'American' way of life

photographyisnotacrime.com is a horrible way ro prove a point... I only got through the 1st 3 video's and they were all complete crap.
1 - a cop that was ALREADY SUSPENDED for mental issues was ARRESTED for assaulting a repo man.
2- A woman videoed a man being beat, but it was not in the video.
3- A kid got suspended for videoing during school (i think a good rule)

Couldn't watch anymore... Like many said. There are a$$holes in every profession, not just law enforcement. They are everywhere

 

100%.

I'm a staunch libertarian. The only interpretation of the constitution for me, is the literal interpretation. The thin blue line mentality, operating with impunity and zero accountability, has quite literally turned seeing blue lights into a scary prospect. Having this union lawyer shield around them doesn't help either. Shoot someone on a no knock search, mistaken identity, slap on the wrist and a 3 week paid vaca to keep you out of camera view.

It's a brave new world my man. Scary times indeed. When police look like SF units and start declaring first amendment zones (whoops too late)....well needless to say the Orwellian model is manifesting itself right on schedule.

If you think where you are from is bad, check out Massachusetts. Cops here look like they are about to invade Poland.

 

wow, that was like wading through cement

gather your thoughts and state your point son

 

I'll say it in this thread too. F u ck you, hippy. Go smoke some dope and walk around stoned, and whine about the MAN . Fuc King hippy.

You are so fuc King stupid you don't even know when you are contradicting yourself...in the same sentence. You don't even wait to come full circle in he next paragraph. Idiot, go smoke some more weed.

 

Yeah, way to prove your point...ummm. Its tough to actually say something valid and pertinent when theres an opposing viewpoint i know, but c'mon you can do better than this. Why does everything go to name calling and obscenities? You know thats a definitive sign of lack of intelligence.

And MIS, soldiers HAVE to be sociopaths. Thats what boot camp is for. Its proven science. Its to train them to be able to kill people and "not" have issues with it. Thats why theres so many issues when soldiers return from combat. THey train them to be sociopathic killers, yet not how to return to a place they cant get away with that mentality. So instead they give them badges and guns and authority and you see what happens.

 

this is the only point i'm going to address, b/c i feel you're STILL missing the point. as someone else mentioned in the other thread, almost no one joins the military w/ the express goal of killing another person (i say almost b/c, unfortunately, there prob. are a few). when you make statements like the above & the ones you made in the previous thread, you ignore the human toll that these wars take upon the american population. that makes you no better than those you condemn for pushing for & starting the wars. you're ignoring or forgetting the fact that these are actual people. fathers & mothers, husbands & wives, brothers & sisters, sons & daughters. you're ignoring all of that. & not all of them had a choice, not if they wanted to better their lot in life. my father is the son of a coal miner & a nurse/hotelier. he joined, via ROTC, & went to vietnam, so that he could afford a college education. he's now been a coastal geologist & teacher for more than 40 years. my good friend, whom i referenced in the other thread, joined the reserve while in high school. again, so that he could afford a college education. he had to take a leave of absence from his job as a special ed teacher at a special services school in order to do his tour in iraq. neither of these men, both of whom i respect greatly for reasons unrelated to their military service, ever wanted to kill. hell, the stories my friend told while drunk at his bachelor party, 2 years after returning home, gave me nightmares. most of what my dad did is still classified, but i can't imagine it's any better for the psyche.
these are genuine, actual, living, breathing people. you might pass them on the street or live next door to them. to trash someone b/c they're trying to do something to help other humans & rehabilitate them & minimize the impact of the wounds they carry, both visible & not, makes you no better than those who rattle sabers & push for conflict. it's like blaming teachers for the ****ty state of education b/c they chose to be educators...they're just trying to do a job, it's the policy makers who are really to blame. would you expect teachers to not enter their classrooms & teach? of course not.
in short, yea, the foreign policy of the usa is completely ****ed up. but to blame the soldiers is equally as ****ed up & ignores the human cost of these misguided wars of adventure. ANYONE who ignores the human element, for any reason, is reprehensible.

 

I hope i didnt sound like i was speaking bad upon soldiers. Cause i agree with you 100%. For a certain class of american there is not much option for after high school. Either you go into ridiculous debt to go to college, you start your life in a crappy, unrewarding job with no real future just to get by, or you join the military to assist in your pursuit of a college education.

 

Yeah for the record, libertarians are largely anti war, but we are not pacifists by any stretch of the imagination (we like guns more than the GOP).

I'm not crazy about war, but I'm all for a response if need be. Despite my reservations about war in general, I support our troops no matter what. Those guys and gals didn't make the policies.
Afghanistan, I understand. It was a response.
The poor guys and gals that ended up in the sandbox (2 good friends on mine, one a ranger) ended up there for god knows what reason.

We interfere way too much. Isolationist policy with a free open trade policy with the world would do us a lot of good. We were like that the majority of our history. We didn't play world police. We sold guns and ammo to both sides, and never made any enemies in the process. Again, if someone messes with us, turn them into a glass parking lot. I'm all for it. Start playing with governments and people, now you're talking globalist chess. IMO, DC is using American lives for political gain and international posturing. You can't use lives as pawns in the game of globalism. Let the UN and those whacked Leftists in Europe play that game. We need to go back to our non intervention "sleeping giant" strategy. We have a blue water navy capable of leveling every single country on the planet in 30 minutes or less, and god knows what else we don't know about. We don't need to bluff, we don't even need to sit at the card table.

My policy: make everyone money, and nobody will hate you.

 

The American way is a communication problem.

Passivity is the American way.

 

So smoking weed makes somebody a whiner who has a low level of intelligence. Brilliant.

 

If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.
Dalai Lama XIV



A more peaceful, logical, and wise man, does not walk the earth. If he says it, it's valuable. Pacifism is the excuse of the coward when the right deed involves something that may put themselves at risk. Doesn't change that there is a high road...there's always a high road. That being said, the high road isn't necessarily non-violence, as the wisest of all men stated above.

Nature is violent. There is no creation without destruction. There is no avoiding this fact.

 

This tread is beyond my threshold of political effort. Plus, yous guys are using all sorts of big words and that's not how I roll.

 

whoa - now i miss the poopy thread. two things about this weighty issue:
!) cops in my town out-of-control d-bags: not sure why but salaries and pensions have something to
do with it.
2) one of the reasons I REALLY LIKE OBAMA (really) is that he drew down two wars; as such somebodys'
baby came home who otherwise might not have.

 

What if that foreign person is armed with an AK and an RPG and shooting at you while you are trying to provide their fellow country men/women with food and aid?

You sound like a real douche buddy.

 

DEMOCRACY RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME, D.R.E.A.M, get the money- dolla dolla bill yall

War won't end because it is profitable to huge companies and greedy men. The economic status of many makes it appealing to join the military, and they get suckered in. Those that join for no other reason other then good ol' patriotism most likely have had a family member served or have watched too many movies.

I understand there are bad people in the world, I understand that at times we NEEDED to fight (American revolution, WW's). But what the hell are we doing now? In these foreign lands, using drones, killing innocent people, spying, all in the name of what? Imagine if all the troops of all the nations dropped their weapons and picked up shovels and hammers to rebuild this broken world.

No one is protecting our freedom anymore, that's an illusion. If what the "terrorist" were trying to achieve on 9/11 was to "take away our freedom" then "they" already won.