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You know that if this were a story about black kids carrying on in Gary or Indianapolis, these same swanky parents would be supporting the cops 110%.

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Really? I don't care whether the kids are black, white, green, yellow,checkerboard, or pokadot. I have a big problem with cops busting into a house without a warrant and indiscriminately arresting adults for something that should not even be a crime in the first place.

YOU DON’T NEED A SEARCH WARRANT FOR DISTURBING THE PEACE CITATIONS. WHAT, THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO “HOLD OFF” AND GET THE WARRANT WHILE THE NEIGHBORS HAVE TO PUT UP WITH THIS S**T FOR ANOTHER TWO HOURS?
AND, THEY WEREN’T ADULTS. AND IT IS “POLKADOT”.

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It amazes me to hear people on Free Republic cheering the death of liberty and the rise of the police state. The police ADMIT they don't know which kids actually violated the law so they simply charged everybody like all good police states do - guilty until proved innocent.

I bet you won't cheer the loss of liberty and the rise of the police state when the police come for you - but by then it may be too late.
LOSS OF LIBERTY? OH, PUHLEAZE. WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT IS HOW FOLKS ARE SO WORRIED ABOUT THEIR RIGHTS AND SO LITTLE CONCERNED WITH THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES. THIS IS A UNIVERSAL PROBLEM IN THIS COUNTRY THAT SPANS AGES, DEMOGRAPHICS, RACE AND, JUDGING BY THE RESPONSES HERE, POLITICAL AFFILIATIONS.

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Oh so you have conclusive proof everyone of these kids were drinking do you? Well I suggest you give it to the police because they sure as hell don't have. But never mind, convict them all, we don't want a little thing like evidence, proof, or due process to get in the way of your pre-concieved bias.
YEAH, I MUST BE WRONG. I AM SURE THESE ARE ALL CARD-CARRYING EVANGELICALS WHO WERE ERRONEOUSLY SWEPT UP IN A DRAGNET. WE WONDER WHY SOME KIDS WILL OBSERVE A GANG RAPE AND NEVER DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT (A SUBJECT ON SOME PAST POSTS I BELIEVE). OH, THEY WERE JUST THERE (SO THEY SAY), BUT “THEY DIDN’T PARTICIPATE.” IT STARTS HERE – MAKING CHOICES, MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICES, STARTS HERE.

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You are painting with an overly-broad brush. In the same breath you are calling the parents racists (without any evidence whatsoever) and stereotyping the behaviors of "evil rich people". NO, I AM CALLING THEM HYPOCRITES, FAILING TO BE INVOLVED IN THEIR CHILDREN’S UPBRINGING, AND FORCING THE NANNY STATE TO DESCEND UPON THEIR KIDS AND DO IT FOR THEM, AND THEN WHINING ABOUT IT.
Are you a Democrat? I HAVE BEEN A CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN PROBABLY LONGER THAN YOU AND I DESPISE “PRIVILEGE” OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING THAT AFFORDED BY WEALTH. GIVEN THE WAY YOU ARE CHARACTERIZING THE POLICE, SOUND LIKE YOU BELONG TO ACORN OR ACT OR THE SDS OR SOME OTHER ANARCHIST GROUP.

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All these little rich brats think they have a God-given right to screw off just because Daddy has money.

My guess is they've been paying attention to how the system works.
YEP.

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"You know that if this were a story about black kids carrying on in Gary or Indianapolis, these same swanky parents would be supporting the cops 110%."

Bingo. Same applies to certain FReepers.

I LOVE HOW EVERYONE IS JUMPING TO THE DEFENSE OF THESE KIDS AND AUTOMATICALLY ASSUMING THE COPS HAVE RUN AMOK. I DIDN’T SUPPORT THE RAISING OF THE DRINKING AGE TO 21 (I REMEMBER WHEN IT WAS 17), BUT MY KIDS SURE AS HELL BETTER ABIDE BY IT SO LONG AS THEY’RE UNDER MY ROOF (EVEN I’M NOT NAÏVE ENOUGH TO PREDICT HOW THEY’LL BEHAVE IN COLLEGE-ALTHOUGH I CAN HOPE).

FRANKLY, I AGREE WITH A POSTER WHO SAID THE COPS WILL HAVE TO DROP AT LEAST SOME OF THE CHARGES; PART OF THE GIVE AND TAKE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT. I ALSO AGREE WITH ANOTHER POSTER WHO SAID WE COULD HAVE A BETTER PROCEDURE THAT PUTS THE FIRST OFFENDERS ON A DIFFERENT TRACK, MAYBE EXTRAJUDICIAL.

BUT IT IS BOTH AMUSING AND SAD TO SEE HOW SOME HAVE ASSUMED THAT THE COPS ARE ON SOME CRAZED POWER-HUNGRY CRUSADE AND THESE KIDS ARE JUST A BUNCH OF INNOCENTS. WE DON’T KNOW IF THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THE COPS HAD COME TO THIS HOUSE. WE DON’T KNOW IF THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THE COPS DISCOVERED ALCOHOL. NO, WE ONLY KNOW WHAT THE “NOT MY LITTLE MUFFY” PARENTS ARE TELLING THE PRESS.

I AM AN EQUAL-OPPORTUNITY ENFORCER. NO PLEA BARGAINS UNLESS YOU CAN GIVE UP SOMEBODY HIGHER UP THAN YOU. IS THERE AN RACIAL IMBALANCE IN DEATH SENTENCES? MY ANSWER: EXECUTE MORE WHITE MURDERERS. I AM FOR THE UNIVERSAL DRAFT AND A FLAT TAX. I BELIEVE THAT YOU HAVE TO GIVE BACK TO THIS COUNTRY AT LEAST AS MUCH AS YOU GET. AND NO, I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR COUNTRY-CLUB REPUBLICANS (AND THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT THESE KIDS AND THEIR PARENTS AREN’T SOME NO MORALITY, PRO—ABORTION, I-LOVE-THE-STATUS-QUO-SO-LONG-AS-IT-BENEFITS-ME ELITISTS). IF YOU DON’T WANT THE GOVERNMENT (OR HILLARY’S “VILLAGE”) RAISING YOUR KIDS, THEN GET INVOLVED AND RAISE THEM YOURSELF, AND RAISE THEM EFFING RIGHT.