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To: average joe who wrote (70943)	1/4/2009 7:14:01 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Yes, the Polish immigrant was killed by police, but it wasn't intentional death by any means. It wasn't even indifference to death. As human rights abuses go, it was very very low on the scale of abuse. It was more just the usual casual abuse of authority. Authorities love wielding their power and are prone to taking opportunities to demonstrate just how much they have. As for 1931, human rights around the world were very limited in those days. That's really going back to find abuses. It says nothing about how things are these days. Compared Canada then with Russia then, or Germany then. Being a Jew in Germany in the 1930s for example was a real lesson in human rights abuse. Living in China with burgeoning Japanese human rights ethical standards wasn't all that great either. New Zealand was rough on people opposing the state. My father's cousin Ormond Burton was gaoled in WWII for speaking in public against the war [after getting high military honours after his efforts in WWI]. Today, we remain state serfs with very limited property rights and personal rights. Mqurice