Re: RAT Cheese it, the Fuzz!

["William Houts" <houts.w@ghc.org>]

>specifically, is that if one is going to make such broad generalizations
>about an entire group of people (all cops are cops because they were
>abused as children) and assume them to be true, then the opposite could
>be equally true just as easily. (All protesters are tree-hugging


You're still not cluing in to what was actually said, and continue to behave as if you're addressing a child.  

Some generalizations, I fear, are based in experience.  My experience, as I've pointed out twice now, and which has been ignored by you in favor of freshman satire, is one of living cheek-by-jowel with the people I've described. Those people spoke casually about the violence of their early  lives, and nearly in the next breath spoke of the casual violence of their present occupations.  It hardly seems worthy of comment, let alone controversy,   to relate the former to the latter.  Because there was nothing special about these cops from Tacoma, Washington.  They could just as easily have come from LA, or Madison, Wisconsin. And I knew them from a thousand barbecues, keggers and baseball games. Bull sessions in the garage while they changed the oil.

What have you offered, on the other hand, but the canned pieties of a reactionary liberalism?  "Generalizations are bad!"   Well, good for you, Jonny.  You get a GOLD STAR. 


   --Bill