The Onion summed up the war debate rather nicely back in March 2003.

Actually, I think the “pro-war” argument left a few things out, such as:

- If you oppose the war, you’re a Saddam Hussein appeaser.

- If you oppose the war, you must be a leftwing socialist.

- If you oppose the war, you’re unpatriotic.

- It’s your right to oppose the war. But once the war starts and our troops are in harm’s way, you had best keep you anti-war opinions to yourself.

- Iraq…9/11…Iraq…9/11…Iraq…9/11…

“It’s a big concern for the officers to keep this guy out of traffic, to keep him from getting hurt,”

So, what? An ambulance, backer board and a stretcher didn’t cross anyone’s mind?!?

Let’s taze ‘em. Yeah, that’ll get ‘em on his feet and off the road right quick. God damn f….

see? can’t be coherent

The Nirvana baby is 17?!?! Shit, that makes me feel old.

I still have my cassette tape of that Nirvana album, purchased in the magical kingdom of Saud. The baby on that cover is wearing a white-out painted diaper. Yessir, can’t have any naked baby pee-pees showing… could excite someone. Didn’t know ’til I returned stateside for vacation that the baby was supposed to be naked. Oh, and Suzanne Vega is wearing black leggings and long sleeves in the liner notes to 99.9F.

Wow. That is a chilling statement and as the primary witnesses to what happened appear to be the officers themselves it may be impossible to disprove.

But now that I see it. there’s no way that was an accident.

Police say although there are several unanswered questions; the reason for the use of a stun gun is not one of them.

My favorite part.

I think GWB should be the poster child for standing firm.

I’m an optimistic kinda guy! I think a huge contributor to burn out is the ‘serve and collect’ mentality- it’s all about ticket revenue and ‘self-initiated arrests’… Our city recently put into service motorcycle cops- they’re supposed to fill a ticket book a day! and they’re doing just that…

‘On the other hand, I know for a fact that the officers who post over at ratemycop are 100% above board and honest to a fault. They assure me that except for 1% (of 800,000 officers), the rest of their brothers are just like them.’

it’s not corruption until they’re caught. ‘Testilying’ is an effective strategy to reduce crime, not lying under oath. ‘Ghost tickets’ is a way to ‘get’ someone who needed to be messed with, not writing fake tickets to abuse authority. Letting another officer off the hook is ‘professional courtesy’ not covering up a crime. Of course they’re 100% above board. They just don’t say which board they’re above…

If and when the time comes that someone tries to break in my house and rob/rape/attack someone, I won’t be calling the police. I’ll be chambering a round.

I wonder if those who would say such things (and they exist) realize that they’re openly admitting that they put personal interests above the law.

http://www.columbiatribune.com/2008/Jul/20080726News003.asp

The taser victim is hospitalized with critical condition.

This happened while Columbia was hotly debating a federal grant to purchase even more taser’s.

Just because police officers perform some necessary and beneficial functions within society, that does not excuse them from behaving like thugs.

If an E.R. surgeon saves the lives of several people who were in a bad car crash, that does not authorize him to go out and drunk drive all over town.

You don’t need to take the good with the bad.

Further, deponent sayeth not.

“Fine, next time your sister/mother/wife/dog is being robbed/raped/attacked we won’t come to help you, or we’ll take an extra long time getting there – take that lowly serf!”

or some variation of that for the millionth time.

“My speculation on what happened to the kid:

Police saw him walking alone on a busy highway, pulled over to question him, he didn’t want to be questioned by them, they tazered him, causing him to fall over the edge. They found him injured and tazered him some more.”

Sadly, that’s probably pretty close to the truth. Perhaps the quantity of tazings was an effort to stop his heart, to keep the boy from squealing on them, knowing full well that if the boy was dead they could make up any story they wanted and the Authoritarian types would just eat it up and say “Fukkin kid got what he deserved blah blah blah”.

Would explain why their story/coverup is in such disarray and reeks of bullshit. They were in a hurry to come up with something.

Police saw him walking alone on a busy highway, pulled over to question him, he didn’t want to be questioned by them, they tazered him, causing him to fall over the edge. They found him injured and tazered him some more.