University of Florida Police Brutality

[Noah]

Good job at derailing an interesting thread into another USA vs World clusterfuck. This thread has reached Telcat quality because of that.

[Tone]

Please dont tase me bro T-SHirts are now on sale

http://www.cafepress.com/countaquote/3699938

[ConcreteSchlyrd]

www.donttasemebro.com

[GuruMeditation]

Good job at derailing an interesting thread into another USA vs World clusterfuck. This thread has reached Telcat quality because of that.

Ban the non-americans then.

When you have a population across the world you're going to get world views.

[Bilbo]

On the contrary the French are notable for making their voice heard when they aren't happy with what the government is doing.

In fact therein is the very problem with their country. They believe their voices should be heard regardless of what is best for France. So they'll go to any means to do so. Blocking streets, suspending public services ... it's a nightmare for someone like me who could care less. Striking is the French national pastime.

Sarkozy is going to be a nasty reality check for anyone there content with sitting back and letting the government taking of them.

When was the last time the American people protested against anything and made anything happen? When the last time the Swedes ... well made anything happen. All huff, no puff.

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Yeah, I'm well aware of the fact that the french protest pretty much everything. The story of the french farmer who dumped manure infront of the city hall of whatever it was is quite wellknown here.

I thought you knew me better than that.

[GuruMeditation]

You called me French! What do you expect?

[Squeezer]

Am I the only person that was alarmed to hear no one speak out?

This dude is getting dragged out and put on his face by 5 cops and not one college student speaks up? Then I figured someone had to yell when they tasered him...But no one did.

Then I thought about if I would have spoken up. It's really sad how apathetic my generation is.

[Ayano]

Americans would like to think they live in a country with freedom of speech, but that isn't true. After september 11 G. Bush created fear among the people and told the citizens, you geno, that they needed protection. Every dictator has used the fear-factor to gain power by telling the people they need protection against the enemies. Now tell me. Who who is the sheep here?
Go ahead, ignore the euro.

And like guru said, hi by the way peter, wait until you meet the spanish police (gardia seville or something), or the french, or the italian, or the croation (etc,etc). Then you will learn the hard way what respect for authority is.

You're problem is that you live in a sue-country. A doctor is afraid to give perscription because he will get sue'd for wrong advice. If you poor coffee too hot, you get sue'd (i mean, WTF).

By removing all warning labels from all electrical devices, the problem (you, geno) will solve itself, but that's just an euro opinion.

Typical Euro who thinks they know US politics; I second the ignore notion. No offense but your analysis on the bush,fear, and dictator relationship is so laughable it hurtzz.Aside from your first paragraph, the rest is pretty spot on the suing and civil law.

Bush was far from a dictator or an inspirer of fear during his election, 9/11, and especially now. He's a patriotic Texan lackey from the heartland who loves football who just so happened to run for president, and won through religious voters.. and lifers.

Whatever you're reading; you're wrong. Cnn represents the US? wrong again.

[GuruMeditation]

Then I thought about if I would have spoken up. It's really sad how apathetic my generation is.

He's a middle class white boy. No one cares about them.

[Pearl Jam]

bottom line: the guy was a douche, they used excessive force on him. someone takes the fall, probably the campus police, nothing changes on the whole

next

edit: what up conc?

[genocidal]

European countries have far more surveillance than the US. Hell, you're pretty much on videotape in every big city in England constantly unless you're in your house. The difference is, Americans complain about it while you guys eat it up because you think your government is there to keep you safe and healthy (i.e. not news-worthy).

[Noah]

European countries have far more surveillance than the US. Hell, you're pretty much on videotape in every big city in England constantly unless you're in your house. The difference is, Americans complain about it while you guys eat it up because you think your government is there to keep you safe and healthy (i.e. not news-worthy).

Thank you for the details about Norway, do you have anything else to add?

[Cylor]

My school had a stabbing the first day of classes that I, suprisingly enough, watched first hand. There was a pretty old guy screaming a state-of-the-nation-esque manifesto outside our student center that sounded like mostly nonsense to me but I was pretty far away. At first I thought it was Ward Churchill for some odd reason, but the closer I got the more he looked like a busriding crazy. I had class for fifteen minutes so I stayed for a couple, there weren't any officials there yet but more and more students were attracted to the man taunting, "IS THIS ALL ENTERTAINING YOU? AM I GIVING YOU PLEASURE? I STAND FOR blah blah blah yadda yadda yadda..." Right around this time a traffic cop and a parking ticketer made their way over and then the guy started yelling that he had a bomb in his backpack and he had his hand in his pocket where he claimed to have a detonator. I was thinking about leaving right then, for safety's sake, but curiosity kept me glued. I had been there for maybe five minutes or so when a kid walked out of the building the man was standing on the steps of and unknowingly made his way towards the crowd. He was a freshman and probably oblivious. I was swimming in dramatic tension. The kid attempted to walk past the man but he grabbed him from behind, took out a knife, and slit along his neck. Then he stabbed himself about seven times as cops flooded in to attend to the kid, and to tazer the man to cease from stabbing himself. The blood drenched the concrete and he kept yelling for at least two more minutes while being repeatedly tazered. It was out of this world, I had never seen anything like it before. I stood and watched for a little while longer but eventually made my way to class. On the way I heard normal campus banter but suddenly everything seemed very far away but I was angry that these kids were discussing schedules and Spanish class. The kid is doing alright now, I think, and they took the assailant to the hospital, too. It is just bizarre how someone can snap and everyone is in danger.

http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2007/321.html

Not that I meant to derail the thread, but the tazer reminded me.

[ConcreteSchlyrd]

edit: what up conc?

You know how I do... showing southern Illinois how we does it up in the IAC. What's crackin on your end?

[SEAL]

Typical Euro who thinks they know US politics; I second the ignore notion. No offense but your analysis on the bush,fear, and dictator relationship is so laughable it hurtzz.Aside from your first paragraph, the rest is pretty spot on the suing and civil law.

So a euro cannot have an opinion about usa politics? You're politics effect ours. (the veto option usa pulled, for example, about invating iraq while the UN clearly gave a red flag. Now we have to help clean up shit we didn't want to get into in the first place). Me being 'outside the box' might give a strong analytic view on the mather? Just sum up what bush has implied and what he's telling the public why he's doing it. "ok we can bypass the rights you have as a civilian (if suspected as a terrorist) in order to keep the country safe". (uhh??)

fyi: I'm not talking about what i pick up from cnn because, in fact, my gf is born/raised [edit] is a jersey girl, 10 mins from nyc [/edit] (now improving in amsterdam) so we actually have quite alot of discussions on this mather.

But don't get me wrong. I do understand not all americans agree with the bush politics, hence almost 50% didn't vote for him. So to make a generalization about a yank, in this time, would be the dumbest thing ever. Point is, bush isn't the lovely patriotic Texan lackey from the heartland who loves football. <- now that makes me laugh so bad it hurtzz.