IPCC report - arch-typing
On Wednesday portions of a not yet released Independent Police
Complaints Commission report were leaked to the British press. This
report is an investigation into the events of the shooting of Jean
Charles Menezes in the London Subway. Led to a spate of articles
revisting this: I had written a post on this just the other day. Most of it
Sunday night. To me It seemed this affair was under reported. The
significant fact in the story was not the mortal error and what was
going to be done about it here and in the future. The significant fact
was that Mr. Menezes was not who people needed him to be - a terrorist,
and this was inconvenient. While most of these articles press the
conventional concerns of having a shoot-to-kill-policy. More pointedly
a shoot-first-ask-questions-later policy (to use a favorite
phrase of my father), and subsequent apparent police stonewalling if
not cover up. I still favor viewing this as a falling back to Archetypes. A
societal and subconcious reversion process. It is a profoundly
powerful flexor of events. Capable of distorting anyone - anyone at all
- into seeming to be the enemy in a given moment. In coverage on the
past two days only the Sydney Morning Herald picks up on this angle, in
any way . Otherwise it seems only I am saying this.
On
Mircea Eliade - Wikipedia: The last paragraph of that post contains some
language which is a close paraphrase of his writing, I should have made
a more formal footnote there. Here is a near comprehensive list of his
writings from RLIN
RedLightGreen -- Search Eliade, Mircea
The Final report from the IPCC may be more, or possibly, less revealing than these leaks. I await what it might say.
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