This man gets it.

Can't remember where I got this (probably Sipsey St), but we all need to hear:

The first thing that must be understood is that while the murder of any human being is the most serious crime one can commit, it is not necessarily a crime to kill a police officer.

Defensive use of lethal force against criminal aggression is morally legitimate and legally protected, even -- no, make that "especially" -- when the aggressor is clothed in the habiliments of the state's punitive priesthood. This is not the view of some obscure, unsavory self-styled Christian militia group from Michigan. It is the long-established view of the United States Supreme Court as expressed more than a century ago in the ruling John Bad Elk v. The United States.

Is this harsh? Yes, but it's true. John Bad Elk had it particularly rough, and defended himself from a corrupt cop.

Oh, the Hutaree trial will be most interesting.

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