Re: RAT Cheese it, the Fuzz!

[Thsimple@aol.com]

What a bunch of patronizing bullshit! Yikes!

I think everyone agrees it could've/should've been handled differently, but - 
really - regardless if the side you are on, it is ANIMAL and HUMAN NATURE to 
freak out when outnumbered with hostility hundreds to one. Pop psychology has 
little to do with it. Survival is all. And that is the way we are wired - 
kinder, gentler is useful until bodily harm is imminent - specious arguments 
about abusive upbringings aside. Some cops are cops because they have an 
acute sense of fairness - just like some protesters are protesters because 
they have the same.

My housemate, who used to demonstrate in the 60's and 70's finds it rather 
absurd that protesters are upset that they were fired on in various ways.  He 
found it a rather tame and gentle affair. Cops nowadays can't be nearly as 
thorough as they used to be.
You have a constitutional right to FREE SPEECH. If your free speech concerns 
1000's of people that could turn ugly(as it unfortunately did) I think it 
naive to think you could get out of it without physical violence. Certainly 
expected, due to the unpredicitible nature of a group dynamic. 

Llysa