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Liquid`Drone
Norway28848 Posts
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Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
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Bill307
Canada9103 Posts
On May 01 2005 10:09 Liquid`Drone wrote: they should rather have done nothing. protesting should always be legal. I guess there is more than one way to interpret defending the police's actions. In my case, I am trying to defend the police as people, which is who the topic creator seems to be attacking with the expression "Police Brutality". But I can't say that I agree with the university having the right to forcibly remove the protesters, which is what I think you are opposing. | ||
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TeCh)PsylO
United States3552 Posts
I am trying to defend the police as people I think everyone respects the police as individuals, it is police behavoir as a matter of policy and procedure that is the problem. My mother had a friend of for dinner a few years back, who use to be a correctional officer. He told a story about a time when he was visiting a police station(forget where). A rather large woman had been arrested and was being escorted through the station, when she began to get argumentitive and tried to resist. A group of police officers jumped on the situation to get her under control. My mothers friend said it was the most beautiful text book job he had seen so he asked for a video tape of it to review. He went home, poured a glass of bourbon and started watching the tape. He said when he watched the tape it was the most inhumane thing he had seen, so he quit and joined academia(he's now a criminal justice proff). Point being, cops have a job to do, but that doesn't mean there job is right. No one could doubt the necessity of police officers in any society, but that doesn't mean that we should not question the policies in which they operate. On a side note, people seem to think protesters should just shut up and go home, as if they did not have right to voice an opinion. Not only is the idea that people should not be voicing an opinion damaging to a healthy culture, ignoring the fact that protesters also have a choice to engage in less that peaceful demonstration is nothing short of stupid. In a time where people are using violence to make political statements, we punish those that use peace? | ||
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HeadBangaa
United States6512 Posts
On May 01 2005 10:38 TeCh)PsylO wrote: I think everyone respects the police as individuals. fuck the poh-leece | ||
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baal
10708 Posts
First of all, "private property" well thats stupid, its not like they are braking into your house, its the fucking university where you are paying lots of money, when you study, and when you have the fucking right to protest. Contract mmm.... yeah i guess if they put a chimp as a teacher you cant protest, if you dont like leave it... riiiiiiiiight, morons!. And if the police HAD to distrupt that protest they could easily just fucking use peper spray, they are not dangerous criminals which you have to neutralize them, you just have to scare them, its fucking stupid. And so are you ppl who claim about private property -_- | ||
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Chibi[OWNS]
United Kingdom10597 Posts
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baal
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baal
10708 Posts
Brutalize a protest so it goes to the news and the next day you have 10000 pissed off protestesrs outside of your university. way to go geniuses lol. | ||
suffeli
Finland772 Posts
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baal
10708 Posts
On May 01 2005 11:01 suffeli wrote: funny analogy in this thread: if you protest peacefully you're a hippy Well lots of them are hippy actually, look at them  | ||
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Clutch3
United States1344 Posts
On May 01 2005 09:54 Bill307 wrote: What should the police have done instead? They had to remove the students one way or another. A lot of people have made this argument. I might have missed something, but why did they have to remove the students one way or another? And the argument about signing a piece of paper is weak at best. First of all, it's highly unlikely such a piece of paper exists. I've been a student of five universities and never signed anything like it. Even if I had, can you imagine how legally thorny it would be to try to word a statement in a contract saying you "can't protest"? That clause in the contract could cover everything from me writing a letter to the school newspaper to me wearing a "Rage Against the Machine" t-shirt to me VOTING in a local election. In any case, it's a red herring. It's well known that all restaurants can refuse service to "anyone for any reason" and be within the law... yet if I work at Taco Bell and tell a black guy that "we don't serve niggers" I am definitely on the wrong side of the exchange. P.S. Thank God for Psylo and Drone coming in, I was starting to get scared for the future of the world. | ||
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Servolisk
United States5241 Posts
On April 30 2005 19:44 Excalibur_Z wrote: BRING IT ALL DOWN, MAN! FIGHT THE POWER!  Is there anyway this isn't trolling? A response like this to a thought out argument is inexcusable even for a five year old. It is to reading what "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation" is to movies, except with the intent to be stupid and malicious. | ||
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Clutch3
United States1344 Posts
On May 02 2005 02:46 Servolisk wrote: Is there anyway this isn't trolling? A response like this to a thought out argument is inexcusable even for a five year old. It is to reading what "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation" is to movies, except with the intent to be stupid and malicious.That's ok... I am used to it. Without Excal who would I have to provide fodder for arguments?  | ||
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Feuerbach
Germany95 Posts
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HeadBangaa
United States6512 Posts
On May 02 2005 10:38 Feuerbach wrote: where is your freedom now, Americans? Feuerbach Out No seriously, get out dumbass | ||
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baal
10708 Posts
On May 02 2005 10:38 Feuerbach wrote: where is your freedom now, Americans? i dont know, why dont we kill the jews to find out? :D | ||
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Feuerbach
Germany95 Posts
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