This is a blog where I hope to catalog abuses of those in uniform, or those connected to those in uniform. This will mean a majority of the posts will be links to stories of police misconduct and abuses by soldiers, but I hope to also touch on our criminal justice system and military spending.
This blog was inspired in part by an extremely depressing OpenLeft post called This Is Why We Torture, which I highly recommend reading in its entirety. In it, the author argues that torture is normalized in our society not only against the nondescript evildoer in Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, but against in our own country against protesters, the poor, the mentally ill, and numerous others. We as a society place a great deal of trust on those who wear uniforms, and not all of those that put on the uniform deserve it. I do not believe this to be a case of "a few bad apples," but a systemic problem.
However, anecdotes speak louder than statistics, so anecdotes you will get.
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