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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-14-05 07:53 AM
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next time i'm accused of a crime:
first of all i want to be TASERed by the arresting officer for not getting out of my vehicle fast enough to suit him. and maybe a couple more shocks after i'm cuffed and on the ground. god knows, i got it coming to me, y'know, well, i must've done something if i'm getting arrested.

and maybe a few more jolts with a cattle prod during the interregation, um, i mean questioning. someone accused me of something, i should just confess it!

then of course, i want to be convicted, not due to the evidence presented, but because, well, just because!

and if for some reason, i'm found not guilty, well, i'll never be innocent, and probably have some form mutilation coming my way from those for whom a jurys verdict just isn't good enough. i deserve it for being accused in the first place!

because, this is the way we do things now in the good ol' US of A!

fuck the constitution, and god bless america!
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emanymton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-14-05 07:59 AM
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1. Just Declare You An Emeny Combatant, Off You Go To Gitmo Gulag
Edited on Tue Jun-14-05 07:59 AM by emanymton
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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-14-05 08:00 AM
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2. I hear ya m'brotha.....
.....ass backwards world we *exist* in eh?! :hi: :hug:
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-14-05 08:10 AM
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6. or should just let myself get shot 29 times reaching for my wallet?
the 10 cops can say i was pulling out a gun, and we can spare the legal system the trouble of trial. :eyes:
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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-14-05 08:20 AM
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8. Seems the color of your skin makes all the difference too......
.....can't even begin to imagine what that kind of oppression is like...that story on the news last night about the guy who died after they tasered him untill he had a heart attack...NO CRIMINAL RECORD...just atrocious! :(
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Cyrano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-14-05 08:02 AM
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3. Hey, just tell them you voted for Bush twice.
That should give you enough time to run while they look at each other wondering what to do.

And for any "law and order" mavins reading this, check out the statistics on how many times blacks have been tasered vs whites.

And no, I don't have a link for that statistic. I just happen to read the newspapers every day.

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OldLeftieLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-14-05 08:05 AM
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4. The movie "Crash"
I loved it, and someone posted that they didn't like it because it showed blacks being harassed in white neighborhoods, as if they didn't belong there, playing into the stereotype.

It's not a stereotype - it's reality - and, no, you don't need to show me stats to prove that there's a huge race discrepancy in the style of justice administration in the US. In fact, we still are a nation of racists - we've just got a whole lot more different minorities to hate now.

Ain't life grand?
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-14-05 08:05 AM
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5. Good summation.
Whatever happened to "undue force", and "presumption of innocence" until proven guilty?
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lectrobyte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-14-05 08:17 AM
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7. That so "last millennium".
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rkc3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-14-05 08:49 AM
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9. Or at least "pre-9/11"
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-14-05 08:57 AM
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10. thanks, Kirk
this place disgusts me from time to time.

Last night there was no difference from Fox News.
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-14-05 09:20 AM
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11. i've also decided, it might be cool if a mob of people decended
Edited on Tue Jun-14-05 09:20 AM by KG
on me and beat the shit out of me instead of calling the cops.

vigilante justice is shiznit!
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