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People like him and his twin, One Fried Mind, are a dime a dozen on the interweebs these days.

Tell me about it. All types may be found on the Web and that includes the ones you've described in your above statement.

The Internet is the perfect place for the individualist to hang out because they cannot be seen and no one expects anything physical from them. In real life outside the web, people normally shun these nonconformists.

Many a times, we might encounter people who've never experienced a normal interaction with another and stands alone. Some of these people were born to be alone and might have a physical and or mental disability which sets them apart. The Internet is their refuge.....it's only in normal back and forth dialogue will the difference between normal and abnormal be highlighted. The eccentric, never encountering physical relationships, there might be much mental and emotional frustration which sometime produces twisted thoughts of others and this may be seen in their posts.

The Internet is indeed a fascinating place to meet many strange others.

You hit the nail on the head there. I interact with people like goojohn and One Fried Mind mainly because I'm interested in their arguably twisted psychologies...

There is also the phenomenon of the true troll. This is a poster who doesn't necessarily believe in what he/she is posting at all but will post anything that is absurd and/or contradictory just to get a rise out of the rest of us. If their posts seem contradictory at times, it's because they have no convictions at all but are simply trying to upset the apple cart.

I don't think that giujohn or coldjoint fit into this category; they actually seem to have the the strange beliefs they espouse.

I'm interested in their arguably twisted psychologies...

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From the little I've read of giujohn, which turned me off almost immediately after our initial responses, he cames across as so very unsure of himself and borderline psychotic. giujohn spends an inordinate amount of time trying his best to put others down and to shore up his own intellect.

giujohn spends an inordinate amount of time trying his best to put others down and to shore up his own intellect.

I don't think that giujohn or coldjoint fit into this category; they actually seem to have the the strange beliefs they espouse.

How do you even know that an anonymous name on the internet is telling the truth when he claims to be or have been a cop or anything else?

Giujohn comes across to me as a good cop who works hard at his job and is sick and tired of people assuming that all cops are bad.

Several pages back, he said something about having worked with law enforcement as a drug snitch or something or other. I really didn't pay attention

If goojohn were such a good cop, he would be sensitive to, you know, evidence when it is presented. He would be able to distinguish between relevant evidence and grabasstic, cobbled-together, meaningless red herrings. And if being a good cop means that your strongest urge is to respond to dissent with name-calling ad homs, then maybe there are too many "good" cops.

Several pages back, he said something about having worked with law enforcement as a drug snitch or something or other. I really didn't pay attention, because, hey, it's the internet. People can claim whatever about themselves.

I've not seen him claim to be a cop.

At a time when violent crime in the US is the lowest in a generation why is there an epidemic of police violence?
Mark J. Perry | June 3, 2014, 9:24 pm



The violent crime rate has been almost cut in half over the last 20 years, from 747.1 violent crimes per 100,000 inhabitants in 1994 to only 366.1 crimes per 100,000 last year (see chart above). So why at the same time that violent crime has been declining so consistently have we seen such an accompanying epidemic of police violence and SWAT raids, and such a “rise of the warrior cop” in America? Or in the words of John Whitehead, why have so many police search warrants turned into violent death warrants, and why have SWAT teams turned into violent death squads at a time when violent crime is in free-fall?
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U.S. attorney general announces grant to study police racial profiling
BY JULIA EDWARDS
WASHINGTON Thu Sep 18, 2014 11:55am EDT

(Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday announced the award of a $4.75 million three-year grant to a group of educational and research organizations to study arrest data in five U.S. cities and implement changes to combat any findings of racial profiling.

The cities, which have yet to be chosen, will serve as pilots to test strategies for building trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve, Holder said.

Unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, following the shooting death of Michael Brown last month revived the importance of the initiative, Holder said, which originally had been announced in April.

"The events in Ferguson reminded us that we cannot allow tensions, which are present in so many neighborhoods across America, to go unresolved," Holder said.

The grant will be headed by law enforcement experts from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, along with Yale Law School, the Center for Policing Equity at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Urban Institute, a think tank based in Washington.

I haven't heard the NRA's analysis of the treaty to see if they found anything objectionable in it as it finally passed. But you know very well that, over the years, these UN kooks tried many times to put a civilian gun ban in this treaty, and that Snopes has a long and sordid history of outright lies about this.

How do you even know that an anonymous name on the internet is telling the truth when he claims to be or have been a cop or anything else?