Citizen
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SNIP Hi, Citizen. Thanks for the opportunity to hopefully resolve what I meant to convey.
OK. Thanks. I added an ETA2 to my post referencing yours at post #20.
SNIP Hi, Citizen. Thanks for the opportunity to hopefully resolve what I meant to convey.
Whaaatt?? Cops aren't allowed to be a**holes? Did anyone tell THEM that? Certainly not in Seattle!UNLIKE COPS, citizens are allowed to be azzholes.
Aren't cops taught to ignore azzholes, and they go away? The rest of us are.
Whaaatt?? Cops aren't allowed to be a**holes? Did anyone tell THEM that? Certainly not in Seattle!
IMO, I think that is the correct answer to the video I watched....SNIP when assessing which of two people is the d*uchebag, the answer is almost always both.
Personally, I think you're a pretty poor representative for OC. Your language and demeanor during this encounter are appalling. It surely looks like your main objective was to provoke a response, or more likely an over response, from the officer.
Truthfully, by the end of the video I was kind of wishing you'd get what you wanted. Maybe a skull fracture would let in a few manners and a little common sense and decency.
Well, ARADCOM, it is unfortunate you see things the way you do, even though the video shows I was not even addressing this insecure cop until he addressed me. I also have no desire to be a poster child or "representative" for OC, or anything else. I am just a guy who also happens to open carry and film police. Maybe you have accepted that a person can treat another person any way they wish, or talk to them any way they like, so long as they have a shiny badge and uniform or have some sort of self-inflated sense of authority. I am the type of person who respects those who deserve it and don't cower to those who think they have power and authority over me.
At one point Murray/SPD declared the May Day events a "riot." Not sure if that granted them some "special" extra powers in WA or Seattle or not.
At one point Murray/SPD declared the May Day events a "riot." Not sure if that granted them some "special" extra powers in WA or Seattle or not.
ARADCOM, there's no explaining what you wrote. You've started back-pedaling, and after being such a bombastic jerk to some of the more respected members of this forum about it, you're trying, desperately, not to admit that you didn't say what you meant. At least, that's the best possible truth that could come out of your original post in this thread. What you posted was reprehensible. It doesn't matter how you try to spin it to cover it up; you posted some grade-A, rancid sh't. So own up to having made a stupid post and move on. This pansy-assed equivocating, insisting people put words in your mouth or took your words out of context, makes you look stupider.
Be a man. Admit you screwed up. Because, when assessing which of two people is the d*uchebag, the answer is almost always both.
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Truthfully, I don't care about you or your opinions. May you live long and prosper under the coming police state and when you look back on your deathbed, you regret not trying to save the country. I'd prefer you live long and enjoy that emotional pain of seeing the fruits of your 'opinions' become reality, versus die young and suffer physical pain for being a jerk hole..
I really, really admit to what I wrote.
Then you, not merely your words, are reprehensible and contemptible.
Fair enough. Many videos of citizens desiring to provoke vs. simply going about their daily lives. Not a fan of these citizens.Personally, I think you're a pretty poor representative for OC. Your language and demeanor during this encounter are appalling. It surely looks like your main objective was to provoke a response, or more likely an over response, from the officer.
Truthfully, by the end of the video I was kind of wishing you'd get what you wanted.
And yes, RR was acting like kind of a d'bag.
I read somewhere years ago that it is illegal in VA to have a gun and participate in a riot.
Doesn't change the fact that he was exercising his rights. Nobody ever needed a heavily protected right to say nice things to people or to say exactly what people want to hear.
By that standard police are violating the law when they show up armed to a protest then start inciting riot.
I saw a video several years ago of a protest. One of the protesters--the videographer--recognized a cop in casual clothes among the protesters. The cop was trying to incite the protesters to violence--classic agent provocateur. The guy shooting the video started alerting those around him about the cop's actual affiliation. You can bet there was no plan to arrest and prosecute that cop for inciting a riot while armed.
That's what citizen's arrest is for. If the representatives of the citizens are too apathetic (if not outright corrupt) to make the arrest, it falls to the citizens.
I'd say it begins with the citizen, then some power is granted to their employees to do what is a citizens job.