Gruesome. On Wednesday, November 26, 2014 12:46:10 AM UTC, Molly wrote: > > This Craig's List ad trumps any absurd Ferguson observation made so far: > http://stlouis.craigslist.org/sks/4777335634.html > <http://stlouis.craigslist.org/sks/4777335634.html> > > 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. >>> >>
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