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Originally Posted by Pa. Patriot
Not sure how I missed this little gem.
I couldn't help but laugh at first. Funny thing is that, technically, I did not get to eat but a literal couple bites of my dinner I paid for... For me it's not a big deal. Not the first meal I've missed a paid for meal due to something coming up or another priority... Nope, the problem was not that I didn't get to eat my meal. It was a LOT bigger than that.
The real problem is that in the above quoted post you presume to know what we went through. You then intentionally marginalize what we went through.
What a down right crappy thing to do 
No Dave, it was definitely not just a few bites of food.
In reality we were abused by out of control public servants.
We were removed from our friends and families for nothing
We were talked down to.
We were insulted.
We were publicly detained and searched.
We were made a negative and public spectacle of due to the ignorance of some public servants.
We were forced to then decide to sit back and ignore the abuse and thereby be partially responsible for any further abuses by this police department or go through the toils of trying to hold these "officers" accountable for their actions. Public abuse, time, and money to name a few.
I was physically ill for the first three days due to lack of sleep.
And you dare marginalize the abuse of citizens by trusted citizen peace officers. I'm very disturbed by that.
Let me tell you something else, Dave. My six year old son has been in fear of the police ever since. Despite several conversations explaining the problem and that the police are not the bad guys. He has had several melt downs upon seeing police while out and about since 5/9... Just Monday night, I took him to get ice cream, for a promised reward. As we sat at the picnic table outside the ice cream stand, two TWP police cars rounded the corner. The TWP building is across the street from the ice cream stand. My boy pointed and yelled "police".
I said that's OK, they're just going to their office. There he sat, unable to hold in the tears, despite my assurance that the police were not coming to arrest daddy. Unable to finish his ice cream. What should have been a happy reward turned into a very shitty outing.
So you go ahead and marginalize the abuses of your fellow officers. I really don't think I expect any different from you, seriously, I don't.
I'm damn well going to "proceed with the case", because I know it makes me better than them. Regardless what that makes me to be in your biased eyes. |
Whoa. If this is for the lawsuit showing mental anguish, great and go for it. But....lets not turn the D12 into Rosa Parks
I am not going to give anybody advise on what to teach their kids but to me this incident would make a perfect lesson on the real world and how great of a country we do live in.
If it was my 6 year old....
First Lesson: life is hard and unfair where bad things happen to good people and sometimes bad people get ahead of the good people. Anybody teaching their kids anything counter to this is doing them a great disservice. While it is true that all will be evened out on Judgment Day, on this earth teaching kids that "everything will be ok" and "you are special" fails to properly equip them for life's hardness - which I guess is why many young adults are today running around with a inflated sense of self entitlement while crying like school girls when their Starbucks coffee is not the correct temperature. Yes Billy: life is hard. life is unfair. sometimes you will fail even if you work hard and do all of the right things. Now, pull your pants up, stop complaining and get out there and start swinging because doing anything less, even with all against you, robs you of life's immense joys of when you do win against the odds. Doing anything other than fighting against the odds is a sin.
Second Lesson: Power in the hands of any group is bad. The more hands that hold the power the better. In most other countries in the world, at most other times in the history of mankind - when the powerful or their representatives (i.e.. Police) want to impose their will it is done in darkness with no accountability. Billy: after thanking God for your parents and all of your blessings, don't forget to thank him for living in the greatest country every to exist in all of history. Daddy was not shot and left on the street. Nobody in dark suits showed up at 3 am to take him away, never to be heard of again. No Billy, here in the USA the people still have the power, the rule of law still is our guiding light. Remember, if all men were saint we would not need laws or government. Remember Lesson One, even those entrusted to enforce our laws can do bad things but that is only the very first step in the process. The police had their turn. Their use (abuse) of power is done. Now, the second step of the process begins. Watch how Daddy, a simple man - not rich or powerful or one of the elites - will proudly walk into a court room and with the firmness of his conviction to tell the powerful that they did wrong. Watch, Billy, with amazement and humble appreciation the great power of our system that any man can stand against the government to claim his rights as a free man. Watch Daddy without fear tell those with guns and tanks: NO! And even if Daddy does not win the day, be proud of him for standing up for what is right. Be even prouder of our great country that it is still possible. Remember this day proudly for the rest of your life so that when you are older and see injustice you will not just walk away while the weak are bullied.
Afraid of the police? Billy: you are a free man, An America! We are not afraid of the governement - they are afraid of us. We do not bow down before our leaders, we toss thier asses out of office if they don't do as we want and we sue the snot out of them if they trample our rights. Now, how about some ice cream?