Baltimorei

[gimmethesimplelife]

And apparently in this case what it took was knocking a handcuffed man around in the back of a paddy wagon for 40 minutes to teach him a lesson. Or something. After all, he looked guilty of something. But maybe that look and running away was just fear that exactly what happened would happen.

+10000 Rob

[gimmethesimplelife]

Rob, why do you stay in the US?

I have given my reasons for remaining in the US in the past more than once. if you don't remember my posts in regards to this, please reply to this post and I'll state them once again. Rob

[catherine]

I like Al Jazeera. They are good at covering world news, have fewer commercial interruptions, and appear freer of corporate/government influence than other news channels.

I agree.

[gimmethesimplelife]

That's a vile evil hope. You hope that this summer someone gets killed by police, and before there is even a trial of the officers involved, citizens of a neighborhood burn down old folks' homes, their pharmacy, cars, and endanger the lives of the firefighters and medics who respond?

However, if your hope comes true, perhaps you'll be lucky enough to see it happen in your own neighborhood, so you can witness the society you hoped for first-hand, and enjoy its consequences personally.

I'm afraid I understand how little human life is worth in America when one is in a lower social class - I've known this since I was 13. Didn't take much for me to figure that one out, either. All I had to do was look around me and draw simple conclusions.

I'm also afraid that the police will not learn that they are not above the law and that a situation similar to what happened in Baltimore will soon take place once more. I have no faith in American police period, no suprise there by now for all reading this. It takes what it takes - and Baltimore seemed to prove that chaos can hold police accountable to the law. It might be much more appropriate, Bae, to point the finger at the United States and demand to know reasons why chaos is necessary for police to be held accountable to the law. Why the free pass for this country? Why does America deserve to not be scrutinized in the coldest of blood? It is unforgivable that chaos had to take place in Baltimore for these six officers to be charged for their misdeeds. It's long overdue that more people cold bloodedly comparison shop this citizenship to other countries and then demand to know reasons why America doesn't stack up well in certain areas, this being only one such area. Rob

[gimmethesimplelife]

I like Al Jazeera. They are good at covering world news, have fewer commercial interruptions, and appear freer of corporate/government influence than other news channels.

I've heard of Al Jazeera before. What network is this on? I'm thinking it's not on the standard channels? Possibly I can access Al Jazeera online? Rob

[bae]

Rob,

In your world, those police officers would have been taken out in the street and strung up from lamp posts, or burned alive, without any due process being involved at all. If they weren't simply torn apart by angry villagers.

You have in previous discussions evidenced little or no understanding of the timescales or process of our judicial system. It is premature to riot and burn buildings before a trial has even happened yet, for instance. Often charges aren't even made against wrong-doers until enough of an investigation has progressed to satisfy certain standards, and that doesn't happen overnight, unlike TV episodes.

I don't see people asking for "a free pass", I see them asking that we follow the rule of law.

Enjoy mob rule, while it lasts. Perhaps you'll get to video it in your neighborhood soon!

[Weston]

I like Al Jazeera. ......... appear freer of corporate/government influence than other news channels.

???? Al Jazeera is owned by the government of Qatar. Are you somehow under the impression that an organization owned by a country's government and chaired by a Sheikh who is a member of that country's ruling family is freerer of government influence than other news channels?

[LDAHL]

Is that the network Al Gore sold out to when his network didn't pan out?

[Gregg]

I'm afraid I understand how little human life is worth in America when one is in a lower social class ...

And so the antidote for one life being devalued is to devalue everyone else's as well? I much prefer a society that works to correct anomalies rather than one that simply discarding a system that has been worked out over 240 +/- years and, for the most part, works pretty well.

[iris lilies]

I have given my reasons for remaining in the US in the past more than once. if you don't remember my posts in regards to this, please reply to this post and I'll state them once again. Rob

But that was prior to getting married. Is he gun ho about moving south of our u.s. Border?