cops and beatings

Jeffrey Fisher jfisher at igc.org
Wed Jul 3 13:02:40 PDT 2002


On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 02:38 PM, John Thornton wrote:


>
>> At 12:17 PM 7/3/2002 -0500, john wrote:
>>> You think it's the job of the police to decide who 'Deserves" to be
> beaten
>>> and who doesn't?
>>> John Thornton
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> that those who get the raw treatment are violent males who fully
>>>> deserve such treatment.
>>>>
>>>> wojtek
>>
>>
>> No. But I do not feel like wasting my time to protest that either.
>>
>> wojtek
>>
>>
> My apologies then. I assumed that when you wrote they 'fully deserved'
> to be
> beaten by state sanctioned vigilantes you meant it and not that such a
> beating was unwarranted but not worth the time to protest.

afaict, wojtek doesn't think it's worth the time to protest because the people who get such treatment deserve it, perhaps even by definition (i.e., they get it BECAUSE they deserve it, whether it's the cops' right to determine that or not).

gotta love it. law and order leftism? beats me. <rim shot>

j



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