Comments on: Arresting people for criticizing the cops is a no-no http://www.samefacts.com/2009/10/crime-control/arresting-people-for-criticizing-the-cops-is-a-no-no/ Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:54:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Horseball http://www.samefacts.com/2009/10/crime-control/arresting-people-for-criticizing-the-cops-is-a-no-no/comment-page-1/#comment-34475 Horseball Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:16:06 +0000 http://www.samefacts.com/?p=9242#comment-34475 K- Good point, so long as you consistently dismiss the tu quoque arguments offered in the posts on this blog. How's that for recursion? K-

Good point, so long as you consistently dismiss the tu quoque arguments offered in the posts on this blog. How’s that for recursion?

]]> By: K http://www.samefacts.com/2009/10/crime-control/arresting-people-for-criticizing-the-cops-is-a-no-no/comment-page-1/#comment-34472 K Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:27:38 +0000 http://www.samefacts.com/?p=9242#comment-34472 I've got a parrot that answers everything anyone says by saying "А у вас негров линчуют." (Remind you of anyone?) It's smart, for a bird. Nevertheless, it doesn't seem to know that <i>tu quoque</i> arguments are usually fallacious. I’ve got a parrot that answers everything anyone says by saying “А у вас негров линчуют.” (Remind you of anyone?) It’s smart, for a bird. Nevertheless, it doesn’t seem to know that tu quoque arguments are usually fallacious.

]]> By: paul http://www.samefacts.com/2009/10/crime-control/arresting-people-for-criticizing-the-cops-is-a-no-no/comment-page-1/#comment-34464 paul Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:37:28 +0000 http://www.samefacts.com/?p=9242#comment-34464 You know, if I hadn't seen Horseball repeatedly excoriating Rupert Murdoch as a political censor for not offering me a daily hour on Fox News, I might think his comment was in bad faith. There probably is a place to discuss issues related to private actions taken as a result of political beliefs revealed on the public record (and just which records of signatures, contributions etc need to be named and public to preserve democracy), but I'm darned if I can see that place being in the comments section of a post on a public official acting under color of law to injure people who have expressed political opinions about his fitness for office. You know, if I hadn’t seen Horseball repeatedly excoriating Rupert Murdoch as a political censor for not offering me a daily hour on Fox News, I might think his comment was in bad faith.

There probably is a place to discuss issues related to private actions taken as a result of political beliefs revealed on the public record (and just which records of signatures, contributions etc need to be named and public to preserve democracy), but I’m darned if I can see that place being in the comments section of a post on a public official acting under color of law to injure people who have expressed political opinions about his fitness for office.

]]> By: fishbane http://www.samefacts.com/2009/10/crime-control/arresting-people-for-criticizing-the-cops-is-a-no-no/comment-page-1/#comment-34449 fishbane Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:56:21 +0000 http://www.samefacts.com/?p=9242#comment-34449 Arpaio's main problem is that he likes the cameras a bit too much. If he'd been happy to be a small-town authoritarian blowhard, he could empire-build like the same sorts of people in LA and TX. Actually, not that different than Giuliani, but for the bigger sandbox. Arpaio’s main problem is that he likes the cameras a bit too much. If he’d been happy to be a small-town authoritarian blowhard, he could empire-build like the same sorts of people in LA and TX.

Actually, not that different than Giuliani, but for the bigger sandbox.

]]> By: Justin_Anderson http://www.samefacts.com/2009/10/crime-control/arresting-people-for-criticizing-the-cops-is-a-no-no/comment-page-1/#comment-34447 Justin_Anderson Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:42:30 +0000 http://www.samefacts.com/?p=9242#comment-34447 @Horseball- Interesting that you should see no difference between releasing what is a public document (once the petition is submitted) and the use of the state to bully and intimidate dissenters. I thought you wingers were opposed to jack-booted thugs and their black helicopters. @Horseball-

Interesting that you should see no difference between releasing what is a public document (once the petition is submitted) and the use of the state to bully and intimidate dissenters. I thought you wingers were opposed to jack-booted thugs and their black helicopters.

]]> By: Barry http://www.samefacts.com/2009/10/crime-control/arresting-people-for-criticizing-the-cops-is-a-no-no/comment-page-1/#comment-34435 Barry Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:17:13 +0000 http://www.samefacts.com/?p=9242#comment-34435 Typical right-winger. Show him actual government agents kicking in people's doors and arresting them for political activity, and he's good with it - so long as they are right-wing government agents. Typical right-winger. Show him actual government agents kicking in people’s doors and arresting them for political activity, and he’s good with it – so long as they are right-wing government agents.

]]> By: Horseball http://www.samefacts.com/2009/10/crime-control/arresting-people-for-criticizing-the-cops-is-a-no-no/comment-page-1/#comment-34426 Horseball Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:25:53 +0000 http://www.samefacts.com/?p=9242#comment-34426 How do you feel about releasing the names of the signatories of the anti-same sex marriage petitions? Is there any purpose to releasing these other than to "injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate" the people who signed the petitions, as the time for contesting the petitions is long since past. I'm sure that you felt the same way when Paula Jones was audited by the IRS. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/pjones/stories/pj091597.htm How do you feel about releasing the names of the signatories of the anti-same sex marriage petitions? Is there any purpose to releasing these other than to “injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate” the people who signed the petitions, as the time for contesting the petitions is long since past.

I’m sure that you felt the same way when Paula Jones was audited by the IRS. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/pjones/stories/pj091597.htm

]]> By: K http://www.samefacts.com/2009/10/crime-control/arresting-people-for-criticizing-the-cops-is-a-no-no/comment-page-1/#comment-34425 K Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:25:23 +0000 http://www.samefacts.com/?p=9242#comment-34425 Expect the right to sell him as a victim-enemy of arbitrary government by Washington tyrannts. Sorry to say, it doesn't cover anyone in glory that for a quarter-century FBN/BNDD/DEA thought this sinister vacancy fit to be trained in the exercise of authority. And he did rise high. Expect the right to sell him as a victim-enemy of arbitrary government by Washington tyrannts.

Sorry to say, it doesn’t cover anyone in glory that for a quarter-century FBN/BNDD/DEA thought this sinister vacancy fit to be trained in the exercise of authority. And he did rise high.

]]> By: Quiddity http://www.samefacts.com/2009/10/crime-control/arresting-people-for-criticizing-the-cops-is-a-no-no/comment-page-1/#comment-34421 Quiddity Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:51:45 +0000 http://www.samefacts.com/?p=9242#comment-34421 The sooner Arpaio gets his ass in a sling, the better. The sooner Arpaio gets his ass in a sling, the better.

]]> By: Peter G http://www.samefacts.com/2009/10/crime-control/arresting-people-for-criticizing-the-cops-is-a-no-no/comment-page-1/#comment-34418 Peter G Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:15:28 +0000 http://www.samefacts.com/?p=9242#comment-34418 That's 18 U.S.C. sec 241 (not 214) -- a surviving (and valuable) part of the venerable Anti-Ku Klux Act of 1871. <em>[Corrected - thanks. MK]</em> That’s 18 U.S.C. sec 241 (not 214) — a surviving (and valuable) part of the venerable Anti-Ku Klux Act of 1871.

[Corrected - thanks. MK]

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