Offend the Police — Lose Your Job

[green73]

Will Grigg:

A cop who kills without just cause can expect a paid vacation and rapid exoneration. A cook or a waitress who offends the police with a Facebook post can expect to be fired as a result of an orchestrated social media pressure campaign by police organizations.

Snip:

As Shawn Peterson has learned, a citizen who uses social media to criticize police abuses can find himself – and his employer – on the receiving end of orchestrated vilification by the police.

Because he criticized the police on his personal Facebook page, Peterson wound up being fired from his job as a cook at Leslie's Family Tree diner in Santaquin, Utah, in which he provided a worthier public service than any of his tax-devouring antagonists. His termination had nothing whatsoever to do with his job performance; the café’s owners acted in self-preservation after police across the country started an online campaign to drive down the business’s ratings in social media review sites.

http://freedominourtime.blogspot.co....-your-job.html

[Anti Federalist]

Thought you had freedom, huh?

[phill4paul]

police across the country started an online campaign to drive down the business’s ratings in social media review sites

But I still should not collectivize all cops, amiright? F*ck the police. Every last one of them that put's on a uniform or badge.

[Suzanimal]

[phill4paul]

Perfect!

[Occam's Banana]

http://freedominourtime.blogspot.co....-your-job.html

More from the same article:

In addition to terminating her loyal employee for an opinion he had expressed on his own time, Broadbent offered free meals to law enforcement officers, who – as members of the tax-devouring class – already dine at the expense of others.

That gesture didn’t earn the approval of Utah resident Cindy Moss, the aunt of 22-year-old Darrien Hunt, who was recently gunned down by police in Saratoga Springs.

At the time, Hunt was carrying a replica sword. The officers who murdered him, reciting from the familiar catechism of self-justification, claimed that they acted to prevent “harm” to bystanders, none of whom was in any way alarmed or threatened by Hunt. In similar fashion, the officers claimed that Hunt had “lunged” at them with the sword – yet somehow managed to be shot six times in the back.

The police account was predictably dishonest, self-contradictory, and inconsistent with both witness testimony and physical evidence – and it was just as predictably ratified by the Utah County DA’s office, which ruled the murder a “justifiable homicide.” In addition to avoiding prosecution, Hunt’s killers can now stop by Leslie’s Family Tree diner for a free meal anytime they please. Such are the perks of being part of the killer elite.

“My sister still hasn’t been able to pay for her son’s funeral,” complained Moss in a message to Broadhead, “and you are giving a free meal to the guys who killed her son because they were cowards and created the death of an innocent man!”

One of things that really chaps my ass is when victims of police thuggery (or their family or friends) - who now ought to know better - make excuses for (or even just soft-pedal their criticisms of) the cops.

Many, many props to Cindy Moss for NOT doing so and for calling it like it is.

Here's a couple of threads about the murder of Darrien Hunt:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...-while-fleeing
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...ed-to-get-shot

[tod evans]

But I still should not collectivize all cops, amiright? F*ck the police. Every last one of them that put's on a uniform or badge.

But, but apples or some-such..........

[Christian Liberty]

I just read the article again and after doing so, I'm really not surprised that what happened happened. Mind you, I completely understand his frustration. Cops are legalized kidnappers. But saying "the only good cop is a dead cop", whether you believe that or not, is not going to get you anywhere.

I am first and foremost disappointed that cops have gotten bad enough in this country that it is actually possible for a decent and reasonable person to think in that manner. But I still think it was ill-advised on his part.

As for P4P's whole thing about collectivizing cops, I'm going to be honest, its hard NOT to collectivize everyone in a gang. I don't think any of them are "good" but I do think some are significantly worse than others.

[Slave Mentality]

But I still should not collectivize all cops, amiright? F*ck the police. Every last one of them that put's on a uniform or badge.

Amen brother.

[jbauer]

we're PAYING cops to go after people who criticizes them online?

[Suzanimal]

More from the same article:


One of things that really chaps my ass is when victims of police thuggery (or their family or friends) - who now ought to know better - make excuses for (or even just soft-pedal their criticisms of) the cops.

Many, many props to Cindy Moss for NOT doing so and for calling it like it is.

Here's a couple of threads about the murder of Darrien Hunt:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...-while-fleeing
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...ed-to-get-shot

Copsucking's a mental illness.

[CaptUSA]

Copsucking's a mental illness.

Interesting. Because mental-sucking seems to be a cop illness.

[Spikender]

This is actually a feel-good story.

Because sometimes it's actually "Offend the Police - Lose Your Life".

[FloralScent]

That can be taken in many different, politically incorrect directions.

[GunnyFreedom]

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xd2...ial-real_music

he's on the list

[heavenlyboy34]

I didn't appreciate that when I first read it in junior high. I wish my teacher had been competent enough to really think about what the story is about. ~sigh~

[GunnyFreedom]

I didn't appreciate that when I first read it in junior high. I wish my teacher had been competent enough to really think about what the story is about. ~sigh~

George Orwell was a very brilliant man. Much of what he wrote was ad ridiculum to demonstrate a point. I think even he would be surprised at the materialization of the ridiculous.

I could totally see a modern adaptation of Animal Farm casting Repubs at goats, Tea's as sheep, Dems as Donkeys, maybe Occupy the horses, and so on; Liberty dogs, of course, all as people with the 'animal' theme only lightly touched or hinted at. Piggish politicians and their enforcers. Cast the entire script as if it were a "basically true story" that takes place today. Make it a morality piece teaching Danger: Do Not Let The Pigs Divide Us. Hollyweird blockbuster.

[coastie]

I didn't appreciate that when I first read it in junior high. I wish my teacher had been competent enough to really think about what the story is about. ~sigh~

I had to read it in 9th grade. I was an English dork, so from 8th grade on my "Honors English" classes were all Literature and reading classes, and I'm glad our teacher was a BIG fan of Orwell, and I think it was in that class at 14 years old is when I started to wake up...

[GunnyFreedom]

I had to read it in 9th grade. I was an English dork, so from 8th grade on my "Honors English" classes were all Literature and reading classes, and I'm glad our teacher was a BIG fan of Orwell, and I think it was in that class at 14 years old is when I started to wake up...

I had a similar experience in literature. I was in the "all these people are way too advanced and we don't know where to put them" English Lit class for most of my scholastic career. I was actually (officially) introduced to Orwell in ... 6th grade? I had already read Nineteen Eighty-Four a couple years earlier, but I was an OCD reader freak, so I had already read a LOT of stuff by the time it was introduced to me. Animal Farm I think I officially read in 8th grade. By the time I was in HS I was doing analysis and contrast of Heart of Darkness vs Apocalypse Now. Being such an avid reader from almost the time I opened my eyes, and always being in the very top lit classes wherever I went because of it, I too was exposed to "big ideas" at a very young age. Consequentially, the Ron Paul Revolution was not an awakening for me as much as it was "Holy cow, I'm not alone!"

[Philhelm]

I was an English dork....

I had always assumed that you were a U.S. citizen.

[phill4paul]

I prefer a more true to form visual...

[phill4paul]

George Orwell was a very brilliant man. Much of what he wrote was ad ridiculum to demonstrate a point. I think even he would be surprised at the materialization of the ridiculous.

I could totally see a modern adaptation of Animal Farm casting Repubs at goats, Tea's as sheep, Dems as Donkeys, maybe Occupy the horses, and so on; Liberty dogs, of course, all as people with the 'animal' theme only lightly touched or hinted at. Piggish politicians and their enforcers. Cast the entire script as if it were a "basically true story" that takes place today. Make it a morality piece teaching Danger: Do Not Let The Pigs Divide Us. Hollyweird blockbuster.

Instead of a book to write why not a screenplay?