Mouthing off to police and soldiers...

Excuse me? You sound just like a damn fascist. Why the hell should someone get 10 years in jail just for SAYING something to the police that THEY don't like? What if said policeman (or woman) is deliberately harrassing you,even if you're obeying them? You'd be pissed off enough to say something. I'm sorry, but the average law-abiding citizen has the right to mouth off (provided that they don't make a total fool of themselves). Keep in mind, police are public servants and they should be held accountable for their actions toward the public, becaue we pay their salaries,too,dammit---just because someone has a gun and a badge does NOT give them the damn right to do whatever the *beep* they want to you. Yes,the police ARE the law, but that sure as hell dosen't make them ABOVE it,either. *beep* that s***! And yeah, Rodney King deserved to have his a** locked up for driving drunk like a damn fool, but did that really warrant his head getting bashed in damn near 50 times by a bunch of racist-ass cops who ended up getting away with it? Especially when he had already been shot by some type of taser gun and could barely get up or move after that? Hell NO! SO in your view, every drunk driver should just be gunned down on the street? That is so *beep* insane, it's unbelievable!


For example, about a month ago, there was a protest by an activist group I'm involved with here in Detroit. The occasion was a huge protest in the downtown area targeting the Bank of America, aligned with a mortgage company called Countrywide, which was going to put a 72-year-old disabled woman (along with her disabled daughter) out of the home she had owned for 45 years, despite the fact that she had taken out a reverse mortgage to keep up her house payments. It's a little more to the story than that,but anyway, I wasn't able to make this particular protest,but my colleagues that were there said that at one point---this was a peaceful protest BTW---the police, who were watching them, attempted to or did shove one of the protesters into the street. The group was told to move forward despite the fact that the police were blocking them from moving forward in the first place, and then someone in the group started chanting and all 50 people surged forward at once,defying the police. (BTW, the group had already checked beforehand and gotten permission to protest there, so their being there wasn't an issue). Anyway, here's our group's site---www.moratorium-mi.org. (BTW,the bad publicity we gave Countrywide forced them to reconsider the lady's reverse mortgage, and she was able to to get her house back, so THAT was the best thing about having had the protest to begin with.)
My point being, the group was being in NO way violent or really disturbing the peace, so the police really had no business trying to start some s*** with the group over nothing----that's my point---particularly since we had every legal right to be there.

Are you actually referring to the opening scene?!?!?!! The man´s only crime was to say his name in Gaelic instead of English. So you are actually believing it ok and "deserved" that he was beaten to death for it????? For crying out loud, that´s the worst thing I have heard all day. You probably would have let Great Britain sent you to Ireland and harrass innocent people.

'Or you simply can't accept that people who start threatening or throwing things at armed men are asking for whatever happens. '

For some reason, you sound Republican. The Obama comment, for instance.

But you are completely ignorant. Why do we have laws? To protect society. Why do we have police? Same reason. Why do we have freedom of speech? Well, we sort of like freedom.

You don't. You say - clearly - that what you're yearning for is total state control. 'Shut up and accept we're doing this for your benefit'. Going down that way you end up in facism. Long stretch? Not really. You see (you probably won't, but you should), if you deny people the right to react, to feel; if you want people to always follow the order of the guy with the gun, you remove people's check on power. There will no longer be restraints on the powerful, which very easily leads to dictatorships. And then, suddenly, the law you defend (seemingly) disappears out the window.

We do have laws against resisting arrest and such. But not being allowed to react like a normal human being - because the other guy has a gun... Boy, that's insane.