On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Jim Choate wrote:
On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Reese wrote:
At 03:10 AM 11/4/01 -0800, Raymond D. Mereniuk wrote:
Back to Sandy's coments Re: rape victims. Just because you got a big mouth doesn't mean you should become a victim.
Would you say greeting every police officer you meet by calling them "useless pigs" would be begging for victimhood?
I'd say it was a good litmus test as to who should actually be a police officer. Anyone who got perturbed by such a comment has zero business being a law enforcement officer.
Agreed. As an interesting aside, there is actual case law in New York that would be on point here (although I can't for the life of me find the damn citation. Sandy?). The NY Court of Appeals ruled that it is not possible to "disturb the peace of a police officer". The incident was in fact someone calling a cop a "pig", and their subsequent arrest for "disturbing the peace". -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration towards setting a better example: Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate... This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers, associates, or others. Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the first place... --------------------------------------------------------------------