Or fire a shotgun at his head.
Dumbass hillbilly cops first wrongly detain a family, suspecting them of a carjacking. They refuse to close the door of the car (after they were informed that dogs were back there) and the dogs got out of the car. They ran away from the car, then circled back towards the family. The Officer saw this, and unloaded his shotgun into the dog's head.
There is a video, but I can't watch it.
Now, if Zoli (pictured below) were to get out of the car, he would have done EXACTLY the same thing. Run away a few meters, then come back to me. This is the dog that lets small children ride him like a horse. The one who all but indifferent to strangers we meet on our infrequent walks. But he would be dead, because they let some fuckhead in Tennessee have a badge and a shotgun.
Posted by danisaacs at January 09, 2003 08:27 AMYes, I know. But I am still entitled to think a family dog is far more than property, and that ruthlessly murdering one constitutes a crime far more serious than destruction of property.
Now that i think about it, these people were deprived of their property by the state without recourse. Sounds like a Civil Rights case to me.
Posted by: Dan de Isaacs on January 9, 2003 07:07 PMWhat the cop did was wrong. Period, full stop. However, I can't believe, even for a second, that you honestly think his crime merits the death penalty.
Posted by: paul on January 11, 2003 06:10 AMNo. No crimes merit the death penalty, as that is something the State does, and something the State has no right to do, IMO.
But if he dies a painful death soon, I'll feel a little safer the next time I drive through Tenn.
Posted by: Dan de Isaacs on January 11, 2003 11:27 PMI'm not sure that makes me feel any better: apparently it's not OK for the state to impose the death penalty, but if an individual citizen-unit chooses to impose it-- say, if the Nashville PETA chapter put out a hit on the cop-- would that be OK? (Leaving aside the whole concept of karmic retribution, of course).
Posted by: paul on January 14, 2003 05:27 AMHow did you come up with that analogy? Delighting in someones suffering is quite different from actively making that person suffer. Granted, both are not what a Good Person should aspire to. But they are not the same. Maybe if you were Catholic you'd think they were. :)
Of course murder is wrong. Period. But on the whole, there are just some people whom you'd rather did not exist.
Posted by: Not Dan on January 14, 2003 08:01 AM