And they can't really decide if they're Stasi, Nazi, Soviet, or what... And you can feel the sense of superiority dripping from the posts.
Welcome to Stasi America...The first post is a long open "letter" to cops. Way to long to c/p. So let's go to responses.
02-18-2010, 06:46 PM #3
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yup.
Need something that can be printed on a fast food wrapper.
Cops are dumb? Check!
02-18-2010, 06:50 PM #4
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I think this is important for people to read,if you have attention issues then read it in little pieces.Or watch the video,its pretty explanatory of the issue being presented.
If you cant sit down for an hour long video,I feel sorry for ya.
Often, this kind of behavior is explained away by authorities as 'bad apple' stuff-but its becoming apparent that this happens all too often,without any recourse for citizens,and no consequence for criminal perpetrators with badges.
This kind of abuse is occurring on a regular basis all too often to be a 'bad apple' issue.
Just like in other totalitarian oligarchies-if you have government authority,your above the law.
A badge confers special authority to be above the law,to abuse 'lowly' citizens at will.
Just like soviet Russia,Communist China,and Nazi Germany.
In America,if you have a badge,you can literally get away with murder.
Welcome to Stasi USA.
Well, which is it?
02-18-2010, 06:54 PM #5
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Oh, don't misunderstand.
I thought it was great. I believe it was polite, articulate and very true.
I also believe that the target audience lacks the capacity (on a whole) to grasp it.
Small words. Short sentences. and on a media that they will come into contact with often.
Cops are dumb? Check again!
02-18-2010, 09:21 PM #8
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"If you cant sit down for an hour long video,I feel sorry for ya."
You should think hard about your intentions while writing these types of things.
Are you making yourself feel important, or are you trying to clearly and effectively communicate concerns/ideas?
The latter doesn't seem likely - and I'd go as far as saying many police officers (or cops as you call them) would crumple this paper up in light of assumed arrogance.
Assumed arrogance? Ronulans, like DUmmies, are veritable founts of arrogance. If you don't agree with a Ronulan (or a DUmmie, as the case may be) you're just simply not smart enough to grasp their brilliance.
02-19-2010, 04:11 AM #9
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Agree. It's not too long for US, I read the whole thing. It's too long for THEM.
More arrogance. If only it hurt.
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These kinds of warnings falling on deaf ears remind me of a story I was told by someone very special I met at a religious (Jewish) function once.
This person had a certain tattoo on their wrist.
To make this short,as I've already obviously used up my allotment of other people attention with the OP,the story went like this-
In Nazi Germany,and Nazi occupied Europe-
There were rumors of special military police units kicking in the doors of private dwellings,murdering and robbing-all with the sanction of government.
Rumors of brutal mass shootings by the police.
Stories of concentration camps,of death camps.
But the people couldnt believe it to be true.Until they saw it for themselves,until their countries were occupied,their homes violated,their children machinegunned in the streets and themselves shorn of all human rights and marched into the work/starvation/death camps.
Those rumors fell of 'deaf ears'.
I'm not trying to 'fear monger'-but we cannot ignore the incidents depicted in the video,or chalk them up as being 'isolated incidents' any longer-the current 'Gestapo/Stasi' culture in our nations police forces will only get worse and increase in frequency the more we choose to bury our heads in the sand.
We need to talk about them as much as we talk about all other issues relating to Liberty.
I can see no graver threat to Liberty than a status quo enforcing its will by a violent national 'policing' arm.
I'm not saying were there yet,but 'fusion centers',the 'PATRIOT act' and SWAT teams jumping on every occasion to storm private homes are definitely bridging the gap between peace officers and the Nazi SS Ordnungspolizei /Einsatzgruppen.
This might chafe the arse of some police who might read it,but like the title to this post says-
"Choose this day whom you will serve".
Hyperbole much. Asshole. I don't really trust cops too much, but that's just pathological.
