Re: RAT Cheese it, the Fuzz!

[jonoh1@juno.com]

I am more than happy to bring this thread to an close. Save for one
thing. You seem to believe that I didn't "address" what you'd actually
written. Bullshit. Perhaps I didn't address what you <meant> to write. Or
<thought> you wrote. Different issues. I did, indeed, address what you'd
written in your original post.

You said:  "They (the cops) don't mean to be evil, most of them aren't
consciously out to smash faces and use weapons. but the psychology of
cops is rooted in fear, anger and pain: they became cops in the first
place because it seemed the most effective way of dealing with a sense of
personal helplessness and terror. These guys - of course most of them are
men - were smacked around by their Daddy's when they were 7. Or they were
thrashed in the school yard. They're violated people to a man, and guns
and truncheons sprout from their hands as a direct consequence, like dark
flowers."

This, to me, is no different than someone saying that all gay men are
that way because they lacked a father figure in their early lives and, as
a result, are trying to fill a void left over from a childhood lacking in
male to male attention. And, due to this lacking, they make up for it by
seducing men in hopes of replacing the lost love resultant of the absent
parent. All the homosexuals I knew and met while growing up in a theatre
family (and believe me, there were a lot of them) behaved this way so all
homosexuals behave this way. To a man. Regardless of whether they grew up
in Muncie, Indiana or San Francisco. The psychology of the male
homosexual is rooted in fear, helplessness and pain: they become
homosexual only by acting on it. And they act on it in the first place
because is seemed the most effective way of dealing with a sense of
personal helplessness and terror. 

I am in no way discounting your experience with the police. But, your
broad generalization (whether you view it to be "unfortunately" true or
not) is dangerous, irresponsible, misleading and, I believe, ultimately
only partially true. I'm sure there is a percentage (maybe big, maybe
small) of cops who go into the force simply to deal with their own
personal traumas and psychoses. I hold that there could be just as many
who go into the force for more altruistic reasons. Perhaps your family
didn't associate with them for reasons one can only guess at. But I know
for a fact they exist. It's easy to paint the enemy in big, broad
strokes. It makes them an easier target to hit. 

So, actually, Bill, it's you who hasn't addressed what's been written by
me. Why the broad generalizations? It's starting to look like nothing
other than prejudice on your part.

And I haven't been in my thirties in years.

Jonathan






On Tue, 07 Dec 1999 11:55:57 -0800 "William Houts" <houts.w@ghc.org>
writes:
>>   So your beef is that I didn't acknowledge the clearly dreadful
>>childhood you experienced? Ok. Sorry, dude. What can I say? But <I>
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>Oh, forget it, for Christ's sake.  You're not addressing anything that 
>I've actually written, anyway.
> 
>Dear Concerrned Parents,
>
>Jonny is now thirty-something, a frequent user of the Internet and he 
>STILL can't read...
>
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>    --Bill
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>

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