Sadistic LA thugs tased Keenan Anderson repeatedly for 42 seconds while he was already helplessly on the ground. It is not unusual for such treatment to kill someone, and it killed him.

After killing him, the thug department claimed his death was his fault.

The author of the first article appears to make a foolish scientific error. It is irrelevant to understanding the issue politically or morally, but it is important to learn to avoid. It seems that the author misunderstood the difference between power and energy, and assumed that the wattage of successive taser shots should be added to get a "combined wattage". That is a mistake; adding them is appropriate only if they happen simultaneously.

If I could find out the wattage that a taser delivers while operating, I could tell for certain whether this mistake was made.

Local pirates in Nigeria kidnap people from boats and steal their engines, cargo and fish.

A general discussion of the moral issues of which kinds of protest are legitimate, then applied to the case of protesting by blocking highways.

This discussion makes sense, in its narrow framework. However, treating the Just Stop Oil protests in isolation, ignoring the deadly threat they confront, leads to wrong conclusions.

Global heating and the resulting climate breakdown are already causing millions of deaths. This year, 200 million deaths are predicted. The UK government has pledged to help stop global heating but is not taking much action. Can you seriously argue that blocking highways in desperation to pressure the state to carry out its mission is morally wrong?

Blocking highways seems to be a self-defeating method, but that is a different kind of issue.

US citizens: call on the EPA to stop dragging its feet on rules to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by power plants.

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Israel subsidizes making movies. The goverment dislikes two documentaries about Israel's occupation policies, so now the government demands that money back, explicitly adopting a policy of ideological bias.

The US government carries censorship of movies about war through a policy whereby the US military cooperates with making films, but only when it approves of the message of the film.