like what we've come up with. Please direct any problems or concerns to us via our contact page. |
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By DBM, January 6, 2010 at 11:40 pm Link to this comment
“write” those words ... of course!
Report thisBy DBM, January 6, 2010 at 11:27 pm Link to this comment
Not to get into a religious argument but ...
“if every citizen was packing”
I’ve lived in the U.S. where lots of people are “packing” and I’ve lived in a number of other places where tools of violence are not considered an inalienable right. Trust me, the restriction on personal freedom is a small price to pay. It galls to right those words but it’s true.
Report thisBy DieDaily, January 6, 2010 at 8:39 pm Link to this comment
You got it. We’ll all be through a scanner darkly so on enough. Never mind the state ceasing it’s practices of being total Nazis and forcing injustice after injustice down the throats of a desperate American populace that is close to the edge of snapping.
As usual if every citizen was packing, this kind of thing couldn’t ever happen. I don’t condone violence against the state. Even if I were tempted to, which I am not, I would reject it because it just builds the reactionary security apparatus up. I must say though, that at least the shooter avoided hurting civilians. At least it was purely militant-on-militant, so it could have been much worse.
Report thisBy DBM, January 6, 2010 at 6:54 pm Link to this comment
Probably ... I believe Chertoff is well-invested in the body-scanning equipment.
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/workplace/144906/michael_chertoff’s_pushing_"full-body_scanners"_for_airports_but_he_has_a_conflict_of_interest_/?comments=view&cID=1403098&pID=1403007
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/01/02/group_slams_chertoff_on_scanner_promotion/
http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/pr_1227637223871.shtm
Report thisBy doublestandards/glasshouses, January 4, 2010 at 4:50 pm Link to this comment
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So now we will have to submit to a full body scan to
Report thisenter the post office to mail a letter no doubt.