Lethal Injection Under Fire Again

[Occhidiangela]

Occhi, at this point I don't even know what you're talking about. 
I'm talking about welfare abusers (stories about women having children for extra welfare benefits, using the money for booze, etc), and you're talking about abusive police practices...

Besides the King case being a bit more complex than the general public ever bothered to look into, beyond the inflammatory symbols and images . . .

I am referring to anecdotal episodes, a la Rodney King, or other anecdotal cases used as an image or a symbol. See Willie Horton and his role in the Bush-Dukakis race of 1988. Horton was a convict on a weekend parole who subsequently committed a rape. The matter is the political rhetoric and pursuit of various agenda by using anecdotes as symbols. Elian Gonzalez as well.

As for this:
I still don't see how I helped you to make a point.  1.) The purpose of the residential schools was not to "help" natives through the stabilizing influence of voluntary social welfare provision.  The purpose was to forcibly "cure" them of their heritage.  Those are two very different things.

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The point I was on about is the State interfering with parents and the raising of their kids. The do gooders and progressives determined that their "better idea" was superior to how the Indians raised their own children, and that it was better for the country, and for the Indians, so they forcibly infringe on the parents' raising of their children. More flies with honey if you ask me, like put the schools on or near the reservation and slowly work on "meeting them halfway." That takes patnience, which Progressives rarely seem to have.

Occhi

Edit to add Horton link