pj wrote:Colin, I bet those cops that came to your aid, when you got your clock cleaned in Colorado weren't illegitimate. I would also bet that you were pretty damn glad to see those lads and lasses in blue then as you and the young woman who hit you were laid up on the roadside wondering what the hell just happened. I cannot find the write up of that, but I believe you spoke highly of the various emergency people who helped you.
Pj, pj, pj . . . pj. If you were a bona-fida participatin' member of this fine forum, and read ALL of my fun stories with pictures, you would have been privvy to so many instances of me having a fine time with cops, border patrols, DEA agents, you would have read of the long conversations I have shared with officers about their children, college expenses, their insurance plans, conversations about their bosses, conversations about why I was driving in my underwear at 121*, why I was waxing my seat pedestals at abandoned gas stations, but let's not go into it right here, let's answer your question:
If you READ of when I got my "clock cleaned in Colorado", you would have read how there were no police there until after I was carted away against my will, the fire chief and I had a good laugh the next morning because some young dumb cop yelled at the fire chief for tampering with a "crime scene" (I had asked him to get my wallet and laptop) because the cop thought my glovebox coffee in the ziplock bag was some exotic hash (remember the "Morning Wood Cafe"? Was his name Brandt? who gave me some his fine coffee grounds). The fire chief called him a hot-headed new-hire hard-on.
You don't have to lecture ME on what is fine or not fine about law enforcement, pj, I lived in New York City, I lived in Los Angeles California, I have been on the road for thirteen years in every metropolis in the nation, I interact with a greater diversity of police than anyone here. And whaddyaknow? I have never had a breakdown in communication with a police occifer, yet.
THAT SAID, I'm NOT stupid! I AM white, and I have been right on the fine line of watching cops size me up and I know exactly how and why interactions can go terribly terribly wrong. So thank-you, but I am not buying into any "lads and lasses in blue" TODAY. I can size up and sniff out psychological authoritarian
need in a whole lotta officers I have interacted with. I can play along because, fortunately, I am not a dispossessed bleak angry disenfranchised young black man who has been cut already by a thousand and one little cuts. I have been spared and released to continue my wandering VW bus day a thousand and one times because I am an articulate whitey with a nice looking car. see:
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pj wrote:
Are there bad cops? Yeah. so what, lets see what happens if you disband them. Wait don't have to wait and see, we need only to look at Ferguson and see what folks will do to their own friends and neighbors when anarchy rules the night.
Why would you veer from sensible to stupid? Who here is mentioned disbanding the police? Who here? Why set up a rhetorical roadblock? Why?
You think Ferguson is evidence of what people will do to their own friends and neighbors, is that what you perceive of Ferguson? Pj, I drove home during the Rodney King riots in L.A. I remember well what anarchy looks like. Ferguson had reasons, so did the Rodney King riots. The news did not pick up on what I saw with my own eyes, pj, the little white boy yuppies in their BMWs jumping into the electronics stores and coming out just as loaded up as the blacks were with TV sets and mobile phones. I was shocked, pj, shocked, I tell ya, I thought whiteys were so much better behaved than THAT.
not
Again and again again and again and again, again, we see blacks getting pasted and shot and killed (and
yesterday in Baltimore, an innocent black 25 year old man died after getting his spine severed in police custody! Yesterday.
Meanwhile, people like you do not mention the runamok whiteys who have burned buildings and city buses and flipped over patrol cars and destroyed stores, 30 arrests and 50 fires reported in one night, and how about 60,000 rioters that led to the death of a 21 year-old student? Oh, that's just "kids" having "fun" . . .
Denver 1998 Superbowl
San Francisco 2014 after winning against the Royals
Vancouver 2011 after losing the Stanley Cup
University of Kentucky 2012 defeated Louisville in the Final Four, with more than
Red Sox 2004 win
You should LOOK at what those people did to their own streets and they did not have any grievance or cause or nothing but dumb mob alcohol-fueled savagery, good lord, lay off your stereotypical horsepucky.
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