NYPD are the people

Dave Winer via Gruber:

The lives of the people of the foreign countries are worth exactly as much as ours. We overlooked the behavior of American soldiers in these countries. Now the cops want to know why we treat them differently.

And they’re right to ask. Why? If the army can arbitrarily kill thousands in Iraq, why can’t they kill a few people in Staten Island, Missouri, or Ohio? You “support the troops” why don’t you support us, they ask.

Please read this. It’s honestly time we started realizing people are people… white, black, brown, American, Iraqi, Afghani, gay, straight, etc… Us vs them is so Middle Ages. It’s almost 2015 - we gotta move past these ridiculous divisions if we’re to make real progress as a global society.