Thomas Paine's version of "you didn't build that":
"Separate an individual from society,and give him an island or a continent to possess,and he cannot acquire personal property. He cannot be rich. So inseparably are the means connected with the end,in all cases,that where the former do not exist the latter cannot be obtained. All accumulation, therefore,of personal property,beyond what a man's own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes on every principle of justice,of gratitude,and of civilization,a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came"
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Florida police responded to a burglar alarm over the weekend by allegedly bursting into an 11-year-old girl’s bedroom, pointing a gun at her and asking her if she was the homeowner.
The girl was on her bed watching television in her Groveland, Florida home when the incident took place, as reported WFTV-TV.
She said one of the officers pushed her to the ground and held her there with his knee while the other officer pointed his gun at her.
“I was very scared and didn’t know what to do,” she said in an interview after the incident. She recounted that the officers then asked her if she was the homeowner. When she said “No,” they left her room to go to her father’s room down the hall. “Someone should get fired for doing something like this,” the girl’s father, Jean Guirand, told WFTV. “She was traumatized.”
Groveland police launched an internal investigation after the TV station called seeking comment. WFTV dug into the two officers’ files and found they had other disciplinary infractions. One, James Festa, was reportedly reprimanded for botching a child abuse investigation and suspended for sleeping on the job. The other, John Rigdon, was reportedly disciplined twice for filing false police reports. Both are three-year veterans of the police force.
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