These are self-described communists writing. They say the police will justify future oppression with these murders. Then the communists do the same thing, justifying these murders with unrelated police abuse cases. They're the same as what they claim to oppose.
Let me disagree with everyone - well, except Robbie. I totally agree with the 'reprehensible...and sick" statement. But this quote from the commie article: “That said, we also know that anger over police repression and murder is so deep that it should come as no surprise to anyone that somebody would, sooner or later, act on that burning rage. Especially when the so-called justice system demonstrates time after time after time that police can, and do, murder with impunity.” Actually expresses opinions we have discussed on this list - albeit in different contexts.
The random murder of the two cops, sitting in their car, was a cowardly and despicable act. There was no cause-and-effect - just find two guys and shoot them when they were not looking. I cannot express the depth of my contempt for Abdullah and my sorrow for the deaths of the police.
But I am afraid of the police. I am afraid that the commie statement is actually correct. I have had friends who have been kicked and slammed into walls by policemen. Police are powerful, and they are often not 'good'. I am an easygoing, normal looking 'little brown woman' and I fly well under their criminal profiling radar. But I am aware that people who do look odd or dangerous get treated differently than I do.
One of the bad things about this whole situation is that it disguises the fact that the police force is kinda floundering in an ethical morass. One might almost say a 'spiritual morass' since the concept that they are the arm of the Law and both Law and Police are our Protectors has been lost somewhere.
I am a normal looking, slightly above average height, white guy. One would think that I could fly under the radar.
I have had my car torn apart at customs for no reason. I once had a cop speed across my path and stop in front of me when riding a dirt bike in a field with a motocross track, jump out as I laid the bike down in order to avoid crashing into him, while he pulled his gun laid it over the roof and pointed it at me... I was making noise some of the neighbors didn't like... I pushed my bike home after kissing the cop's butt... Once I was ticketed for not producing a proof of insurance fast enough while I rummaged through my glove box... I was also ticketed once for disturbing the peace because a guest of mine that left my party just before the cops arrived was blaring his car radio in my yard... On U.S. Route 40 in Pennsylvania while driving home from a car show in a sports car, looky lous boxed me in and I was forced to drive over a semi truck tire tread that was thrown. The front spoiler and lower radiator mounts were torn up and I was forced to make hasty repairs on the side of the highway. A Pennsylvania state patrolman stopped and instead of picking up the tire 1/4 mile back, in order to help avoid any further incidents, or offering to help, decided to hassle me. While I was under the car wiring up my radiator and spoiler so I could limp home he asked if he could search the car and insinuated that I might be running drugs in such a flashy car... I did not consent even though I had nothing to hide. He eventually went his way after giving much harassment, but no help. White guys have run ins with the law too.
Some Cops like to push their weight around. Others I know do not and will readily admit that they work with some who do and that they are the school yard bullies that never grew up or those who were the recipients of the bullying and now have a badge and are getting even.
That said: Each and every time I had a run in with the police I was respectful and avoided any serious conflict and lived to have my day in court if necessary.
Life is full of unpleasant people in every walk of life. Fortunately there are also the pleasant and friendly ones.
I am glad you are one of the latter and also glad you are here. Happy holidays, O.A.
Hello Robbie53024. I am sure to raise a glass of Glenfiddich some time in the next few days. I always look better then :) Happy holidays! Regards, O.A.
I am just enormously glad that you are here, bringing reason to bear in a world focused heavily on extremes of behavior, as though they represented the large groups whose fringes they occupy.
The real seat of the communist party is and always has been at the University of Illinois. Guess who has ties to that institution beside Bill Ayers? Here’s a clue B.H.O.
There are no college students and hippies protesting Iraq like I saw way back then. That's when Obama's Marxist friend Bill Ayers was blowing stuff up. Now its race hustlers stirring people up over how things can go bad when you resist arrest. Meanwhile the black-on-black slaughter continues.
Interesting, that the only people who consistently attack the police, aside from anarchists, are those having no respect for the lives, liberties, or properties of others.
Knowing who they are makes their comments irrelevant. No Communist ever told the truth about anything. I wonder why anyone would even bother to read such B.S.
Yeah, I know. It's like a rash. You know you shouldn't scratch it, but you can't help it. "Hand me down my rusty hatchet Somebody mentioned, do not scratch it." --Ogden Nash
Yes. And it's easy to unwittingly play right into their hands.
The random murder of the two cops, sitting in their car, was a cowardly and despicable act. There was no cause-and-effect - just find two guys and shoot them when they were not looking. I cannot express the depth of my contempt for Abdullah and my sorrow for the deaths of the police.
But I am afraid of the police. I am afraid that the commie statement is actually correct. I have had friends who have been kicked and slammed into walls by policemen. Police are powerful, and they are often not 'good'. I am an easygoing, normal looking 'little brown woman' and I fly well under their criminal profiling radar. But I am aware that people who do look odd or dangerous get treated differently than I do.
One of the bad things about this whole situation is that it disguises the fact that the police force is kinda floundering in an ethical morass. One might almost say a 'spiritual morass' since the concept that they are the arm of the Law and both Law and Police are our Protectors has been lost somewhere.
Jan
I am a normal looking, slightly above average height, white guy. One would think that I could fly under the radar.
I have had my car torn apart at customs for no reason. I once had a cop speed across my path and stop in front of me when riding a dirt bike in a field with a motocross track, jump out as I laid the bike down in order to avoid crashing into him, while he pulled his gun laid it over the roof and pointed it at me... I was making noise some of the neighbors didn't like... I pushed my bike home after kissing the cop's butt... Once I was ticketed for not producing a proof of insurance fast enough while I rummaged through my glove box... I was also ticketed once for disturbing the peace because a guest of mine that left my party just before the cops arrived was blaring his car radio in my yard... On U.S. Route 40 in Pennsylvania while driving home from a car show in a sports car, looky lous boxed me in and I was forced to drive over a semi truck tire tread that was thrown. The front spoiler and lower radiator mounts were torn up and I was forced to make hasty repairs on the side of the highway. A Pennsylvania state patrolman stopped and instead of picking up the tire 1/4 mile back, in order to help avoid any further incidents, or offering to help, decided to hassle me. While I was under the car wiring up my radiator and spoiler so I could limp home he asked if he could search the car and insinuated that I might be running drugs in such a flashy car... I did not consent even though I had nothing to hide. He eventually went his way after giving much harassment, but no help. White guys have run ins with the law too.
Some Cops like to push their weight around. Others I know do not and will readily admit that they work with some who do and that they are the school yard bullies that never grew up or those who were the recipients of the bullying and now have a badge and are getting even.
That said: Each and every time I had a run in with the police I was respectful and avoided any serious conflict and lived to have my day in court if necessary.
Life is full of unpleasant people in every walk of life. Fortunately there are also the pleasant and friendly ones.
I am glad you are one of the latter and also glad you are here.
Happy holidays,
O.A.
I am sure to raise a glass of Glenfiddich some time in the next few days. I always look better then :)
Happy holidays!
Regards,
O.A.
sincerely remember and miss glenfiddich!!! -- enjoy! -- j
Happy holidays to you and yours.
Hope your heart is repeatedly warmed in ways that work for you this season.
Best wishes,
O.A.
bringing reason to bear in a world focused heavily
on extremes of behavior, as though they represented
the large groups whose fringes they occupy.
Thank You, Jan! -- j
I appreciate it.
Jan
But now there is no Vietnam . . .
That's when Obama's Marxist friend Bill Ayers was blowing stuff up.
Now its race hustlers stirring people up over how things can go bad when you resist arrest. Meanwhile the black-on-black slaughter continues.
"Hand me down my rusty hatchet
Somebody mentioned, do not scratch it."
--Ogden Nash
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