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<p>Original:<br><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/hong-kong-police-shoot-protester-violent-clashes-escalate-191001154547441.html">Hong Kong police shoot protester as violent clashes escalate</a></p>
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<p>What is murder?</p>
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<p>"the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another"<br>Oxford</p>
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<p>Self-defense is a valid defense to murder.</p>
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<p>If <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oITJm8SJJsY">you watch the video</a> we see the same kind of to and fro that we've been watching for months now. Except for an important new twist. The Statist enforcer pulls out his gun and shoots a protester in the chest.<br>Depending on the protester's survival there will be a prima facie case for (attempted) murder against the enforcer (people aren't yet indoctrinated enough to believe this is part of a 'War on Terror' in which case no PR ritual trials would be required).<br>His defense will lie, in part, on self-defense, mainly because of the stick and perhaps partly on other factors like the other protesters and the general atmosphere of conflict.</p>
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<p>So what evidence is there of 'premeditated'? This is not difficult. He had a gun loaded with live ammunition! We only need to switch costumes to see the dynamics. The protester has the gun, the enforcer has a stick (which he was using in a desperate attempt to save his life[?]). Is the protester guilty of murder? What was he doing turning up to a peaceful rally fully armed with a lethal weapon? Surely that would make him a terrorist!? A good moment to pause and consider why the US Second Amendment exists ... (it's not because people have an irrational love of guns and/or violence, in fact, the exact, as this moment shows, opposite). The imbalance of power has fed the impunity of this enforcer, which has led to his tragically violent behavior.</p>
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<p>Until the DARPA scientists have <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/military-technology-pentagon-robots/406786/">fully implemented their genetically engineered Statist enforcer programme</a> let's assume they are both human beings as the term is currently understood.</p>
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<p>So everything turns on 'unlawful'. This is where the defense will really lie, because all other factors being equal, this was clearly a disproportionate use of violence in the application of 'self-defense'.</p>
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<p>"Unlawful"<br>'not conforming to, permitted by, or recognized by law or rules'<br>Oxford</p>
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<p>Does the law permit and recognize rioting? Only in the sense that it will cage, for years, anyone it convicts of doing it. Who made up the 'law or rules'? The State. This is a State enforcer. His acts are transformed from unlawful to lawful by the receipt of plunder, a costume, a badge and a lot of people who think he's a 'jolly good fellow'</p>
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<p>There may well be <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/07/hong-kong-police-officers-cleared-2014-protester-beating-190726053552384.html">a PR exercise referred to as a 'trial', but everyone knows which side the bread is buttered</a>:</p>
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<p>This is the context in which this enforcer will be judged in his actions towards someone who otherwise would not have been shot had it not been for their desire to protest the imbalance of power and their inability to 'protest' effectively via a lawfully recognized mechanism which is the one set up by ... the State! <a href="https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/73/Appeal-to-the-Law">This is why appeal to the law is a logical fallacy</a></p>
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<p>This doesn't resolve until it is understood and recognized that the State is premised upon violent aggression in the first instance. How 'necessary' you believe that is will inform how you view this moment captured on video.</p>
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<p>Does Statism encourage peace, stability and good judgement on the part of ordinary people (which both these 'human beings' are) or does it encourage poor judgement that leans towards violent solutions? Where did that gun come from? What ideas about 'right' and 'wrong' went through the enforcer's mind in that moment? How is he, and millions like him, encouraged to think by Statism that conditions our minds from birth?</p>
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<p>In Hong Kong these distinctions have been highlighted thanks to the courage of the people forcing it out into the open. But you don't have to actually riot to make them. Once enough people can think beyond the State's hypocrisy and lies it only becomes necessary to withdraw consent. That's the peaceful route away from this Statist chaos. That's Anarchy. That's Agorism.</p>
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