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[Tom Boucher <trekkie AT nomorestars.com>]

On Jul 9, 2004, at 9:32 AM, Kurt Schlatzer wrote:

> Tom Boucher wrote:
> > Every once in a while you come across something that makes you sick to
> > your stomach.
> >
> > This one is one of them:
> > http://www.brownequalsterrorist.com/artiststatement/index.php
>
> I'm sick to my stomach too, from all the whining and paranoia. The 
> cops were
> just doing their *job*. Would you want to be the cop that opted not to 
> check
> someone's ID, resulting in some horrific act? All that asswipe 
> photographer
> had to do was show his ID. If he wasn't doing anything wrong he didn't 
> have
> anything to worry about. Walk a mile in the cops' shoes before you get 
> your
> panties in a knot. They have families to feed, career expectations to 
> meet,
> etc. etc. When the cops can shoot you for not having an ID, then you 
> can
> whine.

Did you even fucking read it or are you such a war monger & a police 
power fan that you missed the part where there were other people (that 
he took pictures of as proof) that had cameras that were not 
approached/accosted/asked for ID?  Not just a few, but a whole bunch of 
them?  They weren't a bunch of white people either, they were the 
average american mix in the pacific northwest that most white people 
seem to forget exist.

Did you miss the part where he got permission first?

Did you miss the part where he refused to give his ID to a rent a cop 
but gave it to a police officer, only to be photographed 'for their 
records' after producing a valid identification and then told he was 
breaking the law when HE GOT PERMISSION TO DO IT, AND THEY FUCKING HAVE 
TOURS TO LET PEOPLE DO THAT ALL THE TIME??

Good god man, shut the fuck up if you're going to spout off without 
reading it.   either that or you read it and you've flunked reading 
comprehension 101 from 2nd grade oval tests.  I'm not some knee jerk 
liberal who pukes up on everything but that was a bit extreme.  Shit I 
can't believe that people stand for this crap or consider it whining to 
point out the injustice in it.