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It's always a bad idea for a

Erica — Wed, 23 May 2012 11:21:53 +0000

In reply to Police to SCOTUS: Need Blank Check to Tase Anyone

It's always a bad idea for a police officer to make a situation worse. The officer should have advised the woman that refusing to acknowledge the ticket was a crime and that he would testify in court that she did refuse to sign. (presumably he had it on car cam.) but arresting her on the spot, even if Abe was bei g difficult? Bad idea. He could have asked her if there was anyone she could call for legal advice.

Lotta ways to keep this one from going bad. Officers didn't use their brains, and instead provoked a fight instead of saying "I'm sorry to say we will see you in court, have a nice day."

and tasing???? No way. That this case is going to the supreme court should provoke the profoundest embarrassment in those officers and their superiors.

and this leads to this

Elusive Trope — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:23:44 +0000

In reply to maybe it is because i don't

and this leads to this

of course this might make

Elusive Trope — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:21:13 +0000

In reply to maybe it is because i don't

of course this might make more sense

maybe it is because i don't

Elusive Trope — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:16:11 +0000

In reply to Geez Trope, sounds like you

maybe it is because i don't try to look for who is at fault - the police and the thieves are both at fault -

this was our role model growing up in the mean streets of Seattle

I am reminded of a song

Resistance — Thu, 17 May 2012 04:57:20 +0000

In reply to To tell the truth, I'd tase

I am reminded of a song

To tell the truth, I'd tase

Qnonymous — Thu, 17 May 2012 04:08:26 +0000

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To tell the truth, I'd tase Skip Gates just because he strikes me as a bit of a prick. Hell, when it comes down to it, I'd like to tase Obama as well. Maybe even a coupla times. Just to see if there's any part of him left that responds like a human being.

It's not a racial thing though, cause the list of who I'd like to tase is actually pretty long. Some might even call it comprehensive. For instance, I think every cop should be tased just to give 'em a taste of it. And all of Wall St should be tased til they sign over every fucking penny they ever stole, which is every fucking penny they ever touched. Hollywood, you hafta tase, just because we need to balance all the unnecessary abuse we just gave Wall Street. Then there's any churchmen who've ever been on TV, plus the ones not good enough to make it. Professional athletes PLUS basketball players. And the state of Florida, with double helpings for anyone who worked on the 2000 election, Al Gore gets tased just for marrying Tipper, you get tased for arguing too much, Genghis for knowing Articleman, Trope should be tased, by cops, and forced to shout "thank you sir, may I have another," Dick should get it just because he'd enjoy it so much, plus he'd have one hell of an experience to write about, the entire medical profession, from big pharma to the insurers through to your friendly family doc, who secretly hates dogs and roams the streets at night putting the to sleep, anyone who believes it's worthwhile fighting the war on drugs, people who stand up at sporting events to sing the national anthem, Democrats because they're pretty much guaranteed to be self-righteous blow-hards without the guts heart brains or commitment required to the Republicans, a party led by the biggest morons since Milli Vanilli, plus I'd tase anyone with more than 2 cars, 3 cats, 4 bathrooms or 5 years in college, every Victoria's Secret model, hell, every model period, just a little tase though, cause too much and they'd gain weight, Nebraska, the dumb fucks, and Oklahoma just because they all look like Nebraskans, the makers of Kill Bill, people who blog about tennis, any French tourists, because after all, what kind of a Frenchman are you to come to America in your spare time, I mean, Jesus, people, and so, I guess what I'm saying is, when you come down to it, my list is pretty much all-inclusive. Which means....

Drop your pants and bite your belt, America. You got some voltage coming your way.

Geez Trope, sounds like you

artappraiser — Thu, 17 May 2012 03:05:19 +0000

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Geez Trope, sounds like you live in the neighborhood I grew up in (Jerry Springer land before Jerry Springer existed.) Your examples remind me to be grateful (and proud) that my current Bronx neighbors do not lead lives like that, despite probably being of similar socio-economic levels and with similar background stressors.

Whoever is at fault (i.e. the citizens themselves, the police, the laws, segregation of groups, poverty, unemployment, "welfare," the "system", changing male roles, violence in entertainment & ubiquity of firearms, drugs, lack of education, yadda yadda whatevah, take your pick...) when the culture gets like that, one thing I believe from experience is: it doesn't have to be that way, it's not an insolvable problem.

Shoot 'em all and let Trope

Donal — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:43:47 +0000

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Shoot 'em all and let Trope sort them out.

Or we might reword that and

Elusive Trope — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:20:54 +0000

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Or we might reword that and suppose the citizens are either assholes or idiots. I have numerous personal experiences, let alone the numerous examples caught on tape, where the cops tried to just let everyone go home and they still pushed things til everyone went to jail.

Lets go to Walmart and wait for when the first pregnant woman comes in to buy some alcohol? How long do we think we will have to wait?

There was the time when the guy in the house next to mine was screaming "open the door bitch, so i can fucking kill you!" After the police showed up after we called them, she tried to hide him, then took a taxi to go bail him out.

Of course nothing compares to the next tenet who shot a guy from the upstair window after he ran from the house (the guy in the burger kind parking lot kitty corner was shot in the leg on a richochet) when the tenet confronted him on buying his girlfriend's ring from her daughter. The standoff made the news....more details but I won't go on about it.

One can take the position that crime would go down if the police didn't exist, just like there would be less war if the US Military disbanded. But that is just leftist garbage that makes legitimate leftist proposal all the more harder to grab hold. And that is why I so pissy about these idealist pissings about The Man.

I would point to my response

Elusive Trope — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:08:33 +0000

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I would point to my response to NCD below. Because the state cannot just walk into people's homes (for good reason), the traffic stop does become one of the significant ways that the state is able to intervene. Personally, I think being pulled over because one did not use one's right turn signal is pretty petty. But if the person is intoxicated....

As I drived across the country recently, the Illinois state police pulled me over because I drifted over the line between the two lanes on our side of the highway. I was exhausted and had no memory of it. Of course they thought I was drunk when they pulled me over. They soon realized it was sleep deprivation. But they still searched my entire car. And I had and have no problem with that.

Lets all remember Timothy McVeigh was pulled over.