@GeneralDilley I'm not a fan of Trump, personally, & didn't vote for him. That said, I told my (Trump-hating) father I thought Trump would be an effective cathartic, in the medical sense of a purgative/laxative drug, causing the #DeepState & general corruption to expose itself & be removed.
@GeneralDilley In the willingness of our intelligence agencies to abuse power to spy on Trump and his campaign, to their subsequent attempts to cover up such corruption, we have borne witness to the Deep State and its inherent corruption.
@GeneralDilley Even now, & despite the fact #blacklivesmatter donations are passed directly to the Democratic political group #ActBlue , as a libertarian, I would be remiss if I did not thank #BLM for drawing attention to the very real problem of the militarization of policing in this country.
@GeneralDilley The data don't appear to support the hypothesis any racial group is killed by police disproportionately, when normalizing data to account for the prevalence of violent crime in the jurisdictions in which such killings occur. That said, US police do, in fact...
@GeneralDilley kill unarmed people at rates higher than would be predicted by the same statistical parameters that best predict such rates in the US. As such, we CAN state, with factual objective predicate, that we could likely save innocent lives KILLED BY OUR REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT.
@GeneralDilley I know the number of people killed by police is small relative to the number killed by other people, but we should respect the attention drawn by BLM to the fact that it really IS different when an innocent man is killed by police than when he's killed by a common criminal.
@GeneralDilley We expect criminals to commit crime. We have EVERY right to expect our police to hold themselves to an extraordinarily high standard when it comes to murdering innocent people, whether by gunshot, chokehold, or a knee on a man's neck. I respect our police, but they represent us.
