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HankT wrote:
That's kind of a bad error. It could easily be interpreted as a threat. I don't think that OCDO needs to get any more of a cop-bashing rep than it already has.
It's great you recanted, albeit in a rather contrived manner. If you ever get in a formal beef with LEOs....good luck.
You, above all, should know that not all words that are typed on a screen get interpreted in the terms they were meant. If someone wants to take what I typed as a threat, nothing is really going to change their minds on it. If someone can't determine that my recant was serious instead of contrived, so be it.
Cop bashing? eh, some cops deserve it. Some cops don't. I've always tried to treat any one person as an individual entity, with the respect deserved as a single entity. When that individual chooses to align themselves in a group that has bad apples, and then defend those bad apples, they are no longer representing themselves as a single entity. If cop bashing becomes a result of that, then one should wonder why is it that they are being bashed instead of complaining about being generalized.
If I ever get in to a formal beef with a LEO, they had better be conducting themselves within the law. Acting outside of the law offers them no protection. This crap about letting bad cops walk all over you while being subservient and polite and then taking them to court is relatively useless. Unless one has video and audio proof that their rights were violated, they have little chance at getting any real redress of grievance. If there is one thing I've learned about the judicial system in this country, it is that citizens only have the rights and protections any judge wishes to grant them at that particular time and it usually doesn't beat the word of a police officer.
