Vendetta society

luckat

As we gravitate towards a vendetta society, with one young man after another shot dead, and the Gardai, who have always honoured their motto of keeping peace through moral force rather than by the gun, now weakening and wanting to brandish guns too, an interesting piece from Chicago:

http://tinyurl.com/67g9vb

Sherifu

Governments should be afraid of their people.

luckat

An extract from the piece I've linked, by the way:

CeaseFire’s founder, Gary Slutkin, is an epidemiologist and a physician who for 10 years battled infectious diseases in Africa. He says that violence directly mimics infections like tuberculosis and AIDS, and so, he suggests, the treatment ought to mimic the regimen applied to these diseases: go after the most infected, and stop the infection at its source. “For violence, we’re trying to interrupt the next event, the next transmission, the next violent activity,” Slutkin told me recently. “And the violent activity predicts the next violent activity like H.I.V. predicts the next H.I.V. and TB predicts the next TB.” Slutkin wants to shift how we think about violence from a moral issue (good and bad people) to a public health one (healthful and unhealthful behavior).