Florida university declares war on academic freedom. How can the nation survive the loss of liberty to fear and timidity?
The expatriate is back in town, in Miami, in Florida, in the great, free bastion of liberty, my United States. What do I find when I flick on the no-longer-flickering eye of the TV? A young man, a muchacho, a student with a hint of serious in his demeanor approaching the podium at the old but un-respected University of Florida. He insists on questioning Senator John Kerry after the politician had given his views and opened the floor for questions.…
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126 - Les Slater
Actually, it sounds more than a little like Blackwater.
127 - Baritone
There are no doubt some trigger happy idiots in uniform out there. Eventually, we may all be required to enter an airport terminal naked and submit to probing cavity searches prior to boarding a plane. (One can only hope that as a service to customers, they will remove polyps and give us a hemorrhoid and diverticular count along with our boarding passes.) "Optional paper gowns will be available in the overhead compartment on board the plane. Thank you for flying Derriere."
128 - Clavos
"There are no doubt some trigger happy idiots in uniform out there"
No doubt.
And about a hundred times as many trigger happy idiots without uniforms.
Personally, I'd rather be confronted by one of the former than one of the latter.
129 - Dave Nalle
I know it's all fashionable to blame the 'pigs' the agents of oppression and all that. And they do overreact sometimes. But in the case of this idiot girl arrested at Logan Airport, they deserve a bit of a break. She had a circuit board with active LEDs flashing on it attached to her chest and was carrying what looked like a ball of plastic explosive. What are they supposed to think?
She's an idiot, just like Andrew Meyer. Very much the same sort of attention-seeking egoist by all accounts.
Dave
130 - Les Slater
"She had a circuit board with active LEDs flashing on it attached to her chest and was carrying what looked like a ball of plastic explosive. What are they supposed to think?"
Dave, are you serious?
They weren't thinking. They were fuckin' idiots. They are totally clueless.
Flashing LEDs, SHEESH!
Blithering, blithering IDIOTS!
131 - Clavos
Both, no doubt, raised by parents who didn't believe in teaching their kids self discipline or in "inhibiting" them.
132 - REMF
"And about a hundred times as many trigger happy idiots without uniforms. Personally, I'd rather be confronted by one of the former than one of the latter."
- Clavos
Like William Calley, perhaps?
133 - Moonraven
The point here is that the US is an extremely racist country.
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134 - JustOneMan
They should have shot her in the head FIRST..than figured out if the bomb was real...
Those of you dising the cops are a bunch of morons who still think if we dont think about bad things (ie terrorist, Muslim assholes and mass murderers) they wont happen..
In todays world it must be shoot first and ask questions after..
JOM
135 - Baritone
JOM,
Gosh, it's certainly going to be a great and exciting world to live in if you get your wish. People will be dropping like rocks all around us. We should start taking bets about whether or not we will make it to work and back. We can learn what its really like to live in Baghdad. That'd be great.
Hey, that motherfucker's got a bomb! BLAM!!! Oh, sorry bro. Never mind, it was just a loaf of bread. Oh, well. At least the trains will run on time.
B-tone
136 - Dr Dreadful
Don't worry about JOM, Baritone. He's too busy picking the scabs off his knuckles to do any shooting.
137 - zingzing
"In todays world it must be shoot first and ask questions after..."-JOM
yee-haw, cowboy!
jom is like, the coolest mother-fuckin mother fucker on the fucking planet, don't you think, guys?
guys?
come on, dudes... he's soooo cool what with his "shoot first, ask questions later" attitude. man. it's like "ballz to the wall," man, all the time with that dude. he's got his head on straight, his gun at his side and his cock in his hand at all times, man.
he's a wreckin' machine, man, wreckin' all those fools who want to stand up to him. i bet he makes his bitches cum every time, man, not like you assholes.
wait. i thought we all agreed that it's obvious jom never gets laid.
oh well. theory shot. (we'll asks questions later.)
138 - Clavos
zing, wanna pass that joint around, dude??
139 - zingzing
and rj... jesus christ. you're such a white apologist. any time white vs. black comes up you just jump on the white man's side. never mind that the white kid deserved to get beat up for throwing out racial taunts, and if six kids wanted one kid dead, then he would have been dead, not dancing at a party later that night.
yeah, the black kids should have been arrested. for getting in a fight. the white kid should have been arrested to. disturbing the peace, etc.
(wasn't there something about another white kid with a shotgun who was wrestled to the ground? didn't he pull it out of his truck at a gas station? didn't that same d.a. charge the black kids with theft of a weapon and the white kid with nothing, even though he whipped out a fucking shotgun at a gas station?)
the d.a. is a racist, pure and simple. he doesn't ever charge the white kids who are equally responsible, or he gives them powder-puff plea deals. then he smacks the black kids with attempted murder of a kid who is dancing at parties before the charges are even brought up. pathetic.
rj, you need some perspective. this is a fucked up world, but it's a little better for you because you are white. you get a leg up on the world, and so do i. because we are white. straight up. pure and simple.
right now, i'm living at the border of a nice and not-so-nice area of brooklyn. i walked a few blocks in the wrong direction and i was in the middle of a ghetto. projects. people prostrate on the street, drinking in the middle of the day, people yelling at nothing; repulsive little stores selling total crap, nothing around but liquor stores and unisex hair salons. imagine growing up in that. that's something you don't escape all too easily. you have to have money to make it in this world, or some institution that believes in you, and those kids are very unlikely to find it.
jena is a place like that. it's racially divided along a highway line. growing up in one part, you're lucky; growing up in the other, you've got an uphill battle.
racism is obviously in that place, whether or not a majority of the citizens believe in it, it's there. there was a fight, but it was not attempted murder.
this shouldn't really be about white vs. black. it should be about a racist d.a.. but it's blown up now. those kids didn't deserve to rot in prison, and their parents shouldn't have had to mortgage their houses to pay for bail. it shouldn't have happened.
140 - zingzing
clavos i have no drugs that's the problem
141 - Clavos
"it shouldn't have happened."
that da is jim crow thru and thru.
bingo, bro.
142 - Les Slater
"In todays world it must be shoot first and ask questions after.."
Can you spell 'Blackwater'?