Evil Seeds, Evil Crop
Sam Aurelius Milam III
On
Wednesday January 3, 2001, two cops were killed in Eden, Idaho, while trying
to serve a search warrant for suspicion of marijuana.1
The same report that announced the deaths of the cops also mentioned in
passing (journalistic fairness, I suppose) the death of the man who allegedly
killed the cops, and who was himself killed in the same confrontation.
A
subsequent report (I don't remember which station) briefly covering the
funeral of the victim, alleged that he had been shot 22 times. Since
the first shot or two probably dropped him, the remaining 20 or so shots
were a typical shooting spree at a dead man, by the cops. When I
later accessed the websites of the local TV stations to confirm what I
had heard, the report wasn't there. The other stories presented that
day were archived, but not that one. Anyway, scant concern was expressed
regarding this man's death during any report that I saw. As I said,
it was mentioned in passing. The deaths of the cops were reported,
repeatedly, as a tragedy. According to the coverage, you'd think
that it was the worst thing to happen in the history of the state.
Hundreds of cops showed up at the funeral, which became almost a royal
pageant of despair, complete with a parade of mourning cops. Meanwhile,
the victim of the police shooting, the one presumably shot 20 or so times
after he was already down, was buried quietly, with little fanfare, and
almost no notice by the news media. As I said, they didn't even archive
the report.
Such
disparity in reporting is typical. The establishment media doesn't
report the deaths of people as tragedies, when those people are murdered
by cops. Such an event is reported as a shootout with a cultist,
as a standoff with a survivalist, as an attempted apprehension of a suspected
terrorist, or as some other such event. Without exception, each such
victim is characterized in some way that demonizes him sufficiently so
that it's OK that the cops killed him. Such events are not reported
as a human being murdered by a cop, in other words, as a tragedy.
Such media bias is blatant pro-government propaganda. It glorifies
cops and glamorizes tyranny in the name of law enforcement. It is
outright pro-cop brainwashing and it is an insult to Americans.
The
brainwashing might have worked on some Americans, but in my case it backfired.
Cops could have been good. They could have been useful. They
have chosen to be otherwise. So, when cops are arrogant, when they
strut around like thugs, when they use no-knock search warrants and kick
in the doors of people's homes, when they harass people, beating or killing
those who dare to resist, when they arrest and imprison people who haven't
harmed anyone, when they seize other people's property (civil asset forfeiture),
when they murder people who are minding their own business or trying to
defend themselves, when they attempt to disarm everyone, then they don't
deserve any sympathy. Today, they do all of those things and more,
routinely and without a qualm. Today, they don't deserve any sympathy,
so I won't give them any. Today, when I hear of a cop killed "in
the line of duty", I'm satisfied. He probably shouldn't have been
doing whatever he was doing. He probably shouldn't have been were
he was. He was probably being arrogant, belligerent, brutal, intrusive,
and he was probably wrong. He and his kind have been that way for
a long, long time. For years, they have been sowing the evil seeds
of an evil crop. They shall reap what they sow. Today, when
a cop is killed "in the line of duty", I lay the blame squarely at their
feet. He probably got exactly what he deserved.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
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Idaho, 83204, 5:30 report, January 4, 2001, news@localnews8.com, http://www.idaho8.com |
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