Joe Cornell, 52, was working in the lot of a Salvation Army location as part of a substance abuse rehabilitation program when he saw a bag of cash fall out of the back of a Brinks armored cash transport car as it drove over railroad tracks in downtown Fresno. He sent it back – because he was afraid of the police state.
Morality by Terrorism
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Meanwhile the banksters commit their crimes openly in public and dare anyone to charge them with a crime. And if you try to stir up some activity toward prosecutions, the state enforcement agencies will, and have, come down on the protesters like a ton of bricks.
All in the name of order, of course.
I can’t blame the man – I would have done the same thing.
Yeah.
*snicker*
I can’t see drones for jaywalkers … but for BICYCLISTS oh hell, yeah. Gimme the remote!
Long time ago, I read some science fiction where they had Big Brother cameras everywhere. But the ‘film’ went into a sealed vault which needed a warrant to open. The idea was that nobody could spy on you, but if there was a crime committed, THEN they could open up just the relevant ones.
You’d be happy with that, right? If someone whacked you in the back of the head & stole your wallet, you wouldn’t mind if THAT was on tape.
All it would take would be honest judges, honest politicians, honest cops…
*HONESTLY?*
This is pointless, even for you.
The guy did the right thing. Does it matter why?
Don’t know if Mr Cornell did the «right» thing, but given the level of surveillance with which we are surrounded today, he certainly did the prudent thing. The Greek philosophers would have applauded his act as an example of «σωφροσύνη» (which hardly characterised their society, or for that matter, ours)….
Henri