Comments on: Another Isolated Incident? http://www.theagitator.com/2008/10/09/another-isolated-incident-23/ It rankles me when somebody tries to tell somebody what to do. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:55:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Stand On This at Ninth Stage http://www.theagitator.com/2008/10/09/another-isolated-incident-23/comment-page-1/#comment-189662 Stand On This at Ninth Stage Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:27:07 +0000 http://www.theagitator.com/?p=10782#comment-189662 [...] Not really the Dem’s platform rather it’s a shoplifter justifying her thefts. But you knew that. Via Balko. [...] [...] Not really the Dem’s platform rather it’s a shoplifter justifying her thefts. But you knew that. Via Balko. [...]

]]> By: Cynical In CA http://www.theagitator.com/2008/10/09/another-isolated-incident-23/comment-page-1/#comment-189503 Cynical In CA Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:30:29 +0000 http://www.theagitator.com/?p=10782#comment-189503 The profiled couple's statements weren't sworn under oath in a court of law, so of course they are lying. The police are always right and would never do such terrible things. /do I really need to? The profiled couple’s statements weren’t sworn under oath in a court of law, so of course they are lying. The police are always right and would never do such terrible things.

/do I really need to?

]]> By: Red Green http://www.theagitator.com/2008/10/09/another-isolated-incident-23/comment-page-1/#comment-189474 Red Green Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:12:39 +0000 http://www.theagitator.com/?p=10782#comment-189474 "just doing their job", isn't that the same excuse that was tried at Nuremberg, back in 1946? Yeah, most "cops" probably KNOW the phoniness of the "drugwar", but then , they just go for the gusto anyway.That would still make "them" guilty anyway, right? “just doing their job”, isn’t that the same excuse that was tried at Nuremberg, back in 1946? Yeah, most “cops” probably KNOW the phoniness of the “drugwar”, but then , they just go for the gusto anyway.That would still make “them” guilty anyway, right?

]]> By: Michael Chaney http://www.theagitator.com/2008/10/09/another-isolated-incident-23/comment-page-1/#comment-189361 Michael Chaney Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:21:40 +0000 http://www.theagitator.com/?p=10782#comment-189361 I was talking to a cop one day that I know. He agrees that the "drug war" is pointless. He said a lot of cops feel that way, too, but there's a general feeling of "what would we do then?" The fact is, getting rid of the drug war would allow us to dramatically cut the police forces, but lower taxes would quickly create jobs for them elsewhere. Jobs where they would actually be contributing to the GDP rather than leeching off the side of it... I was talking to a cop one day that I know. He agrees that the “drug war” is pointless. He said a lot of cops feel that way, too, but there’s a general feeling of “what would we do then?”

The fact is, getting rid of the drug war would allow us to dramatically cut the police forces, but lower taxes would quickly create jobs for them elsewhere. Jobs where they would actually be contributing to the GDP rather than leeching off the side of it…

]]> By: Billy Beck http://www.theagitator.com/2008/10/09/another-isolated-incident-23/comment-page-1/#comment-189237 Billy Beck Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:15:12 +0000 http://www.theagitator.com/?p=10782#comment-189237 Has it ever occurred to anyone that "law enforcement" is now an employment function of the welfare state and that a great deal of this sort of thing might just be busy-work? That's a very general conjecture, and I do not believe that anyone would ever dig up a memo or anything stating the thing that bluntly. However, when I consider things like "just doing their jobs" defenses of these animals and the general (and truly anti-American) cultural embrace of the non-idea that people have a right to a job, I really do begin to believe that this whole problem is a lot bigger in conceptual scope than anyone has ever really figured out. Has it ever occurred to anyone that “law enforcement” is now an employment function of the welfare state and that a great deal of this sort of thing might just be busy-work?

That’s a very general conjecture, and I do not believe that anyone would ever dig up a memo or anything stating the thing that bluntly. However, when I consider things like “just doing their jobs” defenses of these animals and the general (and truly anti-American) cultural embrace of the non-idea that people have a right to a job, I really do begin to believe that this whole problem is a lot bigger in conceptual scope than anyone has ever really figured out.

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