09-16-2016, 12:33 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-16-2016, 12:35 PM by Eric the Green.)
(09-16-2016, 10:20 AM)Anthony 58 Wrote: But don't be so down on tort reform. It is actually the Fourth Turning solution to the Third Turning problem being highlighted by Black Lives Matter: The reason cops almost never "knee-cap" non-gun-wielding black suspects is because they fear that there would be lawsuits against both the individual police officer and the department as a whole if they did.
Tort reform would solve this problem - and just a couple of nights ago in the Bronx, a white police officer actually did "knee-cap" a knife-wielding, mentally-ill Hispanic subject; and a couple of weeks ago I saw a re-run of the '90s TV series Real Stories of the Highway Patrol in which a white Florida state trooper "knee-capped" a knife-wielding white suspect.
So Colin Kaepernick et al should be going to their state capitols to lobby for said tort reform, instead of engaging in behavior that scores of millions of older conservatives and national liberals conflate with advocating the violent overthrow of the government.
No, tort reform usually means making it harder for citizens to sue businesses that misbehave. I don't know of a movement to make it EASIER for citizens to sue cops, but I'm sure it's something black lives matter would agree with. But not standing during the national anthem is the right of a citizen in a free country. If everyone must stand and salute, that's Nazi Germany. And why must the anthem be played at every ballgame? What a bore! America has nothing to do with ball games, beyond the obvious similarity of "rooting" for the home teams, whether your country or your town. Real Americans demand that the government treat its citizens with respect and care. Standing when an anthem is played doesn't accomplish this at all. Again, I refer you to Martin Luther King Jr. I guess you didn't watch the first time I posted it. It takes you a long time to get something.
So, listen up pal!