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On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 4:20:45 PM UTC-5, archytas wrote: > > Much is fit only for ridicule Gabby. As for the positive pounding, my > best friend likes those loud Japanese drums as a prelude to a few beers. > Quite how we get to sense talk instead of newsroom madness has troubled me > forever, as I'm sure you know. > > I'd have been expected to take Michael Brown down unarmed - something of a > mismatch at 168 versus 290 pounds and a routine Salford Saturday night. I > guess I could have run away until the pink slime and doughnuts tired him > out and I could get a tow-truck to transport him to the Crescent. Even > armed I tended not to shoot people, fearing weeks of paper work more than > the odd knife graze. Quite why cops were supposed to put their bodies on > the line instead of just shooting bad guys I'm not sure. > > I don't get the race thing at all, here or in the US other than as Tony > says. Smacking a cop in the mouth seems pretty 'racist' to me. The US > situation looks a lot like Northern Ireland to me - the Catholics had > genuine civil rights issues there on housing, jobs and lousy treatment. > These were not addressed directly either. The investigation into Wilson's > actions look reasonable and speedy compared with here and much more open. > This seems to no avail. > > One very noticeable thing in the US investigations is knowledge of the > limitations of cops accounts of their shootings on such as the number of > rounds fired and recall ability. Here our cops are taught to parrot the > Manual of Guidance on the care with which each shot is aimed and fired with > perfect memory. And our cops are allowed to refuse to answer questions and > collude on answers. Thus our cops lie to make their stories look like the > textbook and match each other. I don't get the logic of 'black guy dead, > burn Tottenham or Ferguson'. Or that of 'the Establishment is corrupt, > cure this by lynching a cop who has shot a crook'. > > On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 3:34:07 PM UTC, facilitator wrote: >> >> The media consistently wanted this to be about race. It wasn't. Change >> the demographics of either the cop or the deceased and this story would not >> have been in the news at all. The problem is the premiss. Our system >> allows a Grand Jury to decide if charges are to be rendered. >> >> I have been on two Grand Juries and we all took these matters very >> seriously. >> > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
