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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (565506)5/11/2010 12:36:29 PM
From: i-node1 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) of 1577188
 
>> How would you feel if you were stopped? I know how I would feel.

When you're dealing with serious issues such as this, there has to be some limit beyond which "feelings" are back-burnered.

When I lived in a small town I was stopped for driving down the street to my home at 2am. (This was a town where I was well known to practically everyone and certainly to the police -- having been previously arrested for possession of marijuana at a time when it was a serious offense). My car was searched, I was placed in handcuffs in the patrol car, and eventually taken to the police station where I was released and told to "walk back to your car". I was pissed. Beyond pissed.

It wasn't racially motivated. I wasn't gay, so it couldn't have been that. You might say I was "criminally profiled". WTF does it matter?

But I got over it. So, too, will these people who have to sacrifice to accommodate a difficult situation (arguably, the police in AZ are far more justified in their actions than were the cops in this particular incident).

My incident in no way deters me from the belief that most cops are good people trying to do the best they can. The Left's free-floating hatred for cops is totally irrational. These are people who are doing a tough, dangerous job for very little pay.

Next time you suffer a PTSD-inducing crisis, call a school teacher.
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