Posted on 07/12/2003 7:41:07 AM PDT by NYC Republican
Sounds exactly like what the Fetus People have done to Doctors performing entirely legal abortions.
They disaprove of their activities, so they shine a spotlight on their personal lives.
So9
Then the cops are not the right target for your rage are they?
The internet makes the world small again, not much different than a small town say 100 years ago where your Sheriff was known by everyone.
And the sheriff also knew everyone in town and had a chance of being able to perceive where a personal threat might come from. Not so now.... The town that cop still must work in is no longer small. You are concerned that the police have access to information about the entire populace, to use in the event that they might need to look at one of us. That is the gift of a city block full of file cabinets full of stuff that one would never care to look at in entirety.
This is not that.... this is a website singling our cops to those most likely to be leading the angry mob.
Then again, the SCOTUS seems to be working from a different text than the rest of us. For example, this "right of privacy" that I can't find anywhere in the Constitution is a pretty odd beast -- it protects abortion, but not information people might consider private.
Actually there are many of us around. In my case I've had my life very much disrupted by a bad cop, and I know many people who've had similar experiences.
Some people don't take kindly to official abuse and fight back.... it's the American way. If they'd police themselves and quit defending every rogue in the "brotherhood" they wouldn't have these problems. Instead of purging the creeps from their midst they bunker. It's called backlash.
The feed off the public teat like the pols, it should all be disclosed.
I want to know where oly snowe got her money, I want to know where dick daley was last night and why.
the disclosure that public rats have now are jokes, I mean I made over a million but under 10 last year, and no you can't see my off shore accounts.
An open society is a free society.
Well said. It's seems obvious the LEO's, in this case, took advantage of Sheehan's loyalty to his friend(?) The legal system decided to make an example out of him, put him through their grinder, then cut him the slack he deserved (apparently) in the first place.
I don't blame him for being angry and wanting a little, virtual, "street justice".
The department who hired him to do work he was not well suited for. He is only a personal threat in the job... His wife, family and residence is not my business.
No himself. We do have a duty to protect them from the bowels of society that we *HIRE HIM* to go take care of on our behalf.
When there are no longer any gurads on the guardians, then kiss your butt good bye.
If I want to protest the sucker at home I need to know where he is at.
Or would you deny my right of peaceful protest and assembly?
Once again, well said. A hundred years ago, a LEO in a small town that became too ambitious about the letter of the law and had disregard for the spirit, might find his boots nailed to the porch one morning. Police are public servants, not representatives of the King.
That was until some s**thead deputy decided he was going to win an argument with me and do it illegally. I'm going to put a post up regarding this after I go to court, but I promise you he picked the wrong guy this time. I'll ping you to the thread when it goes up.
I'm guessing that this webmaster had a similar experience, as do many many people, which indicates the system needs reform if there is this much backlash. IOW it's not just a rogue here and there, it's a systemic problem.
I really hate to generalize but next time you see a bunch of cops together check them out. A majority of them are overwieght, not very bright and socially inept. Maybe we need to give them a better salary as it is, these guys power to competence ratio is to high.
That said, I'm uncomfortable with him posting SS#'s.
Yeah! Well one time the "bowels of society" tried to rob me at my place of business. I had a phone to 911 in one hand and a 1911 in the other. When the Torrance Police arrived, after 20 minutes and going to the wrong address, they let the thugs go, lack of evidence. I called the watch commander in outrage. They sent a crime scene detail and found money and a gun. When they ran the names of my unsuccessful assailants, they all had records.
Now before you say I'm lucky to be alive, I once carried a sidearm at the insistence of President Lyndon Johnson, so I'm in no mood for the standard LEO's admonition to leave it to "professionals". The "pro's" I've seen make amateurs appear competent. I think EVERY police department should have a site for citizens to post complaints that can only be removed by Internal Affairs or the DA.
The department didn't do the action, the people didn't do the action, a single enity did the action.
We have to remember to disclose, internet rants have caused many posters to be set upon. I've seen it right here on FR. Be careful if you've had a few adult beverages.
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