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Skriven 2016-05-29 19:37:27 av Ross Cassell (1:123/789.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Earl Croasmun (1:261/38.0)
Ärende: Socialism and solidarity
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Earl Croasmun -> Allen Prunty used his keyboard to write :

 ->>> What the states "should" have done with the money from their huge
 >> lawsuits
 >> of
 ->>> the tabacco companies - is provide free quit smoking products to
 >> smokers.

 >> This is the true reason why that guy got killed by a cop in NYC.  Yes
 >> the death was needless... and the cop should not have choked the poor
 >> man out.
 >> But if NY and NYC didn't have nearly $10 a pack TAXES in ciggarettes
 >> there would have been no need to have a black market in ciggarettes.
 >> The only crime that young man did was selling black market ciggerrettes
 >> on the street corner.

 EC> There were two real reasons why the guy died. First, when he was arrested,
he
 EC> physically resisted arrest. Second, he had a bad heart that gave out when
he
 EC> was taken down to the ground. Given his health problems, he should have
been
 EC> avoiding cigarettes and avoiding scuffles with the police.


Unfortunately, we all do not have cartoon like captions hovering above our
heads that state our health limitations..

A number of years ago, a guy was trying to fraudulently use a credit card at
the local Best Buy store, he was large and out of shape. Best Buy loss
prevention followed him out into the parking lot to detain him, in the scuffle
that ensued, he died because of his health condition.

Everyone blamed Best Buy for his death, and I am not saying that they are not
without some blame here, but the guy did willfully place himself into that
situation..

-- 
"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame
somebody else." - John Burroughs

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