I do not condone violence and I am a peaceful person, but I do rejoice when a pig dies.
I don't particularly celebrate it when anyone dies. That said, I find it utterly revolting how society reacts when a police officer dies.
There was a case just recently, where a cop was engaged in some type of pursuit, crashed his cruiser, killing himself. So, the cops put on a public spectacle -- full-dress funeral, with flag on coffin, brother offers arriving from all over marching along with the casket, the whole 9 yards. The man left a wife and a small child, and his child is going to have to grow up without him.
Yet, by the same token, a few years back, on a construction site, a few days before Christmas, there was an accident. Some scaffolding gave way, and four men plunged to their deaths. They also left wives, children and families. Yet there were no elaborate funerals for these men -- there were no speeches about them -- no one to honor them, except for their families.
Construction workers have a ten-fold higher chance of dying on the job than police officers, yet no one gives a rat's ass when they die, frequently due to employer negligence.
Nightcrawler
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Security is a bit like religion... some things have to be taken on faith.
Where security differs from religion is that security is NOT retroactive.
Unlike Christianity, where you can come to Jesus, be 'saved' and have all
your sins washed away, with security you can adopt Tails or PGP, and be
secure from that point forward, but rest assured that your previous sins
(security failings) WILL come back to haunt you and bite you in the ass.
The original DPR is the poster child for that, right now.
Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield!
Against stupidity the very gods Themselves
contend in vain. --Friedrich Schiller