Because that’s what this all boils down to. It all about adults forgetting what it was like to be an adolescent. And wanting power over anyone they can.

And people are too afraid to do anything about it, which is a symptom of being told to fear everything.

I believe that in my lifetime this country will fall.

House Bill 2537 criminalizes the uploading of nude images or video of another person without their consent and with the intent to harm their reputation. So if some drunk adult flashes in bar, and you upload a photo or video without their permission, you could be arrested.

“Sorry about being acerbic. How much more acerbic could one be than bambam (sorry #32 dave) calling the cop “brilliant” then going on to make such statements that appear to not represent what was said in the article? I like your your response, though. It makes us look real intelligent when we use big words, doesn’t it? Your response, almost, feels like condescension.”

How much more acerbic could one be? I will refer you to your posts #32 and #61 as exemplars. As for the “big[ness]” of words, I would point out that “condescension” contains 13 letters, making it “big[ger]” than any I previously used. Beyond this, I find it very telling that you would find any of the terms in my post to merit any comment. We “real intelligent” people use such terms without any second thought or even the slightest bit of self-consciousness, and it simply never occurs to us that another might find them at all stilted or otherwise remarkable.

Sorry about being acerbic. How much more acerbic could one be than bambam (sorry #32 dave) calling the cop “brilliant” then going on to make such statements that appear to not represent what was said in the article? I like your your response, though. It makes us look real intelligent when we use big words, doesn’t it? Your response, almost, feels like condescension.

This was far from the BART incident! Why even compare the two?

Police beat man to death at sobriety checkpoint. He was a passenger.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2010/01/30/ma.police.beating.death.cnn?hpt=T2

In a similar vein, the Feds can now charge you with doing things outside the United States which do not violate the local laws but are illegal in the U.S.

They can also charge you with doing things that are not illegal in the U.S. but violate foreign laws.

I think your tone is a bit too acerbic here. I don’t find BamBam to be making an attack on the officer involved, snide or otherwise. I believe BamBam was merely voicing his frustration with the non-rebuttable presumption and non-falsifiable hypothesis that cops are always to be hailed as heroes, no matter what they may do. Regardless of whether cops are corrupt, vicious, venal, abusive, incompetent, or (as in this case) all too fallibly human, it is demanded that we mere plebes revere them as heroic icons. I object to this as strongly as BamBam does, even though my heart does go out to this obviously well-intentioned officer.

Riddle me this: if one is ablaze, how could it possibly increase one’s pain to be doused with pepper spray?

Interestingly, if the pepper spray were an accelerant, her actions would have been more merciful than if she had used a fire extinguisher.

(If it was a teacher and and a kid, sure, different story…)

The police here certainly have “expressed concern”, about sexting…in the context of bullying.

“How sleazy – the school interrogates the kids with cop “standing by as a safety agent” so he gets to listen in to the kids’ confession. That would give them probable cause for a search warrant for the phones, so it doesn’t matter that the parents consented to the search.
Please, teach your children: don’t talk to cops, don’t talk to anyone when they are around.”

I could not agree with you more. A colleague of mine has developed quite a nifty little rhyme to drum that very point home to his clients: “Don’t talk to the Man, or it’s your butt in the Can!”

I am not a cop, never been one. And, I think there is a new police state, with much of the witnessed behavior on the Internet.

But, I believe that cops are not trained firemen. Firemen might make a mistake like this, under a similar situation. The people admitted a mistake was made. I was not under the impression that they were denying anything. Accuracy, would be much more appreciated.

Your snide comment was obviously pointing out, either your ignorance, or the fact that you don’t give a damn that an honest mistake was made. Did you see the picture of the canister? It looks just like a fire extinguisher. Good thing it was not something flammable. These types of mistakes are addressed in hospitals every day!. They are constantly changing labels and locations of certain medications to try to keep us from making any, human, mistakes.

I believe in pointing out intentional police misbehavior, when it occurs. This is not the case, here. It was damn honest mistake. Why abuse one of the victims of the mistake? I am sure I would have felt great if I did something like that to a person on fire!

Do you demand perfection? I know that I am not perfect. Neither was the cop! I can forgive the mistake.

And, as a doctor, I was sometimes heralded as a hero. We are not! Just like the policeman and firemen, we are just doing the job we have been trained to do. I don’t see it as a fault of the policeman that his/her superior though the actions were heroic. Fact is, there are not that many, true, heroes out there!

Think, I say, THINK, that is, not run around like a flock of headless chickens and pass laws that you could drive a fleet of Hummers through.

“I’m in agreement with most of what’s being said here, but, I have to wonder about one thing. Say you have two 14 or 15 year olds taking video and pictures of themselves having sex and then they post the video and pictures on a pay per view website. What do you do now?”

In a free, healthy society, we would do absolutely nothing. It would not even occur to us that something should be done about it.

“…heroes in *costumes*.”

Such things are dictated by what arbitrary line on a map enslaves you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent

Note the legend: the age of consent in some places is *9* years old.