2013-10-04, 09:09 AM
MasPan Wrote:[COLOR="#cc8899"]You have a point, although in my opinion, the fact you had to compare US with North Korea and China already speaks a lot about the state of things.
I don't know where you're getting "ruled by fear" from. If anything we're ruled by arrogance lol. I live in Seoul and work both in Seoul and at the Korean DMZ. I stare in the face of what an oppressive, fear-based government looks like in North Korea every. Single. Day. America's petty political squabbles don't even rate on that scale. Then there's countries like China with extreme censorship, disappearances/imprisonments of political dissidents. Syria and the like where there's an ongoing war between oppressive, heavy-handed governments and oppressive, heavy-handed rebel groups. [/COLOR]
At least from European perspective, the whole NSA surveillance program, torture, government corruption, hidden war crimes, imprisonment of people in different facilities for questionable or no reasons, questionable death sentences and last but not least the dictatorship of 2 political parties are nothing to be very proud of. The difference between North Korea and USA is that North Korea is a tiny troll-dictatorship, while USA is a superpower with huge responsabilities. More and less recent events have clearly shown that USA is not the free and democratic country they so proudly promote across the globe. US also has a history of disrespecting/not living by the rules of United Nations.
Back to topic: Not knowing much about this particular case but in general I've noticed it seems to be the common practice in the States to shoot a gunman/criminal dead instead of having them on trial and investigating what happened afterwards. In many other developed countries, police will always only shoot to wound and if the target is killed, there's usually (if not anything else) at least a debate over what happened.