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  1. 1

    …Makes the whole world blind.

  2. 2

    I’m surprised he just didn’t take out his gun from his holster and start shooting people with real bullets, would have made his wife real proud. What else would you expect from a heterosexual? The straights love to have fun and family values.

  3. 3

    I was just reading, over at Digby’s place, Dennis Harley’s review of The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 here. Most excellent.

    For a good Sunday sermon, be sure to watch the video of Cornall West at the end.

    That Cornell West rant was part of a retrospective and discussion of the Attica riots 40 years later. Video of that event is here. Watch it.

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    Yeah, Bologna is a real tough guy, pepper spraying confined, unarmed civilians and walking away. Probably tore the wings off butterflies as a kid.

    That’s the problem with police – while there are certainly good and honest people striving to do good in a very difficult job – WAY too many are drawn to the power and ability to fuck with their fellow citizens with impunity. The whole notion of carrying a gun and being above accountability in all but the most egregious situations.

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    The New York police are doing far more to draw public attention to the Wall Street protests than the protesters ever could have done by themselves.

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    The protesters on Wall Street are being portrayed in the media and especially on Fox as some sort of small group of really wacky nutjobs who are against Big Business for some unknowable reason.

    If one were to return police brutality in kind (which is most definitely within the capabilities of the citizenry of this country) the hue, cry, and bleating from the police would be a wonder to behold.

    “You’re gonna get what’s coming
    You’ve been asking for it two days running
    You’re gonna get what’s coming
    You’re gonna get what’s coming to you”
    Robert Palmer

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    @7 “If one were to return police brutality in kind …”

    That’s exactly what’s happening in Syria now, where nonviolent protest against a brutal dictatorship has turned into revolution. In Homs, Syria’s third largest city, protesters are no longer passively allowing the dictator’s police to bully, assault, and kill them. They have started shooting back, and government informers are being assassinated.

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    @7 and @9 – Violence isn’t the answer, become a homo, you will see that you don’t need to be violent to counter offense. Eye for an Eye attitude doesn’t solve anything, it might feel good, but no good comes from it. Where is god when we need him? I’ve never been to a gay pride event, but I hear they are a lot of fun, and no one gets violent.

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    @10 “you don’t need to be violent to counter offense”

    Tell that to six million dead Jews.

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    Most people are missing the real significance of the police brutality in New York. What it really means is that any national political aspirations that Michael Bloomberg ever had are over. This is the New York Police Department. As mayor of New York, he’s ultimately responsible for what the city’s police do to its citizens. Bloomberg recently has been talking up the drop in crime rates. Whatever mileage he got from that just crumbled in his hands like a stale cookie.

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    @11 – to the point of post #1, then eventually no one would be left in this world. Someone has to break the cycle.

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    @13 There’s a difference between instigating violence and self-defense. The latter has been recognized as legitimate by virtually all societies throughout recorded human history.

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    An eye for an eye looks pretty good when compared to:

    Romans kill Jesus, Christian revenge takes millions of Jewish lives.

    Indians defend their land in South Carolina, Andrew Jackson leads the Christians to kill millions of Cherokee.

    El Qaeda takes out 3,000 Americans, GW Bush takes his Christian revenge on several hundred thousand Iraquis.

    and so it goes, and so it goes.

    I am what am.

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    @18 – there is a difference between self defense and retaliation, the later can be mistaken as self defense.

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    @19 – Thank You God. When you going to show up for good? Puddynutz is waiting for you.

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    @14 That’s a pithy question that brings up a subject deserving closer examination than it gets from decision makers, media, or public.

    History teaches us that most wars are ineffective. Wars hardly ever accomplish their stated aims, typically go off the rails very quickly, and habitually bite their instigators in the ass.

    Napoleon lost. The Confederates lost. The Germans lost twice. The Japanese lost. The Chinese were pushed back in Korea. French and American armies were driven out of Vietnam. The Soviets were evicted from Afghanistan. Saddam Hussein’s invasions of Iran and Kuwait were defeated. Bush got humiliated in Iraq. And so on.

    Basing policy on military force has such an abysmal track record of failure one wonders why anyone still resorts to it.

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    @22 And you’re sure no gay has ever killed his partner? I don’t think this is an orientation problem, it seems to be more of a human nature problem. Rabbits don’t do this sort of thing. All we do is rip off patches of fur and gouge each other’s eyes out after a long winter of being cooped up in the same burrow.

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    Gleman,
    those years of your flaming pops diddling you sure have warped your world view….I suggest counseling before you start parking your van at the playground searching for boys…..

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    @22 & @27 – No, I’m sure it has happened, everything has happened at least once. But you are missing the point, that it happens every day with heterosexuals, you are more violent individuals. Gay people aren’t running around killing, raping and beating people up like heterosexuals. Who are the bullies, the gay people? Own it.

    @27 – you are not worth replying to but….yeah, all child molesters are gay men. no heterosexuals are raping and molesting kids or abusing kids. Again, Own it.

    Are women or men more prone to violence? I’m not saying you will not find any violent women, you will, but who is more prone to violence, men or woman? Fags are more like woman, right? Right.

  30. 30

    “”The world’s economy has been wrecked by these rapacious traders. Yet it is the protesters who are jailed.”

    Salman Rushdie

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    After seeing America’s Mayor Rudy Giuliani in drag Balogna’s “eye” was offended but like a good right winger instead of plucking his own eye he has compensated by pepper-spraying the eyes of those he hates.

    Just psych 101 projection.

    I hope you all followed that.

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    @31 – in other words, conservatives are a bunch of closeted gay people that are having a tough time coming out of the closet.

  33. 33

    An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth leads to the need for a lot of glass eyes and partial dentures!

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    @31 & 32,

    I saw a recent special about the end of DADT on HBO. John McCain behaved attrociously when Admiral Mullen testified that he thought gays serving in the military was OK. After all, gays have always been in the US military. Admiral Mullen was just recognizing reality. McCain on the other hand, is living in another era. In my last post of this subject, I suggested McCain take his Navy pension, his Senate pension, and his wife’s fortune and just retire to Arizona and live comfortably. I add to that now that he should just go home and shut up.

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    @21 Gman

    For good or bad, I have shown up here.

    Puddy seems to be an unbeliever.

    That is his choice.

    I am what am.

  37. 37

    @30. Michael

    “”The world’s economy has been wrecked by these rapacious traders. Yet it is the protesters who are jailed.”

    Salman Rushdie

    One of my favorite creations, as chosen as it comes! I recommend reading Rushdie to all who do not believe in Me.

    I am what am.

  38. 38

    The question the demonstators in New York (and possibly elsewhere) have to wrestle with is: Are the police being police, or are they being soldiers? If the former, the principle we’re all told to follow is to under any and all circumstances obey commands from a police officer–it’s his job to maintain the peace and apprehend criminal suspects for subsequent determination of guilt or innocence in court.

    If on the other hand, the police have been ordered to be soldiers and you have been declared to be the enemy (or they’ve made that decision on their own), it’s entirely another story. Then, it’s not an unreasonable assumption that they will hurt you, deprive you of your rights or even kill you even if you co-operate, and how you choose to defend yourself under such a circumstance might fall outside the code of behavior for “law abiding citizens”. If this is what indeed is going on, this is more than a political demonstration. It’s quite possibly the initial skirmish of a civil war.

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    PI@34

    So, I was in the USN same time as John McCain.

    My CO was openly and, actually flagrantly, obnoxiously, stick it in your eye .. gay.

    Funny thing, no one respected him … not because the Capt. was gay but because he was very, very stupid.

    Oh yeh, there were other gays, men and women. I never remember anyone caring except when we discussed ways to get out early.

    Without any attempt to be snarky, I wonder if McCain had problems with his sexuality while kep in solitary in Hanoi? What does happen to sex in a fetid prison camp?

  43. 43

    @42 I actually saw McCain’s dad in Vietnam. He came to my unit one day. Was CINCPAC (Commander in Chief, Pacific) at the time.

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    Civil rights in the U.S. is still, after all of this time, more of a theoretical affair than something real upon which the citizenry can act.

    Maybe what we need is more of a French type revolution here.

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