The Cold War of Guns

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As the mainstream political debate over gun ownership continues in the United States, so does the tendency for the two major political parties to sound like echo chambers. Where Democrats in Oregon and California envision an idealistic future without the need for guns through regulation and taxation, Republicans in Texas hold strong to a fatalistic dogma where guns are not only a necessary tool in preserving the oneself and the country, but as an intrinsic part of the American life.

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Against Torture

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The US has an undeniable and extensive history in training and administrating torture. from waterboarding the Philippine Insurrection to supervising the South Vietnamese Army in torturing over 60,000 captured VietCong (many of which were merely civilians)

On December 9th, 2014, the Senate Intelligence committee released the Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program. The report is harrowing. The details help make what was once just rumored to to now be brought into the light of actual fact: that the technique of torture is ineffective in procuring accurate and useful intelligence to protect and save lives.

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Mike Brown

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If we put aside the unanswered questions, we can clearly see why the ruling was a non-indictment.

It makes sense.

But if you refuse to put aside the glaring inconsistencies, oddities, and outright inequalities and injustices, it becomes plain to see that the ruling was true about: whether or not the death of another Black man was worth further discussion in America. 

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