For Well You Know...

Remember all the secret sites in Europe the US military surreptitiously set up to interrogate prisoners with torture techniques that were not permitted legally?  Remember how other countries were pressured to go along with the Bigs, and some did -- either were afraid or simply not strong enough not to be bullied?

I remember.  And wonder what in the world has changed since then.

... that It's a Fool Who Plays It Cruel 

            by Making His World a Little Colder...

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* The man I admired most in the State of MN v Derek Chauvin trial was the Irish-born American scientist from Loyola** who testified about what exactly caused George Floyd's death.  I don't think he had a "side". I don't think he was out to get the white officer.  If anything, I think he likely pitied him, and believed the officer scientifically ignorant.  He testified to his expertise. It wasn't his job to determine penalty or punishment. But he refused to play along with the still-commonly voiced belief that Floyd died of drugs ingested.  No, it was the physical compression that cut off the air supply to the brain and caused death.  

Remember, they called him back again to the stand, days later, and he impressed with his expertise, no matter how they tried to trick him or trip him up. He knew the science. He told the truth.  He ran the experiments.  He tested himself. He stuck by his conclusions.

Reporters shouldn't be on anybody's side either.  They should want to know for the sake of knowing. Like scientists, the best are naturally curious.  Questions knaw like animals knaw to escape their bounds.

It's wrong to assume that the doctor or scientist was out to get Derek Chauvin or had a thing against the police. He just stood by his education and training, armed with scientific truths, and reached out when he saw lessers minds making claims that were untrue.  He wanted to testify.

** Martin Tobin.  

He won that case, along with good lawyering.  Science. Curiosity. Fealty to Truth.  He won, honestly.  And I wonder too, when they locked Chauvin up, for a long loong time -- as an example, to serve as the posterbadboy for what others too had been doing for years in the department -- if Martin Toobin either celebrated the win or even cried for what had been done.   I'd bet neither. Maybe he prayed.  More likely that.  Did his small part, then left the rest in honestly Bigger Hands.

Human workers in his image.
Be better no matter your beliefs.
Perform up.