Cycloptichorn wrote:Willows wrote:I find people that don't have the balls to be cops and who just sit at a computer whining all day to be morally repugnant.
Oh, mm-hmm. Nice to see your morals are well-adjusted; beating people is okay, complaining about beating people, not okay.
You're certainly getting off to a great start here at A2K.
You think it's a correct thing, that cops allow each other to break the law - and do nothing about it?
Cycloptichorn
Willows - You're getting off to a rip snorting great start here. Don't mind Cyclo.
Cyclo and his fellow cop-haters want us all to focus on the same point their tunnel vision points them towards.
Without a doubt there are cops who let their power go to their pointed heads. I've run across a few over my life. F'rinstance: As an 18 year old long haired hippie, I and my two friends (brothers) were playing golf on a public course. Contrary to all the hi-falutin rules of golf we three were playing with only two bags of clubs. Since we were relatively good at the game, our handicap wasn't slowing anyone down, and yet while on the 11th hole, while putting out, the a-hole behind us hit a (really great) shot and put his ball right amidst ours. He wasn't so good, of course, that he intentionally missed hitting us. He could have easily beaned one of us.
My best bud, now a scratch golfer on the Country Club circuit, turned and flipped the a-hole the Bird. Next thing we know, a-hole and babe in tow (impressing a woman had something to do with this?) are motoring up to the Green in their cart. A-hole storms from the cart to the Green, flashing a gold (Dick) badge and yelling "Spread eagle mother fu**ers!"
Little did Detective A-Hole know but one of my surrogate Irish family was the chief of homicide in our LI county. When the elder brother tried to tell Dick A-Hole that it was all cool and that he was the brother of a constabulary big whig, Dick A smacked him in the face and threw him to the ground. By now the jackass had drawn a gun from his fat ankled sock. As is typical in these sort of events, time slowed to a crawl. I looked to the right and saw the younger brother, (my best bud) coming upon Dick A-Hole with a putter raised above his head.
Fortunately, my screaming "Whoa! Stop!" had a mollifying effect. Dick A-Hole paused as did younger brother Best Bud.
Suddenly Detective A-Orifice saw the light and apologized profusely. Meanwhile enraged Best Bud screamed for his badge number.
End of story: Gold Badged Anal Orifice slinked away and we played on.
I still wonder whether or not A-Hole came up short because of the Perps connections with the elite police or that he realized what an A-Hole he was being.
Regardless, this was a cop who should not have been a cop. However, I am now in my 50's, and he is the only rogue cop I can cite. To some extent this is because I tend to abide by The Law and don't attract belligerent cops as I did as a hippie.
Within my family there are numerous NYC cops who have jobbed the system and gotten a permanent disability pension through questionable means. These "rogue" cops piss me off as much as the ultra-violent ones, and I will never be considered a big time booster for the police.
Nevertheless, the upstanding cops are worth ten fold of any other public oriented servant. And, they are not in the minority.
I've had my personal problems with cops, but if I find myself in a bad neighborhood with menacing thugs approaching, I want a cop, not an environmentalist, ACLU lawyer et al, approaching.
In the long run, all this talk leads to the conclusion that we, as individual citizens, need to be armed in a manner that we can rely upon ourselves and no one else.
The folks in this forum can argue all they want about the chaos of armed citizens, but when an unarmed citizen loses all that he or she is, are they willing to accept this as collateral damage?
The credible anti-war argument is what political goal is equal to or superior to the extinguishment of all an individual soldier can or will be?
Where the anti-war protesters find themselves on the side of politics rather than truth is when it becomes clear that they care very little for the individual lives of those who protect our freedoms at home or abroad.
The Cyclos of the world are not prepared to grant these poor bastards one inch of slack. Typical Liberal: "We are the Voice of the Common Folk except for those among the Common Folk who won't vote Democratic!"
Another thread on A2K is related to the offensive declaration of Rush Limbaugh that American soldiers who do not support the war in Iraq are "phony soldiers."
Jump all over Limbaugh if you will, but for half a second contemplate how far from your own opinions he may be.
Cops are phony protectors of the people!
Cops are incapable of 100% virtuosity and therefore are scum!
A cop gave me a ticket for speeding one day and so all of them are Nazi thugs!
Hate the miscreants who rape 93 year old women, who sell addictive drugs to 4th graders, who beat the sh*t out of people who are too different for them, who drive like an Indy racer on your public highway.
Hate the police who reign them in and not the miscreants, and be all that a Liberal can be.
