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

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

They're saying he was here on a student visa and it had run out and that was why he ran from the police.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Yes. I bbc'd the issue right after commenting and saw that. The family is denying it.

It's a scary place for the police to be. "You have a nanosecond. Is this a terrified illegal alien or a suicide bomber? Guess wrong and you're screwed."

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We're learning, I think, to mistrust the media.

It's one of the drawbacks of the kind of rolling news coverage we now enjoy. Facts get reported without being checked and much of what we're told
turns out to be untrue.