20-09-2009, 12:16 PM
Magda Hassan Wrote:In any case they got their immunity.
Yes, all members of the Police armed response squads were already immune from prosecution at the time of De Menezes. This followed the Bony & Clyde case where an innocent man caught wielding a deadly replacement table leg bought from his local table leg shop was "confused" with a shotgun and armed police immediately shot him dead.
The police rebelled at the subsequent attempt to prosecute the officers responsible and all of them were ready to refuse to carry weapons henceforward. Bliar backed down and gave them blanket immunity in the future.
Interestingly, one of the policeman responsible for the table leg incident was also responsible for De Menezes.
Whoops.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14