st. louis cop: “If you don’t want to get killed, don’t show up in front of me.”

[scaredyclassic]

i read poetry for news.

[scaredyclassic]

if anyone still gets the paper, heres an interesting thing to do i learned forom the GRIPMASTERS MANUAL.

take a sheet of newspaper. hold in fingertips. crumple using all fingers till it’s in a ball in the hand.

try it. it feels awesome.

news you can use

[ltsddd]

[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=ltsdd][quote=scaredyclassic]is this guy just a weird deviant as the department says or is this indicative of a general frame of mind some other cops patrol in…
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“I’m a cop. If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t challenge me”

This came from a former cop who’s a “professor” of homeland security.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/08/19/im-a-cop-if-you-dont-want-to-get-hurt-dont-challenge-me/
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I believe the professor says that avoiding confrontation with police is the “realistic” way to not get hurt. But he goes on to say that police should use other means to diffuse tense situations, and that he’s with the ACLU.[/quote]

I am not not sure what exactly this “professor” was trying to convey. Especially in one paragraph he wrote:

“if you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you. Don’t argue with me…”

and a couple paragraphs down:

“And you don’t have to submit to an illegal stop or search. You can refuse consent to search your car or home if there’s no warrant (though a pat-down is still allowed if there is cause for suspicion). Always ask the officer whether you are under detention or are free to leave. Unless the officer has a legal basis to stop and search you, he or she must let you go.”

[NotCranky]

[quote=harvey][quote=Blogstar]It’s amazing to me that you take my views on this to mean I watch Fox and listen to Rush Limbaugh. You must have an “either you’re with us or against” us mentality that goes along with the mafia- like nature of the two major political parties that I described in an earlier post.[/quote]

It’s amazing how there are millions of people of the US population watching Fox, Limbaugh and company – outlets whom are almost always in lock step on their talking points and positions – and yet nobody who shares these same positions in internet discussions will admit to tuning in to these shows.

Either we must have some massive population of independent thinkers that come to the exact same conclusions as the Fox editorial staff (often word-for-word) — or perhaps there is some secret telepathic broadcast?

I can’t explain it.[/quote]
O.K. I admit it , here is some more FOX news stuff I was looking at.
http://disinfo.com/2014/07/cornel-west-obama-democrats/

I don’t really know much about that site but it goes to show you such “diverse” corners from which you can hear things you don’t like!

The only persons name I know form FOX is Hannity and I could not pick him out of a line up! Thanks for the laughs!

[NotCranky]

Reminds me of the time I was the only white man on my ships basketball team in the Navy. Some black guys who couldn’t make the team started calling me “Mr. Suburbia” …little did they know that just a few years earlier I was in a black head of household foster home , still not on the right sided of the tracks but in a better neighborhood than I grew up in.

When will poor people realize that how you vote is not going to affect your success much? That’s the myth that is probably really killing a lot of poor people. People pimpng Obama as a hope for poor black people instead of telling the truth are not helping.

People like you, Harvey, who are shouting down everyone who disagrees with them, are part of the problem.

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=Blogstar]
When will poor people realize that how you vote is not going to affect your success much? That’s the myth that is probably really killing a lot of poor people. People pimpng Obama as a hope for poor black people instead of telling the truth are not helping.
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Poor, or rich, how you vote doesn’t immediately affect your own life.

But voting for leaders who stand for principles of human rights rather than “hard reality” bends the arc of the moral universe towards justice.

On an individual level, we may, at times or even frequently, act based on “reality” to gain benefit or protect our own skin, but we must value principles and we should expect a governing system based on principles of human rights.

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