Comments on: Another Police Rampage in DC http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/05/21/another-police-rampage-in-dc/ Author James Bovard Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:47:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Bureaucrash - Join the Resistance » Blog Archive » National Police Week Terrorizes City http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/05/21/another-police-rampage-in-dc/#comment-120497 Bureaucrash - Join the Resistance » Blog Archive » National Police Week Terrorizes City Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:18:54 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/05/21/another-police-rampage-in-dc/#comment-120497 [...] http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/05/21/another-police-rampage-in-dc/  Email This   Print This [...] [...] http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/05/21/another-police-rampage-in-dc/  Email This   Print This [...]

]]> By: Santas Helper http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/05/21/another-police-rampage-in-dc/#comment-112665 Santas Helper Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:57:04 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/05/21/another-police-rampage-in-dc/#comment-112665 Mr. Bovard, With all due respect, please get a life. I watched a video of you on youtube. I am a liberal, and I am not a Bush fan, but you are a strange person...please go get a haircut, shave your fucking face, and find a way to unconfuse yourself. Oh, and as this will be my last post on your sorry ass site, I would like to extend and invitation to you: National Police Week is from May 11-17, 2008. Please stop by and take part in some of the activities, such as the Unity Tour, or the Candlelight Vigil. You will see nothing but a dignfied, moving event. But, I am sure that you won't write about that, you will write about the social parties that occur afterwards.....and I invite you to participate in those as well. Perhaps if you remove the pole from your ass, you will be able to lighten up and relax. Mr. Bovard,

With all due respect, please get a life. I watched a video of you on youtube. I am a liberal, and I am not a Bush fan, but you are a strange person…please go get a haircut, shave your fucking face, and find a way to unconfuse yourself. Oh, and as this will be my last post on your sorry ass site, I would like to extend and invitation to you: National Police Week is from May 11-17, 2008. Please stop by and take part in some of the activities, such as the Unity Tour, or the Candlelight Vigil. You will see nothing but a dignfied, moving event. But, I am sure that you won’t write about that, you will write about the social parties that occur afterwards…..and I invite you to participate in those as well. Perhaps if you remove the pole from your ass, you will be able to lighten up and relax.

]]> By: Santas Helper http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/05/21/another-police-rampage-in-dc/#comment-112663 Santas Helper Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:43:17 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/05/21/another-police-rampage-in-dc/#comment-112663 “Since when can officers from outside the district carry in the district? In many states with strong gun control laws it is not permitted.” A federal law was passed several years ago that allows active and retired police officers to carry a concealed weapon in all 50 states, and the District of Columbia. Does that bother you? If it does, tough.....you may be the retard that is getting his/her ass handed to them and need that out of state police officer to save you.....again, get a life and pound sand. Know the law on the issues that bother you before you open your trap and make an ass of yourself. “Since when can officers from outside the district carry in the district? In many states with strong gun control laws it is not permitted.”

A federal law was passed several years ago that allows active and retired police officers to carry a concealed weapon in all 50 states, and the District of Columbia. Does that bother you? If it does, tough…..you may be the retard that is getting his/her ass handed to them and need that out of state police officer to save you…..again, get a life and pound sand. Know the law on the issues that bother you before you open your trap and make an ass of yourself.

]]> By: Santas Helper http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/05/21/another-police-rampage-in-dc/#comment-112659 Santas Helper Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:32:41 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/05/21/another-police-rampage-in-dc/#comment-112659 Ok, you people are disgusting. That man that you are being so harsh on was taking part in the Police Unity Tour. Was he doing anything wrong in this picture? Is he a bit overweight? Yes, however unlike you idiots who are sitting at home on a computer making fun of him, he was out biking for a good cause and getting some exercise. Get a life, people. You are all so "anti-police" because you probably got in trouble for acting like the dumbasses that you are, and now you hate all cops. Go pound sand. Ok, you people are disgusting. That man that you are being so harsh on was taking part in the Police Unity Tour. Was he doing anything wrong in this picture? Is he a bit overweight? Yes, however unlike you idiots who are sitting at home on a computer making fun of him, he was out biking for a good cause and getting some exercise. Get a life, people. You are all so “anti-police” because you probably got in trouble for acting like the dumbasses that you are, and now you hate all cops. Go pound sand.

]]> By: Kirsten http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/05/21/another-police-rampage-in-dc/#comment-87553 Kirsten Sun, 03 Jun 2007 08:36:47 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/05/21/another-police-rampage-in-dc/#comment-87553 Wow, you people really don't have a life. Get one, and stop wining about the cops. They do a job you all don't have the heart to do. Wow, you people really don’t have a life. Get one, and stop wining about the cops. They do a job you all don’t have the heart to do.

]]> By: Billy Beck http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/05/21/another-police-rampage-in-dc/#comment-85379 Billy Beck Wed, 30 May 2007 17:43:25 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/05/21/another-police-rampage-in-dc/#comment-85379 "The shooting appears justified. If anyone tried to throw a rock at me from a close distance.." You have no idea what you're talking about. You are the reason why I pointed out in my original post that some people simply will not understand this issue. The guy who got shot was *not* throwing the rock at the cop. “The shooting appears justified. If anyone tried to throw a rock at me from a close distance..”

You have no idea what you’re talking about.

You are the reason why I pointed out in my original post that some people simply will not understand this issue.

The guy who got shot was *not* throwing the rock at the cop.

]]> By: JD http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/05/21/another-police-rampage-in-dc/#comment-84400 JD Tue, 29 May 2007 02:22:39 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/05/21/another-police-rampage-in-dc/#comment-84400 "Since when can officers from outside the district carry in the district? In many states with strong gun control laws it is not permitted." Since the local officers don't bother to enforce the law, that's since when. There's a feeling that there's a brotherhood of cops, and you don't disarm, arrest, or otherwise harass another police officer, regardless of what the law actually says. “Since when can officers from outside the district carry in the district? In many states with strong gun control laws it is not permitted.”

Since the local officers don’t bother to enforce the law, that’s since when. There’s a feeling that there’s a brotherhood of cops, and you don’t disarm, arrest, or otherwise harass another police officer, regardless of what the law actually says.

]]> By: Matt Singer http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/05/21/another-police-rampage-in-dc/#comment-84052 Matt Singer Mon, 28 May 2007 05:28:20 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/05/21/another-police-rampage-in-dc/#comment-84052 Somebody above writes that officers swaggered around DC with badges on neck lanyards and guns on their hips. Since when can officers from outside the district carry in the district? In many states with strong gun control laws it is not permitted. Somebody above writes that officers swaggered around DC with badges on neck lanyards and guns on their hips. Since when can officers from outside the district carry in the district? In many states with strong gun control laws it is not permitted.

]]> By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/05/21/another-police-rampage-in-dc/#comment-83332 Jim Sun, 27 May 2007 00:51:30 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/05/21/another-police-rampage-in-dc/#comment-83332 If this thread was simply about the pictured cops girth, then you might have a point. But this and the following blog entry on the same topic included thoughtful comments and good insights by a wide array of people. There was a "frank exchange of views" with a policeman who attended who made several comments on the following blog. And these two blog entries helped make people aware of the lady who was catching a lot of flak for her courageous videos. As I said in an earlier comment, if I had had an excellent photo of the cops running the red light while holding up their hands to stop traffic - I would have also used that one. The photo at the top spurred interest in the topic, and as time went on, fewer comments focused on the cop's size. If this thread was simply about the pictured cops girth, then you might have a point.

But this and the following blog entry on the same topic included thoughtful comments and good insights by a wide array of people. There was a “frank exchange of views” with a policeman who attended who made several comments on the following blog. And these two blog entries helped make people aware of the lady who was catching a lot of flak for her courageous videos.

As I said in an earlier comment, if I had had an excellent photo of the cops running the red light while holding up their hands to stop traffic - I would have also used that one.

The photo at the top spurred interest in the topic, and as time went on, fewer comments focused on the cop’s size.

]]> By: Grey Ghost http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/05/21/another-police-rampage-in-dc/#comment-83293 Grey Ghost Sat, 26 May 2007 23:34:17 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/05/21/another-police-rampage-in-dc/#comment-83293 BTW, "Annie" is right. It does no credit to the cause of freedom to mock people for their physical shortcomings. If someone told you, Jim, to "get a haircut, ya hippie freak," we would rightly point out that your hair had nothing to do with the validity of your argument. We have thousands of valid reasons to denounce the repressive laws and law enforcers in our country, and many good reasons to deplore the behavior in DC at Nat'l Police Week. We get taken more seriously if we stick to the real issues. After all, our issue here is that the police in DC for that celebration were hypocritical, they misused their authority, and they acted like the criminals they're supposed to be protecting [<I>sic</I>] us from. We lose credibility bigtime if all we do is point fingers and say, "Nyah, nyah, look at the lardass!" In short, I am not concerned directly with the amount of sweetness and light in the world (as Annie might be), I simply think we won't be listened to if all we can do is mock. After all, we're trying to educate people and show them the real appeal of freedom, so they can take back their country, right? BTW, “Annie” is right. It does no credit to the cause of freedom to mock people for their physical shortcomings. If someone told you, Jim, to “get a haircut, ya hippie freak,” we would rightly point out that your hair had nothing to do with the validity of your argument. We have thousands of valid reasons to denounce the repressive laws and law enforcers in our country, and many good reasons to deplore the behavior in DC at Nat’l Police Week. We get taken more seriously if we stick to the real issues. After all, our issue here is that the police in DC for that celebration were hypocritical, they misused their authority, and they acted like the criminals they’re supposed to be protecting [sic] us from. We lose credibility bigtime if all we do is point fingers and say, “Nyah, nyah, look at the lardass!”

In short, I am not concerned directly with the amount of sweetness and light in the world (as Annie might be), I simply think we won’t be listened to if all we can do is mock. After all, we’re trying to educate people and show them the real appeal of freedom, so they can take back their country, right?

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