Arthur Brain
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It wasn't.
OMG. Seriously? You ripped me up one side and down the other for liking it. Not sure I'm gonna be able to forgive you for that.lain:
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High school newspaper exposes how state police quoted Adolf Hitler in training manual
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It wasn't.
:shocked:
annabenedetti
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Well, I'll take it under consideration....
Arthur Brain
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annabenedetti
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Arthur Brain
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Idolater
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I don't understand how you feeling this way, can be anything but very strongly Pro-Second Amendment then. It's literally irrational. Because you're right to perceive the slightest movement in police activity toward oppression, toward brutality, as extremely serious, in a nation like ours, where our rule of law is first of all defended by the police, and there's very little to nothing behind that. There's just, armed, and the better armed, the better, civilians. We are the last line of defense of the rule of law, if the worst case scenario ever occurs, even if only in dribs and drabs, here and there. Police swear allegiance to the Constitution. So do all our elected officials. If they then forget it or are tricked into breaking their oath, that can't just be the end of the world, or the end of this nation, or the end of the American story. We can stand up. Our founders put the means to do it right in the Constitution, and the preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights even alludes to this ultimate form of redress. All we have to do is treat that sacred right to keep and bear arms like the rights to free speech, religion, conscience, thought and homosexual marriage and indiscriminate abortions. We know how to do it, we just have to apply what we know to the basic human right to own and carry arms.
Without cell phones, there would have been no BLM, no arrest for the killers. Police unions are lobbying for laws preventing citizens from photographing police, for just that reason.
As a photographer, I've occasionally had police officers try to tell me that I couldn't photograph things, and I'm not talking about taping them or their behavior. Many of them are either lying or profoundly ignorant of the law WRT photography in public. Not too long ago, I had a policewoman question me because I was photographing the front of an airline terminal by passenger drop-off.
I pointed out that I had taken hundreds of shots of that airport over the years, and no one had bothered me before. She was a little defensive about it, citing terrorism.
I laughed and said "I know I don't have to do this, but would you feel safer if I showed you my ID?" She looked surprised, but said she would. So I did. She never wrote anything down, and walked away. If I made her feel a little foolish, then I did my duty as a citizen.
I have a co-worker who happens to be black. He was also my neighbor for years. Black parents have to give their sons "the talk" about how not to trigger racist police, to look non-threatening, and to try to deescalate things if they encounter one. He's always afraid for his older son, who is in his late teens.
I thought that woman who was assaulted by out-of-control cops and had her kid taken from her and put up on a police union website, was white. Am I wrong about that? Remember, if they can get away with doing it to black people, they will eventually move on to others.
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annabenedetti
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What an irrational response. Do you realize you sound unhinged?
Not only for your bizarre non-sequitur but also because you know he's not "the left." You know it.
Nevertheless:
Follow your own diktat.
annabenedetti
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Good post - and good photo, Barbarian.
Can't help but wonder if you'd have been able to diffuse the situation as easily if you'd been 'foreign-looking.'
I don't know if the woman driving the car was white. I couldn't see her in the mob of cops attacking her, I only saw the cop propaganda photo of her son.
ok doser
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you saw what they wanted you to see anna. You never saw the precipitating incident that caused the cops to swarm her car and break out the windows. You assume that there was no justifying precipitating incident, that the cops just went crazy, because you are willing to believe that.
ok doser
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I'm pretty sure if you did a survey of everybody except for you and a couple of your buddies here the general consensus would be that barbie is indeed a leftist.
And barbie's reveal of a longing to embarrass an authority figure - I can understand why you would be sympathetic to it. I hope that you can understand why I would be vigorously opposed to it.
ok doser
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Would "the left must be opposed" or "the left must be stopped" have sounded less unhinged to you?
annabenedetti
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I don't understand what you're trying to say.
Idolater
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"I don't understand how you feeling this way, can be anything but very strongly Pro-Second Amendment then. It's literally irrational."
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I don't understand how you, feeling this way, can be anything but very strongly Pro-Second Amendment then. It's literally irrational.
annabenedetti
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I am pro-second amendment. I own guns. I don't know why you're tying that to my posts about not trusting the police and then making a rationality judgment on it.
Idolater
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Great.
Contrast
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2010/7/4/881431/-
with the president-elect's
https://joebiden.com/gunsafety/
One should be a firm supporter of the 2nd Amendment for the same reason that one should support all of the Bill of Rights. You can't take away anyone's rights without endangering your own. Guns have been in the past, a plague on America, but that has been declining for some time. Regardless, the laws protecting our rights should be jealously guarded, and any attempt to encroach on them should be opposed.
Doesn't mean you get to scream "fire" in a crowded theater, or have unlimited access to heavy weapons; it's always a balance. But we should err on the side of freedom.
Doesn't mean you get to scream "fire" in a crowded theater, or have unlimited access to heavy weapons; it's always a balance. But we should err on the side of freedom.
annabenedetti
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I know. But I don't need approval, almost everyone in my family owns guns, from small revolvers to 9mm to the full gamut of long guns. It's not a big deal.
Sorry, no. Responsible gun control isn't taking away your guns or my guns, but I can't get into more than that even if I had the inclination. I simply don't have the time.
annabenedetti
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Agree. Well said.