Orwellian

[poliphilo]

Some politician was saying we've got the terminology wrong.

We shouldn't say "shoot to kill"; we should say "shoot to protect".

Of course, that makes all the difference.

Now lets think of a nice way of saying "innocent man with five bullets in his head."

Comments

[mummm.livejournal.com]

I guess we have to think of it as 60+ innocents dead and 200+ injured and a guy who would not stop when told to do so?

Seriously... it's AWFUL but your police (Bobbies? They no longer just carry nightsticks huh?) have my sympathy! Five shots were a bit much though... and maybe they could have aimed to injure?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I don't know the rights and wrongs of it. Maybe the police did what they had to do. It's the massaging of language that gets me.

[mummm.livejournal.com]

Ah... true!