Re: RAT Cheese it, the Fuzz!

[Mathew Bretz <mabretz@cbomedia.com>]

i personally saw a cop twist a full grown man in half, laugh and spit out the seeds.

William Houts wrote:

> Twaddle and bosh, Eliza.  I was raised in a community that was made up mostly of military officers, prison guards and law enforcement officials.  They ddidn't talk about "fairness", you silly cow, they talked about keeping the niggers in their place. Fucking with non-law enforcement officials was something they laughed about at barbecues. They also smoked weed from the Evidence Room.  Rare?  It happened all the time, they bragged about it at parties.
>
> Ever see the Rodney King video, Little Orphan Annie?  It's not the rule, but it's not a rare exception, either. Talk to your black neighbors and find out just how mysteriously often they get stopped by traffic cops.
>
> My analysis of cops is certainly not true of them all, but I didn't get it from Dr. Joyce Brown.  I got it from the guys themselves.  "Yeah, Daddy smacked me around, heh heh heh."
>
> You're the one who's living in  Cloudcuckooland, sister.
>
>        --Bill
>
>
> >>> <Thsimple@aol.com> 12/06/99 09:33AM >>>
> 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