In any of your quest for glory.....you missed the point. The point being that I said and have always said that if an "Occupy Wall Street" person or any person for that matter engages in an armed confrontation with police and is killed as a result, I would most likely believe that they had it coming absent other circumstances. In an armed confrontation with protestors, police have every right to use deadly force and should be given the benefit of the doubt in THOSE situations. Try again Rev.
Don't believe you would side with the police if for example the kid that went for the cops gun got shot.
not for one second.
Do you always pretend the poster isn't being correct and you just want to deflect? I missed where you scold the posters who used Ferguson and all in their knee jerk posts...
Your protestations would carry a bit of weight if you could ever be consistent... eace
So what did they do, hold a gun to the militant's head and force him to a make a video where he was advocating violence against government law enforcement?
I am sure everyone has heard about Bundy being arrested and one of his followers killed by law enforcement...How do you feel about it.
They didn't deserve death for that. But I'm assuming that since the guy has plainly said that he would never go to jail, and since the people in the vehicles that cooperated with the police were completely unharmed, he brought this on himself by acting stupidly. Hopefully there is footage to make sure that everything the cops did was 100% ok.
Deflection, imagine that... :roll:
Did any OWS protester show up armed and claim violence would happen? Did any OWS protester take over a FEDERAL building while openly displaying firearms and talking about violence?
The dead man wasn't shot at the wildlife reserve, he was shot attempting to run a easily identified LEO roadblock, bailing out and refusing to comply. He was known to be armed, many pics and videos showed his firearms to include a pistol rig... if he was an inner city youth and refused to comply... well many would say he got what he deserved... eace
Dunno. All I know is crooks and liars are not a source I would want to hitch my wagon to.
Its a source that I never read myself, but I would find it hard to believe that forged a video.
It depends. You are moving the goal posts now. If the kid had a weapon and reached for it or pointed it at the police and he was killed, absolutely I would side with the police. Police have every right to use deadly force when a clear threat to their own life is present.
If someone actually goes for the cops weapon and the evidence is clear that this actually occurred....and the perpetrator is shot and killed by the police, again....absolutely I would side with the police. In fact, I have told many a client that they are lucky that they aren't dead with some of the things that they have done.
If, however, the facts are not clear.....or it is clear that the cops are lying....then I think as a citizenry we have an obligation to question and investigate the police officer's conduct. I think TOO many times, we give the police a pass or at least give them the benefit of the doubt when we shouldn't...simply because people don't want to question the tactics of the police. That is probably where we differ.
So, Mike brown.
Whats your position, thug or victim?
Honestly, I don't even remember who Mike Brown is. Is that the guy where the cop claimed he was reaching inside of his vehicle and grabbing for his weapon? If that is the case....that is one where I would not give the cop the benefit of the doubt because I don't think that it is clear that his life was in jeopardy. Any cop can shoot someone and make the claim that the perpetrator was grabbing for his weapon. If there are credible witnesses that confirm the cops story...then I would give that a great deal of consideration. But any time you have an unarmed dead citizen, I think citizen's owe it to our system to question the use of force.
Now if the guy approached the cop with a weapon, lunged at the cop with a weapon or was reaching in his pocket or something like that.....that is a different situation entirely.
I thought forged videos were all the rage these days.
The d00d killed in feruguseon. /facepalm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown
Whats your position, thug or victim?
Oops; you have inadvertently omitted some content from Mr Bundy's statement which might possibly confuse the context_lets see now...everyone else pays taxes to use the roads and highways with a gas tax in every gallon of gas we buy but bundy should be able to use public land managed by our taxes for free correct? Bundy Quote: blacks are better off being slaves with a family then being on government welfare.... wow!!!! that says alot
I assume that most Civil Rights Protesters of the 60's were "law-abiding" citizens_A good old cowboy who went to another state to intimidate the government. If you don't feel like these are the last of these folks to do so, may I suggest you be next? Also, tell the forum when you're about to lash out like a good revolution that I can have time to record the entire matter and laugh about it when it comes to an end and you're either embarrassed like Bundy or dead like Lavoy. Hahaha, I'm just kidding about that last sentence. We all know an internet intellectual like you would never have the testicles (figuratively or literally) to do anything like what our young Bundy did.On what planet is Bundy "law abiding"? What a crock.Bundy is a leach, a welfare queen and an instigator of sedition. I just hope they throw his dad in jail too.
"fell victim" what absolute bilge.
They never actually used their weapons but simply carrying them which in and of itself, is not illegal in many western states_Bundy and his terrorist bunch of loons are violent offenders who used their weapons to occupy this building and made terrorist demands.No stranger that right wing gun lovers quickly denouncing the use of force by law enforcement officials.
I for one "feel bad for Bundy"______Why you ask?
Because Ammon Bundy was just an old cowboy trying to make a living that fell victim to an overly-intrusive and increasingly authoritarian government that's continuously testing the boundaries of its power!
He's not the only honest lawabiding citizen to be labeled a "criminal" during the transition of an ideo-political system_
In fact it's status quo for Capitalism to Socialism transition so Bundy definitely won't be the last in the coming days!
Were all the Ferguson protesters victims of police violence?! :wassat1:Good old cowboy? He doesn't even own one cow. He owns a trucking service that he got a government secured loan to run.
Were all the Ferguson protesters victims of police violence?! :wassat1:
Have you considered the possibility that your post is no less inconsequential to the issue than mine? :giggle1:I don't know, why don't you ask them?
I was responding to your post about Ammon Bundy, the trucking business owner from Idaho, that decided to take over a wildlife refuge in Oregon.
were all the ferguson protesters victims of police violence?! :wassat1:
Have you considered the possibility that your post is no less inconsequential to the issue than mine? :giggle1:
Oops; you have inadvertently omitted some content from Mr Bundy's statement which might possibly confuse the context_
Bundy said:
“I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,” he said. Mr. Bundy recalled driving past a public-housing project in North Las Vegas, “and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids — and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch — they didn’t have nothing to do. They didn’t have nothing for their kids to do. They didn’t have nothing for their young girls to do."
“And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he asked. “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/u...the-law-becoming-a-hero-in-the-west.html?_r=1
None the less; 67 year old Mr Bundy is definitely guilty of political incorrectness; a harmless fault common to most geezers_
And unless I'm mistaken, Barack Obama confirmed this in a statement concerning things his white grandmother had said_
True; but one must take into consideration that which I deflected_deflect!
I have yet to figure out exactly what: Ammon Bundy not being a cowboy, not owning a cow, owning a trucking service and securing a government loan; has to do with him and his group getting what they deserve?!I'm sorry if you feel that presenting facts is inconsequential.