The Partisan Divide on Issues

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(06-15-2020, 04:21 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(06-15-2020, 03:35 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(06-15-2020, 03:23 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I prefer to see the ENTIRE tape and be presented all that facts before I way in on the situation with George Floyd.

Gee.  I thought you were fact free.  You just did your worldview scattered with violent daydreams, not deal in facts.  But that tape has been on record and widely interpreted for several weeks now.  Judging from the response, the people are not waiting for you to interpret the facts and form your opinion.  That is no way to get anywhere.

I dunno, the stuff that I watched your folks do in Minneapolis and St Paul and other blue cities looked pretty violent. I think we may have to pass a bunch of laws that makes it legal to shoot your folks on sight and agree to pay more taxes to beef up our police forces. I mean, if we can't rely on liberals or Democrats to control their on shit then we are going have to adjust by doing the opposite. We may even have to establish borders and form mew states.

Do you want a good metaphor for violence?

Quote: If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

George Orwell

http://www.brainyquote.com/authors/george-orwell-quotes

So George Floyd endured having a boot or a knee 'stomping' on his throat for 'only' nine minutes -- enough, of course, to suffocate him. That too is violence from people that we expect to use violence against us only if we are ourselves violent. Sure, pull a gun on a cop and expect to die.  Sure, try winning a fist-fight with a cop and you might feel a taser. I would never challenge the K-9 unit, would you? 

To be sure, exceptional misconduct of government, business, and criminals can lead to excessive responses. It's time for a reasoned discourse on how the police are to behave. Bad cops need be fired; as it is with accountants, those lax enough about financial controls to make an embezzlement possible are worthless. Pointless police brutality steals something far worse than money -- people's lives.

If this discourse isn't held in Minneapolis then it will be held somewhere else. I won't say where. If you want any specific predictions... Eric does astrology. I don't.

There are places with brutal, reckless police forces swift to shoot people who seem like bad guys. I'm not naming any countries... but you do not want to live in such places. If I must choose between a mugger and Tontons Macoutes or the Gestapo, then I will take the mugger as an enemy and the cops and the legal system as an enforcer against robbery. 

OK, black parents are often having a conversation with their kids. Make sure to be deferential to cops, especially white cops, because they don't understand you... even if you are an angel. If you are playing cowboys and Indians and you see a cop car... then drop your toy guns then and there.