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RE: Apple harassing journalists
By MojoMan on 4/27/2010 10:34:23 AM , Rating: 3
He brings up a good point tmouse. Don't insult his intelligence. Someone can be narrow minded without being stupid. I don't think he's the one with the narrow mind here though. I have a cousin who is a sheriff. He has told me multiple times... they CANNOT protect you! They can only try to catch the bad guys AFTER a crime has been committed. That's why people need to arm themselves. His words, not mine.

Sure, we need them. They perform a vital function. However, police ARE working more and more with the military now (a violation of the LAW they are suppose to uphold), so his talk about police who abuse their power is a valid argument.

I was lied to and harassed by a police officer one time when I had just finished up my cheese burger in a McDonald's parking lot. He called me a liar and said I was up to no good. I drive a nice car, was in a nice part of town, had an empty McDonald's bag, and a receipt to show I had good reason to be parked in the parking lot for the 15 minutes I was parked there. Didn't matter. He still called me a liar and said I had been prank calling McDonald's. That's when I showed him my cell phone. What a pathetic joke of "police work." I'm sure we could all share stories like this.

RE: Apple harassing journalists
By tmouse on 4/28/2010 7:51:11 AM , Rating: 2
You obviously have a VERY distorted view clearly colored by your personal experiences, hardly someone to throw around the term narrow minded. I'll stand by my statements as I suspect the majority of people would. The police certainly are no gods, just people who have to deal with the crappy parts of our society so we don't have to. Most police are fairly decent people, sure there are a@@hats as there are in EVERY occupation bar NONE. Most of us really hate them when we get caught doing things we KNOW are wrong and say stupid things like why are you not going after real criminals? They "protect" not by stopping someone from a crime before it happens (which would kind of require some form of supernatural powers) but by enforcing the laws (whether we like the laws or not, determining if the laws are fair is not their jobs but the jobs of our elected officials and by extension us). Your cousin is a piss poor sheriff in my opinion if he really said that you have to arm yourself (I suspect you were talking about a VERY specific incident involving a violent crime). Taking drug dealers off the streets (if only for a short time) protects people, same with pedophiles. Yes even speeding tickets even though none of us like them, things would be ALLOT deadlier on the roads if there was NO law enforcement. Take a criminal off the street you protect future victims from that criminal (obviously not ALL crime). If your cousin cannot see that maybe he should turn in his badge.

