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C4SS  ·  4039 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: LAX Shootings: Propaganda of the Deed?

Understood, but we are not commenting on any individual's motives per se. We are reacting to the knee jerk framing of the shooting, by the mainstream media, that "anti-government = violence," "anti-government = bad," or "TSA = Hero."





AlderaanDuran  ·  4039 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  

    "TSA = Hero."

But going the complete polar opposite and calling them a "terrorist organization" as this article did is a-o-kay?

    He shot terrorists, and ONLY terrorists, with no “collateral damage.”

That makes it easier to pretend this guy is a hero to you? Labeling the people you see as bad "terrorists"? What makes you and the author any better than the government who labels anyone they disagree with a terrorist? Those TSA employees are stills sons, daughters, brother, sisters, fathers and mothers. They are still people working shit jobs they don't enjoy just to get by. Or is this anarchist author so deluded that he thinks everyone who works for the TSA takes some secret vow to be a terrorist and keep American citizens down everyday?

This article was disgusting for me to read. I'm not taking the media's side, or the side of this article. I think both sides are on extreme polar ends and neither are being intellectually honest about what happened. But at least the media isn't pretending some whack job who killed people just doing their jobs is some hero. Those TSA employees are just doing their job, what they have to do is determined by the policy makers.

Pointless death. Now we can just look forward to another security checkpoint even before we get to the TSA screening area!