Seen the pictures of Jean, the Brazilian guy the cops killed, on the front of the Guardian or the Independent or on the BBC site? Standing with his mom and dad, laughing at a barbecue, smiling into the camera?
Y'know what? My picture could be there. Your picture could be there. Your mom or dad or son or daughter or wife or husband - any of 'em could occupy that space right now.
When the London pigs shot this man, they didn't attack just one unarmed, innocent Brazilian. They attacked all of us. Oh: In the name of "protecting" us, of course. The same way Bush and Blair "protected" us from Iraq and Afghanistan by dropping bombs on wedding parties, torturing innocent detainees, and wiping out 100,000 or so innocent people whose pictures also could occupy this spot.
When you make apologies for this kind of human garbage, you show the world whose side you're on.
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