[SalukiLawyer]

Conservatives are big on personal responsibility, and we leave the sniveling whining and excuse-mongering to liberals

Conservatives are also big on an unwillingess to reflexively kowtow to agents of the state, and should leave the idolazation of government and its agents to liberals.

Whoever called the cops for this should be fired. Whatever cop decided to escalate salad-bar pilfering into a major taser event in a crowded restaurant should be sat down in a corner and allowed to reflect on his lack of judgment.

Can you image Andy Griffith doing this? Barney, yes, but Andy? No way.

[new cruelty]

Andy probably would have paid for the family's meal and gone off to more important things.