Overall, the video just had an awkwardness about it. This totally did remind me of the old Cold War videos…lol. It was ridiculously unhelpful and only served to freak people out and create a system of fear and finger-pointing that furthers stereotyping. It kind of had a “They’re after us” quality to it that made it especially disturbing.

This video [ http://youtu.be/_kKkY5EpVpY ] seriously shocked me! Absolute HATE SPEECH and yet, it was sent to me by a fellow Christian who questioned my “allegiance” to my faith when I commented that it was hate speech. While it’s more underground in the video shown on Sociological Images, they’re still demonstrating that “us vs. them” mentality that furthers hate. They may not point out who “they” are in the video from Houston officials, but I think we can all be pretty sure who the American public believes “they” are.

Sneaking into buildings is a (poor) indicator of the intent of the person sneaking in. I can’t count the number of times I’ve entered a gated community or apartment by piggybacking with the intent of visiting a resident; most of the time, I was driving a vehicle that doesn’t match the demographics of the residents in that area.

Oddly enough, the criminals experienced less trouble getting in and out of those areas than the police did. Granted, the criminals were either residents or had residents willing to cut the fence repeatedly.

Objectivism has never been taken seriously in academia.  Is Rand even considered a philosopher?   Still, I do get annoyed when people brush off every single thing Rand (or other controversial figures) says because a large portion of her work is flawed.  That’s a real fallacy of its own, no? 

IIRC it’s because of EU laws and the EU Constitution, which prohibits straight life sentences. Here in Spain they’ve tried to keep ETA terrorists in jail for longer than 20 years (= maximum jail time, even if they’ve been given a sentence of 400 years or so) with the so-called “Doctrina Parot”, but it’s been taken to the Human Rights court at Strasbourg to see if it breaks EU laws.

If I’m not mistaken, France, for example, has pseudo-life sentences that have to be revised every 20 years or so.

There’s being alert… and then there’s that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faFuaYA-daw

“Would you like to know more?”

And the closed buildings is so much bullshit. It’s mostly to prevent homeless and other “undesirables” from accessing.

Oh, and I also live in a country where at least one unwanted group is sterilized, because you know, mental illness. So you know, I obviously know nothing about anything, but I think that forced sterilization is something bad.

You think I want you murdered, so there’s no point in discussing any further. Just do me a favor and count yourself lucky that you can still think of yourself as immune from faschists.

Here’s something I’d want to see numbers on, because I really don’t believe that people are as analytical as you seem to think. There is no arguing that you and your cousin went through something awful and it was lucky that his behaviour did correspond to his intentions. I do wonder how often that is the case though.

Also, I’m starting to get pissed with you for being so dismissive. You’ll notice that I haven’t used a single personal acnedotes on acting like a terrorist, in fact I’ve been consistently pointing to groups that are still very vulnerable, and you keep talking like we’re idiots for asking questions anyway. You don’t have to switch sides, but for god’s sake, do pretend like you sense of personal safety isn’t worth more than theirs.