Quote Originally Posted by Alan View Post
Rob, It seems apparent to me that you have no understanding of any of the issues related to this case, just an emotional response grounded in who-knows-what. Your desire to try the case in social media, assume guilt without evidence and destroy peoples lives based upon nothing more than a desire to send a convoluted message are troubling, especially considering how many people share different aspects of your views.

I thing a primer in the universally accepted use of force guidelines and the legal system would lead to a more rational outlook.
The problem in your post above is that you obviously believe in and have faith in the police and the courts. Great, I don't have a problem with that, good for you. You get to see things as you wish in my book. The problem with your post is that not everyone has faith or trust in the police or the courts, and once you don't, there doesn't seem to be any going back to having this faith or trust. Honestly, for me the police and the courts really don't work and the best thing one can do is to avoid them as much as possible. Which is a concept that unfortunately Michael Brown did not understand as proven by his actions in the convenience store, I'll give you that. For me the system is broken and corrupt and needs a huge overhaul and I find the status quo repulsive and of great concern. To put it civilly and mildly. YMMV. Something else - just because something is so and is a law and is how things have been done for a long time does not make it right. This does not mean we should all go out and break laws - this means we might want to consider that for some people in this country, the courts and police work against them and not for them. A case in point would be young children in schools in Texas being arrested for flying a paper airplane in class, or spraying perfume on themselves in class, or for writing on their desks. This is indeed going on and it serves to show police and courts working against us and not for us. I'm of the opinion the only way to fight this is a 625K minimum settlement for each such arrest and the parents and children involved starting over in another country and voting with their feet with their settlements. Not going to happen, I realize this, but imagine the line of people that would want to get out of this nightmare we live under these days....I think you'd be surprised how many would leap at the chance to get out of the US for good once they have seen and dealt with what I am talking about. Rob