The Brooklyn Police 2

The Prince of Verona:

"All are punishèd"

(and All are to blame!)

I have been reading detailed accounts of the killing incident and the killer. I have also been reading some analyses of violent incidents in general.

It is so very obvious that there is an incredible amount of detail in every act of violence. These actions are not necessarily random, and they are not reducible to the singular events that those who wish to place blame try to reduce them to.

In short, to blame any one person's acts or words for an act of violence now in this country - the most violent country in the world with the most privately held weapons of violence - is idiocy.

All are to blame, and all are punished.

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The Brooklyn Police

The Blame Train Arriving On Track #2

What a horrible event it is that 2 police officers were shot while sitting in their police car.

As appalling as that killing is, it does not stop the politically minded from their agendas of assigning blame. Whatever problems we face will not be ameliorated by finger pointing.

The chain of causality goes on a very long way.

The chain of causality goes back beyond the killing, beyond the most recent statements; it goes back to earlier killings and statements at that time. It goes back even further to historical killings and historical statements of justice and injustice.

Once you climb aboard the Blame Train, it will go on as far as it can. It will not merely go as far as your idea of justice wants it to.

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