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Abundant tweets about civil liberties & national security. "Has a longer memory than an elephant & keeps more records than Jim Comey.” Legendary potty mouth.

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    1. GhostTrace‏ @owenrumney 29 Aug 2017
      Replying to @TheOtherSimo @emptywheel

      Yes, emergency self defense and castle doctrine are the exceptions. But state has monopoly on all else.

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    2. GhostTrace‏ @owenrumney 29 Aug 2017
      Replying to @owenrumney @TheOtherSimo @emptywheel

      It's an old concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence …

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    3. Arceuthobium‏ @TheOtherSimo 29 Aug 2017
      Replying to @owenrumney @emptywheel

      Foundations of our legal system are English common law (much older than 1576) and Constitution (which is not based on Hobbesian thinking)

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    4. GhostTrace‏ @owenrumney 29 Aug 2017
      Replying to @TheOtherSimo @emptywheel

      ok maybe it's not explicitly "foundational", but do you disagree that it is a core tenet? 1/

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    5. Arceuthobium‏ @TheOtherSimo 29 Aug 2017
      Replying to @owenrumney @emptywheel

      I reject utterly the assertion that state violence is morally different from interpersonal violence.

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    6. GhostTrace‏ @owenrumney 29 Aug 2017
      Replying to @TheOtherSimo @emptywheel

      State violence is generally more predictable, and democratically legitimized.

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    7. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 30 Aug 2017
      Replying to @owenrumney @TheOtherSimo

      Maybe if you're a privileged white person. Not if you're an unarmed black person.

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    8. GhostTrace‏ @owenrumney 30 Aug 2017
      Replying to @emptywheel @TheOtherSimo

      How many police shootings in Chicago vs gang shootings last year?

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    9. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 30 Aug 2017
      Replying to @owenrumney @TheOtherSimo

      You HONESTLY are measuring the CPD mob against the Mexican cartel mobs?

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    10. GhostTrace‏ @owenrumney 30 Aug 2017
      Replying to @emptywheel @TheOtherSimo

      which is worse?

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      emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 30 Aug 2017
      Replying to @owenrumney @TheOtherSimo

      I'm not sure. Perhaps you should interview an innocent black male shot dead in the crossfire, find which he prefers?

      9:48 AM - 30 Aug 2017
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        2. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 30 Aug 2017
          Replying to @emptywheel @owenrumney @TheOtherSimo

          One of the underlying conclusions by this comparison is that the police are not serving as a protective force in parts of Chicago. Why not?

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        3. GhostTrace‏ @owenrumney 30 Aug 2017
          Replying to @emptywheel @TheOtherSimo

          Many reasons. Do you have one in mind?

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