Occupy movement magnet for violence.

Why don't you do some self-reflection and get back to me later. Your knee-jerk attacks just prove my point. You do have a love of confrontation.

 

There's a difference imo between confrontation and just being... Never mind.

 

In your opinion. Until you back up these suppositions with facts and statistics, that's all you have.

 

Look at what this policeman is doing around the world since he has been suspended. He must be stopped.


http://digitallife.today.msnbc.msn....c-davis-cop-pepper-sprays-famous-works-of-art

 

(grins mischieviously)... can you back that comment up with facts and stats?...

...(runs like Hell)...

 

Nah, clearly self defense. You can see the fear in his eyes. Well not really because they're kind of covered by the Nazi helmet, but I'm sure it's there. I'll bet she was going for mini grenade or maybe a cleverly concealed Glock 33.

 

That's flea spray.

 

Flea spray is by nature toxic and should never be inhaled or sprayed directly into a persons face

 

I stand by my statement and all you have to do is count the number of protesters that have been hospitalized verses the number of policemen that have been hospitalized. You can choose not to do that if you wish but that doesn't change the facts of the situation nor does calling it my opinion change the facts. That's not an argument. It's more like a line in the sand that you refuse to cross.

 

Nah, don't see that happening, Kreskin:

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/...pinion-turning-against-occupy-wall-street.php

 

What on earth makes you think that is is remotely acceptable to have even one policeman hospitalized? Policemen can and should take the measures necessary to minimize/eliminate the possibility of injuring themselves. If that mean someone else gets injured, that is the cost of the protestors' actions.

 

No police should be hurt period. However, why is it that the government is so quick to sic the cops on the protestors and state how they are costing us millions of dollars in police, which really are not needed in the way they were used, while the govenment allowed criminals in thousand dollar suits steal trillions from the nation and instead of putting them in jail allowed them to give themselves bonuses.

 

True enough. But why would that matter to a cop? Or a Republican?

 

When you have nothing else, question their personal hygiene.

 

It could possibly have something to do with who is calling the shots. Those who guessed it was the protestors would be wrong. For now.

 

The gist of your argument seems to be that policemen should be able to use whatever force they think is acceptable. If I am walking down the road and a policemen starts beating me because he thinks I am a threat should I just let him. I guess the policeman who slammed an elderly man to the ground inside a store for seeing him hide a game from other customers was justified. How about the policeman in North Carolina who randomly pepper sprayed a crowd was justified in his actions, too. Sometimes the police do bad things, too. Where do you draw the line at defending police action and calling it a crime?
I guess that police officers repeatedly striking peaceful protesters with batons is OK with you.



I personally think you are suffering from years of programming that says police=good and military=good just by being who they are. It doesn't work that way.

 

Yep! Breaking the laws = BAD. Defying policeman's orders = BAD. Guess what happens to you. The last I checked, this was a nations of laws that are expected to be obeyed. You may disobey them if you so desire, but when there are no consequences for disobeying them, we will no longer have a country.

 

You will obey the police, and you will ask no questions. And if you don't obey the police you deserve whatever you get. That's the American spirit, isn't it?

 

And if you didn't deserve what you got, then you have recourse to sue. Sorry, I'm all for peaceful civil disobedience--but--if you are going to be disobedient then you need to expect to reap the consequences of that disobedience. That particular rule has nothing to do with the police and everything to do with the law of cause and effect.

 

If you are exercising your constitutional right and the police don't like it, they should be able to beat you. RW'ers are enamored with authority figures aren't they?
As was already pointed out, there was no mass crackdown of the Tea Party rallies even though there were guns openly flaunted, hell, a bunch of gun toting nuts marched towards the Washington DC outskirts before they ended their rally and nobody showed up to beat them. Why do you suppose the powers that be find the OWS people so much more threatening than people marching around with guns? Surely a group of people marching around with guns poses a far greater threat to the public than a group of people with signs and tents. I think the reason is pretty clear. What is actually being threatened here in a very deliberate way by the OWS group is the money interests while the Tea Party unknowingly supported those money interests by directing their protest against the government. I think that is the best indication that the OWS people are right on target.