Read some of the background on this. A small "Mayberry" sized town in Arkansas (although that is a serious insult to Mayberry), with 174, yes that is one hundred seventy four, residents, who employed 7 police officers. Citizens complained that they were never available to take actual police calls because they were always writing tickets. One guy said he got a ticket for speeding in his driveway.here's a question. but, it says that there where 7 cops in the court room.
do they have a night shift ever? who was out on the streets with all of them in court?
why where all of them in traffic court at the same time, do they really write that many tickets? holy crap.
and last but not least. you have 7 officers in the court room, i highly doubt you would have to resort to your handgun with those odds. are you seriously serious? shooting him in the back when it's 7 vs 1...
lol, how do you possibly manage to connect this Obama?The future of the US country wide with obama in charge.
zack991 wrote:
lol, how do you possibly manage to connect this Obama?The future of the US country wide with obama in charge.
I'm not defending the man; in fact, this has nothing whatever to do with him.
But, honestly, this is how America has been shaping up for the past 50 years. It's nothing new, not even remotely.
And, in general, the right holds as much responsibility as the left, even the new left, even the Obama-left.
The love of police and statism that saturates the new right is one of the things that drives so many liberty lovers equally away from the partisan right as the partisan left. And what you're seeing with police in this country is their legacy, even where aided by neo-liberal statism in kind.
This has nothing to do with Obama.
Welcome to the new America, being established for decades now.
I am not connecting obama directly to this mess, but the style of corruption we see here is the same. Where if you have the power and are in the correct group, you will never have to fear about having to be accountable for anything. That you can do as you please and all you have to silence those objecting to current policy's or laws is ignore them or call them racist for example.zack991 wrote:
lol, how do you possibly manage to connect this Obama?The future of the US country wide with obama in charge.
I'm not defending the man; in fact, this has nothing whatever to do with him.
But, honestly, this is how America has been shaping up for the past 50 years. It's nothing new, not even remotely.
And, in general, the right holds as much responsibility as the left, even the new left, even the Obama-left.
The love of police and statism that saturates the new right is one of the things that drives so many liberty lovers equally away from the partisan right as the partisan left. And what you're seeing with police in this country is their legacy, even where aided by neo-liberal statism in kind.
This has nothing to do with Obama.
Welcome to the new America, being established for decades now.
If something like this happened 50 years ago, we might be looking for a shallow mountain grave.marshaul wrote:zack991 wrote:
lol, how do you possibly manage to connect this Obama?The future of the US country wide with obama in charge.
I'm not defending the man; in fact, this has nothing whatever to do with him.
But, honestly, this is how America has been shaping up for the past 50 years. It's nothing new, not even remotely.
And, in general, the right holds as much responsibility as the left, even the new left, even the Obama-left.
The love of police and statism that saturates the new right is one of the things that drives so many liberty lovers equally away from the partisan right as the partisan left. And what you're seeing with police in this country is their legacy, even where aided by neo-liberal statism in kind.
This has nothing to do with Obama.
Welcome to the new America, being established for decades now.
Geesh. This is NOT "the way America has been shaping up for the last fifty years". This is a bunch of hick cops in a hick town with a hick judge in a hick courtroom, and things like this were MUCH more common over 50 years ago than they are today. Diff is that we get instant satellite-fried reportage of every little thing that goes on in even the remotest places. If we had the modern scentific technology of today back then, incidents like this would have been so common as to not merit coverage nationally. To cite this isolated case of Ozark Rufuses going wild as evidence of the culmination of some kind of trend is like finding out a guy built a replica of a Sopwith Camel and calling the biplane "the future of aviation" The people involved here are not part of any "trend". They are THROWBACKS.
BTW My ssincere apologies to anyone who lives in a small town if the word "hick" offended you. "Hick" is not a geographical description, it is a mindset. And it is not always a bad thing, it depends on context. I come from a long line of Midwestern hicks, and I am proud.
The people involved here are not part of any "trend". They are THROWBACKS
The fact that, in a 7 vs 1 confrontation, police shot a man in the back, in court, and then charged him for it, makes this very much a modern event. Nothing like this would have ever happened 50 years ago, ever. Not for the whole world to see.
Sheriff's deputies patrolled Jericho until the 1990s, when the city received grant money to start its own police force, Mr. Martin said.