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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: Fred Ragan who wrote (9311)12/3/1999 10:53:00 AM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (2) of 9818
 
Yeah.. it easily could.

But given that the cops have NO CHOICE about being where they are (outside of quitting their jobs), I feel little sympathy for a bunch of willfully lawless hooligans protesting without even so much as a legal permit.

The cops have no problem with legal, non-violent protests and demostrations. It's the violent non-legal ones that must forcefully dealt with.

Why should anyone condone human beings intimidating and threatening other human beings?? How convenient to readily condemn the police, yet withold similiar condemnation for the instigators.

And how people be so stupid as to believe that when assaulted, police officers aren't going to feel an overwhelming urge to react in kind. Since when did a cop stop having human feelings or reactions the minute he puts on a uniform? Ridiculous...

I dare you to go up to a police officer and threaten him with a baseball bat or throw a brick at him or his car. Few of us would be willing to do so under normal circumstance, fearing that the officer may deem his life to be in danger and thus, authorized to use lethal force against us.

But all of sudden, you put these same cops in riot gear, stand them in a line, and suddenly it's alright for protesters to assault them. Heck... it would seem that riots are the only time that someone can get away with hitting a cop with a bat and not expect to get shot.
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