THE BRITISH THREAD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENCa43r9jmY&mode=related&search=

Smorgie's quotes from youTube reminded me of an article in the paper this week, when an English academic on a conference in Atlanta was set upon by the local busies, for jaywalking.

He is shown filmed on this clip (there are three parts) after his release from jail.

If you stick with this interview, it is rewarding. I think LE will like it.

MY GOD! THE ARROGANCE!

Yesterday I opened my show -- a portion of my show that most of you don't hear -- with a bit of a rant about a story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It seems that a British historian was arrested for jaywalking in Atlanta. To make matters worse, he wasn't detained and "taken down," as it were, by a uniformed Atlanta police officer, but by an off-duty cop who was working as a security guard at a nearby hotel. At first my sympathies were with the Brit. After all, it's hard to forget the Atlanta woman who was body-slammed by a cop at the airport a few years ago. Now, after reading this column written by the historian, I'm ready to buy that cop/security guard some lunch.

The professor has this to say about our his experience as it relates to our country and our president:

"I have long known, as any reasonable person must, that the courts are the citizen's only protection against a rogue executive and rationally uncontrolled security forces. Though my own misadventure was trivial - and in perspective laughable - it resembles what is happening to the world in the era of George W. Bush. The planet is policed by a violent, arbitrary, stupid and dangerous force. Within the USA, the courts struggle to maintain individual rights under the bludgeons of the "war on terror," defending Guantanamo victims and striving to curb the excesses of the system. We need global institutions of justice, and judges of Judge Jackson's level of humanity and wisdom, to help protect the world."

So .. there you are. "The planet is policed by a violent, arbitrary, stupid and dangerous force." And what would that force be? Why, the United States, of course! No mention of the threat of Islamic fascism. No mention of the violent, arbitrary and dangerous nature of flying airplanes into office buildings. In fact, Professor Frail puts scare quotes around his reference to the war on terror, so as to say that he doesn't really believe that there is any terrorism to be fought! Then he goes on to say that what we really need is some sort of an international court to protect the world from the United States.

Some historian. Perhaps he doesn't remember the role of the United States in saving his precious Europe from Hitler and Soviet expansionism.

Now none of Professor Historian's arrogance and seeming hatred of the United States .. and most certainly of George Bush .. would be a sufficient excuse for an Atlanta cop to throw him to the ground and arrest him for jaywalking; but you are left wondering just what this man said to the cop to provoke such an action. I think that we all know that a simple "I'm sorry, officer, I'll be more careful the next time" would have been more than sufficient. Clearly it escalated beyond that. Is it possible that the good professor used some of his "George Bush is Stupid, America is violent, dangerous and arbitrary" nonsense on the cop?

Yesterday I had to chose sides .. between a member of European academia and an Atlanta Cop. I chose the wrong side. For that I apologize. I should have known better.

Tico-

You are saying ...

... that the best policy is to show due deference to the uniform ...

... and you also put words into the man's mouth ...

...and might just as well have said "hey mister-I don't need your f******g help to get to the other side of the f****g street.

Now I am the first man to show due deference to a uniform but not when it's worn by a f*****g traffic warden.

A uniform signifies a wiilingness to put the wearer's life at risk however remotely and I am totally against them for barmaids for very obvious reasons.

Really? You think a uniform signifies a willingness to put one's life at risk? You think that applies to ALL uniforms? Parking ticket "ambassadors"? Road crew? Meter readers? Postal employees?

I thought you were on the right.

McTag wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENCa43r9jmY&mode=related&search=

Smorgie's quotes from youTube reminded me of an article in the paper this week, when an English academic on a conference in Atlanta was set upon by the local busies, for jaywalking.

He is shown filmed on this clip (there are three parts) after his release from jail.

If you stick with this interview, it is rewarding. I think LE will like it.

Neal Boortz on the English academic's article in the Atlanta newspaper:

Quote:

MY GOD! THE ARROGANCE!

Yesterday I opened my show -- a portion of my show that most of you don't hear -- with a bit of a rant about a story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It seems that a British historian was arrested for jaywalking in Atlanta. To make matters worse, he wasn't detained and "taken down," as it were, by a uniformed Atlanta police officer, but by an off-duty cop who was working as a security guard at a nearby hotel. At first my sympathies were with the Brit. After all, it's hard to forget the Atlanta woman who was body-slammed by a cop at the airport a few years ago. Now, after reading this column written by the historian, I'm ready to buy that cop/security guard some lunch.

The professor has this to say about our his experience as it relates to our country and our president:

"I have long known, as any reasonable person must, that the courts are the citizen's only protection against a rogue executive and rationally uncontrolled security forces. Though my own misadventure was trivial - and in perspective laughable - it resembles what is happening to the world in the era of George W. Bush. The planet is policed by a violent, arbitrary, stupid and dangerous force. Within the USA, the courts struggle to maintain individual rights under the bludgeons of the "war on terror," defending Guantanamo victims and striving to curb the excesses of the system. We need global institutions of justice, and judges of Judge Jackson's level of humanity and wisdom, to help protect the world."

So .. there you are. "The planet is policed by a violent, arbitrary, stupid and dangerous force." And what would that force be? Why, the United States, of course! No mention of the threat of Islamic fascism. No mention of the violent, arbitrary and dangerous nature of flying airplanes into office buildings. In fact, Professor Frail puts scare quotes around his reference to the war on terror, so as to say that he doesn't really believe that there is any terrorism to be fought! Then he goes on to say that what we really need is some sort of an international court to protect the world from the United States.

Some historian. Perhaps he doesn't remember the role of the United States in saving his precious Europe from Hitler and Soviet expansionism.

Now none of Professor Historian's arrogance and seeming hatred of the United States .. and most certainly of George Bush .. would be a sufficient excuse for an Atlanta cop to throw him to the ground and arrest him for jaywalking; but you are left wondering just what this man said to the cop to provoke such an action. I think that we all know that a simple "I'm sorry, officer, I'll be more careful the next time" would have been more than sufficient. Clearly it escalated beyond that. Is it possible that the good professor used some of his "George Bush is Stupid, America is violent, dangerous and arbitrary" nonsense on the cop?

Yesterday I had to chose sides .. between a member of European academia and an Atlanta Cop. I chose the wrong side. For that I apologize. I should have known better.

Funny accent? You mean you don't all sound like that? Right ... I think he was arrested for the accent alone.

I think what you may have missed in your quick skim of the article I posted, was that Boortz was initially sympathetic to his plight, but that changed after the guy felt the need to write-up the event for an article in the Atlanta newspaper the next day (LINK), wherein he expressed his anti-American views, and his belief that there needs to be a "global institution of justice" to protect the world from the US.

What an a$$.