This is offensive. Somehow it does not fit in with what we teach our children to expect from police.

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Remember that these are "christians". Obviously, no one went to a liturgically-based church yesterday or, if they did, they slept during the Bible readings.

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And there you have it, Razorbabies. Why The Natural State is 49th.

"She never took part in anything like this. Of course, it's Arkansas. There isn't a lot of that here."

Glad to see you've some OWS occupants near The Rock's Post Office. Glad to see your police (so far) have apparently been civil and Constitutional.

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Pictures worth a 1000 words

they never learn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_ca…

Tenured Assoc Prof at UC Berkley
http://youtu.be/kNHXuf6qJas

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Nichols is not quite the selfish person the GOP like to cast the OWS folks to be. They are real people with real issues. I'm aware of some in their ranks that are employed, have jobs, pay taxes, have homes but still they camp out at OWS sites. They take their resources, their time and their talents and apply it toward social deficits in society.

These are selfless people who see the unbalanced distribution not of wealth but of laws and benefits that support the wealthy 1%. They see the current climate of government more indifferent than intrusive in the common person's life and hands off the 1%er's life.

Individuals like Nichols exist in the OWS movement and they surface in media reports often. They fly in the face of GOP politicians telling me lies about who the OWS folks are and what motivates them.

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The portrayal of OWS as unemployed hippies is like the portrayal of Obama as a Muslim is like the portrayal of Iraq as a nation with WMDs. Big lies told lots of times. When the mainstream media could no longer ignore OWS, they turned to ridiculing it.

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Sometimes Humans are confused.
Some seemed to have missed the point, I am not from an Alternate Universe; I’m from the Dark Universe, the Universe where humans are evil, this Universe.

In “Chain of Command” (the second episode in the series' history to earn a parental advisory disclaimer) Captain Picard is tortured by the Cardassians (not the Kardashians). Picard reminds his torturer that “When children learn to devalue others, they can devalue anyone, including their parents.” The Interrogator responds that “my daughter will never worry about going hungry.” Picard observes “Her belly may be full, but her spirit will be empty.”

This is what America has come to.

http://www.civilliberties.org/win98spray.h…


"Torture has never been a reliable means of extracting information. It is ultimately self-defeating as a means of control. One wonders it is still practiced."

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"UC Davis police chief put on leave in pepper-spraying controversy

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011…

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Ms. Nichols is like some of my kinfolks who went West in the 1930s, because they could not make a living in Arkansas. When they got there, some of them found success; some of them found disappointment. None of them found pepper spray, because it wasn't around then, but some of them may have participated in labor demonstrations, God bless their souls. I don't know if any of them got their heads knocked, or not. What I do know is that we all ought to give thanks that we have kids who will take to the streets to make a political statement. I have missed the 1960s, and have begun to think that our young folks didn't have it in them any more to protest injustice and inequality. I now take all that back.

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Why does the First Amendment mean so much more to you than the Second?

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Hey, Arky, carry your guns all you want. Just don't pull them on me when I am expressing my opinion. Besides, ideas are much more powerful than guns. You can't kill ideas with guns.

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So instead of staying in Arkansas and helping her parents, she went to Portland and protested! How dare her get a job to help her family!

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Acting for the common good can be more important, Orville Fulbright. That's especially true when your personal problems have systemic, structural causes.

I realize it's better for the rich and powerful to have us all scurrying around trying to save ourselves at the cost of everyone around us, and I realize they are threatened by collective action of those they exploit and oppress. Clearly Orville Fulbright understands that too. That's why he's taking his side and I'm taking mine.

Taking my side means acting for the common good, sometimes at the short-term expense of myself and those I love. Sorry if that gets in the way of power and wealth.

Actually, no, I'm not. I'm not sorry at all. As Bob Dylan sings:

I'm not sorry for nothin' I've done.
I'm glad I fought--I only wish that we'd won.

You know what? I plan to win this time.

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Oh, and I'm all for the second amendment. I think we've got plenty of laws which, properly enforced, would keep small arms out of the hands of those few who shouldn't have them. I think people have the right to own the sort of weapons which, as a matter of last resort, make them capable of resisting tyranny. Sorry if that troubles the pearl-clutchers among us.

A friend of mine, very conservative but with a fine heart, says this:

There are four boxes: Soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use them in that order and only as absolutely needed.

Now if you'll pardon me, I'm going to plan to see my out-of-state relatives who'll be arriving this week. It's deer season, you know.

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The only hunters who've lost their 2nd amendment rights are those who hunt humans, just ask Gabby Giffords.

When will the cops learn? Just take the UC-Davis case, though there are many other examples since the Occupy movement began. The 2 pepper spraying campus cops have been put on leave, the Chief of the campus cops have been put on leave. UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi, a Bush appointee keeps her job.

Example number 22,953,392 of the little guy/tools taking the fall for the big dogs. Remember Abu Ghraib prison? Remember who went to prison for abusing prisoners? It wasn't the big dogs, it was the little guy/gal tools.

Anonymous has pulled out and published the UC-Davis pepper spraying cops personal information. Google it and you too can call them at home or sent them email. They will be fired, they will never be hired to do anything in this country, they will probably get their asses kicked. And UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi will probably get a raise. Same for Bloomberg in NYC....little guy/tools will hit the toilet, the big dogs won't feel any pain.

How long will it take the pepper spraying cops to figure out they're being used and will be disposed of soon afterwards like a used Tampon. Is our cops learning? Want to ruin your life....abuse non-violent protesters while the cameras roll. Gees....if these cop/tools are that dumb....should they be cops?

And the new question that's being asked is when did every police force in America become militarized? Imagine Andy & Barney covered in riot gear, weighed down with electronic gizmos, giant cans of pepper spray, 3 or 4 different kinds of cutting edge weapons, rubber bullets, bean bag projectiles, sonic ear splitters.......man....poor old Otis would be an oozing, bleeding, dog meat every Saturday night.

And I type this imagining what it must feel like to look up and see black-ops helicopters hovering over Little Rock. Is our country crazy? Yes....as of 9-11-2001. Can't you see how victorious Osama is even in death?

We live in a Police State and you ain't seen nothing yet. It won't phase the 1% a bit if blood runs in the streets of every town & city in America. But if their little guy/tools figure out they're being used and tossed, maybe the 1% will start losing power and realize everything they do makes the Occupy movement grow larger. Occupy!

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DBI, I don't see any of the Occupy people having to get expensive permits from the state to exercise their First Amendment rights. I also don't see them going through background checks to be able to protest government.

I support both of these God-given rights, equally and fervently.

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