The Cellar

The Cellar (http://cellar.org/index.php)
-   Current Events (http://cellar.org/forumdisplay.php?f=4)
-   -   When Police Aren't Busy Protecting Citizens (http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=11455)

MaggieL 08-11-2006 02:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elspode
Wonder when that will happen again?

When something comparable happens, most likely. As opposed to the currently stylish faux nostalgia of the hippie-wannabee GenX-spawn.

Apparently it's not just the generals who are always perfectly prepared to fight the last war... :-)

Elspode 08-11-2006 03:10 PM

If only there was a smoking gun and a Deep Throat for the whole WMD scam. Where are Woodward and Bernstein when you need 'em?

barefoot serpent 08-11-2006 03:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glatt
Sorry, I thought it was obvious that I was being sarcastic. But you can never be sure.

maybe a link to ColbertNation in your sig would suffice?:D

barefoot serpent 08-11-2006 03:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elspode
If only there was a smoking gun and a Deep Throat for the whole WMD scam. Where are Woodward and Bernstein when you need 'em?

pretty please -- with a cherry on it

MaggieL 08-11-2006 03:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elspode
Where are Woodward and Bernstein when you need 'em?

There's an entire generation of journalists that want to be Woodward and Bernstein when they grow up.

So, as soon as that happens...:-)

xoxoxoBruce 08-12-2006 01:00 AM

These Florida cops are not atypical. Below the state police level I expect it, having seen it since my early teens, in many states.
If one of the local cops get a hardon for you, the whole force will make you're life unpleasant.

The only difference now is, people farther up the socio-economic scale are getting a taste of it.

the Supreme court says there is higher standards, more training, more professionalism. That's true, but the effect is they are more like marines and less like police.....shoot first and questions later. Collateral damage should not be in your local police lexicon. :(

Elspode 08-12-2006 01:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by barefoot serpent

That is hands down the best protest sign I have ever seen.

MaggieL 08-12-2006 06:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elspode
That is hands down the best protest sign I have ever seen.

Perhaps you never saw "Nodody can lick our Dick" during the Nixon administration, or "Lesbians {For/Against} Bush" more recently.

Trilby 08-12-2006 08:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
If one of the local cops get a hardon for you, the whole force will make you're life unpleasant.

Or, make your life very pleasant, indeed!

Elspode 08-12-2006 10:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MaggieL
Perhaps you never saw "Nodody can lick our Dick" during the Nixon administration, or "Lesbians {For/Against} Bush" more recently.

Nope. Wish I had, though. Would have saved me the trouble of making yet another superlative. :neutral:

Flint 08-12-2006 03:15 PM

I hope you bunch of freedom-haters realize that we are at war! Because of...something...to do with our boys overseas, it just isn't appropriate to criticize our government, because if you do: the terrorists have won. If I have to get shot with a barrage of rubber bullets, for no reason whatsoever, if that's what it takes to protect freedom and liberty, then as a good American citizen, I would be a hypocrite not to get down on my hands and knees and thank God that I am getting shot with a barrage of rubber bullets for no reason whatsoever in America, the land of the free, the home of the brave! I feel sickened at these protesting traitors who want to destroy our way of life.

capnhowdy 08-12-2006 05:10 PM

Most logical solution to this 'problem' : Build a much more substantial protest sign. Have "Mythbusters" check it out for you.

Flint 08-12-2006 06:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by capnhowdy
this 'problem'

Care to elaborate on those ironic quotations? Or, do you prefer to let your punctuation do the talking for you?

JayMcGee 08-12-2006 07:12 PM

I though this was current event?


the dateline on the news-story is Nov. 2003

xoxoxoBruce 08-12-2006 07:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elspode
That is hands down the best protest sign I have ever seen.

Yeah, the best since "Dick Nixon before Nixon Dicks you" ;)


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 01:12 AM.

Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.8.1
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.