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08-11-2010, 06:56 PM
lardman
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Issue 157 was shocking and appalling, in my opinion.
*Spoiler*
Snake-Eyes, Scarlet, and Duke are on the run somewhere in the Southwestern U.S. Cobra is running the boarder patrol, and a group of "concerned citizens" are armed and trying to turn in a group of "illegal immigrants". Snake-Eyes is appalled by this, so he convinces Duke to put a stop to it.
The "concerned citizens" are American citizens. They are armed, but they seem to be enforcing the law. Snake-Eyes and Duke kill them. They slaughter them. It turns out that the "illegal immigrants" were actually Americans of Mexican descent, but they weren't being injured by the "concerned citizens".
Bottom Line: Snake-Eyes and Duke slaughtered a group of conservative Americans because they disagreed with the immigration law.
I'm outraged. I've lost ALL respect for Larry Hama. He has written my childhood heroes as murdering radicals with a Liberal Agenda... what's next, Tunnel Rat bombing the local NRA chapter? How about Roadblock gunning down a bunch of Pro-Life protesters. Maye be Low-Light could lay out in the desert and shoot any boarder patrol officers who are getting too close to illegal immigrants as they're crossing the boarder? Maybe Recondo could do some work helping the Columbian Drug Cartels because they're funding the rebels?
It's ridiculous.
Hmm... Well my take on it was that a bunch of "red-necks" decided to take the law into their own hands, as they didn't like the look of the supposed Mexican workers. They therefore decided to shoot the law enforcing Cobra police officers and were about to turn their automatic weapons on the aforementioned bunch of innocent supposedly-Mexican labourers. It turns out the labourers are indeed citizens of the USA, so I can't see any issue whatsoever re law enforcement.
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The "concerned citizens" are American citizens. They are armed, but they seem to be enforcing the law.
Is vigilantiism lawful in the USA? I can't see how shooting the Cobra troops (who we must remember are acting as part of the government) is lawful.
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Bottom Line: Snake-Eyes and Duke slaughtered a group of conservative Americans because they disagreed with the immigration law.
Or imo as they jumped to a conclusion (quite possible based on their dislike of immigration law) and decided that shooting the law enforcement officers (and then presumably followed by the alleged immigrants themselves) was a good way to settle the matter. Seems pretty clear cut to me...
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