http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Wed, 7 May 2008 03:55:19 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/09/024837.php#comment-716038 this pig that works for the lapd. is a real lying, cheating, dirty son of a bitch homewrecking shithead. he met my wife about three years ago, when he worked as a insurance salesman. he has been fucking her for about two years now. he is married and lies to his stupid wife about it. he has brainwashed my wife. turned her into a alcoholic and a pill addict. my two childeren now live with my ex. now come to find out he does also. i warned him two years ago to back off. now he wants to take my family from me and pretend i aint going to do nothing about it. HIS NAME IS RANDY BUSHNWINCH OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. HE WORKS FOR L.A.P.D. as a background investigator. he thinks he can walk all over me cause i have a lengthy record. he has ruined my hopes and dreams for a family. i will not let him take whats mine. he is a coward and will not fight me. all he wants to do is call more cops. he is a little puppet bitch. he is a no good backstabbing liar of the worst kind. his marriage failed miserably. now he wants mine.? fuck no. sooner or later he will regret not adhering to my opinions. 716038@blogcritics.org Wed, 7 May 2008 03:55:19 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/09/024837.php#comment-705813 Al, I know this is an old thread, but it's interesting. We don't have the random motor-vehicle drug-stop in this part of Australia (yes, they still need probable cause, although I suspect they can make that up: "He had long hair, your Honour, and looked like a suspect in an earlier robbery. He wasn't, but we stopped him and searched for pot anyway and wasted his f..kin' time and ours") at road blocks, although the cops have used drug dogs in raids at notorious night-clubs and outside big rock concerts, although the courts are having things to say about it the same as they are in the US. However, it is very common in Australia to be pulled over by a police random breath-testing unit. I don't object to that, as they do catch a lot of people and my view is, if you have nothing to hide and haven't been drinking, no problem. There's no sobriety test - you blow into a hand-held testing unit without leaving your car, and if you register above .05, you get carted off to the cop shop for another "evidentiary" test that is more accurate. Sometimes, people likely just on .05 when they were stopped will blow just under and be released. However, what I object to in all this is that when these laws were brought in years ago, the state government here made a song and dance about privacy and personal freedoms, assuring motorists that under the legislation they'd set out for RBT, the police weren't meant to ask for your driver's licence or to search your car or indeed do anything but breath-test you unless they had cause to suspect you might have done something else. The problem is, that's pretty close to an open-interpretation and left up to them, they'll use it any time they feel like it. Example: last year, I had just a haircut. I drive a newish, imported European car. The police stopped me for an RBT, I blew 0 and they thanked me, called me "Sir", never asked for my licence or checked my registration sticker, wished me a good night and I drove off. Recently, I was stopped again. Once again I blew a 0. But this time my hair had grown to well below collar-length, and I have a goatee-style beard and moustache. They asked me for my licence, took my licence away to their patrol car, probably checked my bona-fides and that I wasn't driving a stolen vehicle (I saw them looking at my licence plates and my registration sticker), and in the meantime, a guy was checking in the back with a torch and asking me stupid questions about the surfboards, wetsuits, blocks of boardwax, spare fins, screwdrivers (well-known housebreaking implement, and of course no one uses them for anything else ... "Yes mate, I use it to take the fins on and off - see the screws at the top of each one and the fin boxes on each board"). At least 10 minutes of wasting my time and theirs, but since it's their job and they're getting paid and I'm just trying to get home for dinner after a 10-hour day, mine's more important. Same deal last year when I returned to Sydney airport from a trip to Portugal. I had long hair, and I was grilled quite extensively, a drug dog checked my bags, etc etc, and I was personally questioned a second time in the arrivals hall by a uniformed customs officer. Two months later, I am returning from a trip to Thailand, one of the drug-trafficking capitals of the world, but had since cut my hair short. Lo and behold ... no one even gives me a second look. I just waltzed through the nothing-to-declare queue and out to the cab rank. And of course, you are right: when it's left to the interpretation of the police, they will always be heavy-handed. We don't have written constitutional protections in regard to the kind of stuff you are talking about, but they are protected at common law in much the same way, and Australians are very serious about their common-law protections much the same as Americans are with their constitutional ones. The notion of suspicion and what constitutes the eqivalent of probable cause, however, now seem to have passed into the hands of law-enforcement officers, both state and federal, and the only redress in relation to this now seems to be in the courts, where the judiciary at least is offering some contradictory viewpoints to those who seem intent on bullying us or at least using loopholes in the law to achieve their ends. It should never have got this far, however. Once you are depending on the courts to maintain freedoms you have until now taken for granted and that have existed at law anyway for 1000 years, you are well on the road to losing them. So keep railing against it Al. It's worth fighting for. 705813@blogcritics.org Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:03:05 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/09/024837.php#comment-705803 i dont know what the criteria is for a cop but it must be borderline plane stupid to sh&^ for brains.it really repulses me when i hear the crap that a cop puts their life on the line,for one it comes with the job just like if your a truck driver you stand the chance of having a wreck or if your a butcher its likely you will cut yourself...etc.so the crap that a cop is puting their life on the line is just that crap!i dont have any respect for cops for the simple fact they show me & the public no respect,their simply asholes thats on a ego trip cause some ashole placed a badge on thier worthless chest. 705803@blogcritics.org Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:49:50 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/09/024837.php#comment-705764 my experience with cops which is very little & minor,is that they are asholes & on an ego trip with that badge & gun.when they become a cop they know what hazards the job has.like when your a roofer you take a chance of falling off a building,if your an electrician you take a chance of getting electrified etc.fact of the matter is if you dont want to be involved in an already corrupt & worthless so called profession (COP)then dont join!!maybe their life wouldnt be at risk if they would treat people right. 705764@blogcritics.org Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:38:28 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/09/024837.php#comment-646712 HEY, TAPAWINGO TICKET GUY, THE REASON THEY SNAG EVERYONE IN THEIR 50 FOOT OF WOODS CHAPEL IS TO BRING IN OUTSIDE REVENUES, TO MAKE NON RESIDENTS PAY FOR THEIR SHIT LIKE WHEN THE TAPAWINGO COP SHOT THAT KID IN THE FACE THEN THE CHIEF OF POLICE JOINS THE PARTY, THEY TRY TO COVER IT UP.LEAVE THE KID THEY SHOT TO DIE IN THE DITCH-- NO SHIT CHECK OUT THE STORIES IN EXAMINER.NET THE COPS SAY THERE WAS A STRUGGLE- THEN THE MAN WAS SHOT, AFTER HE WAS SHOT HE DROVE OFF- THEN THEY SAY HE DROVE OFF THEN WAS SHOT- THEN THEY SAY THERE WAS NO STRUGGLE- THEY HAVE BURIED THIS POOR KID ALIVE I WISH I KNEW HOW TO HELP HIM HE WAS A COLLEGE STUDENT ON SCHOLARSHIP NOW I DONT KNOW BUT HE IS NOT THE SAME ANYMORE LOTS OF EVIL BEHIND THAT FENCE THE TRUTH IS SHOCKINGLY DIFFERENT THAN WHAT THE PAPERS PRINTED- LIKE THE INJURIES BEING "SERIOUS, BUT NOT LIFE THREATENING" THE KID WAS SHOT IN THE FACE WITH A 40 GLOCK 40, WAS ON A RESPERATOR AND WAS IN A COMA AND THEY DIDNT TELL ANYBODY 3 DAYS LATER WAS THE FIRST ANYONE THAT KNEW THE GUY KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT HAD HAPPEND 646712@blogcritics.org Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:46:52 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/09/024837.php#comment-639781 Cop Slop- I've heard of this phenomenon before. Take it for anecdotal hearsay, but I'm to understand that my godson's father was rejected for a local cop job in Indiana for scoring too high on whatever exactly IQ/aptitude test they were giving some years back. Then again, maybe that's halfway sensible. I would find it easy to imagine that a particularly smart cop might be more likely to object to doing dumb crap like these cheesy roadblocks. 639781@blogcritics.org Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:57:36 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/09/024837.php#comment-639764 Is there ANY other profession that shuns intelligent applicants? Police reject candidate for being too intelligent A US man has been rejected in his bid to become a police officer for scoring too high on an intelligence test. Robert Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took an exam to join the New London police, in Connecticut, in 1996 and scored 33 points, the equivalent of an IQ of 125. Is there ANY other profession with the disgusting double standards practiced by scumbadges? 639764@blogcritics.org Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:58:42 EDT