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Michael commented on the article |1st Amendment means you can wear whatever offensive costume you please, as long as it does not endanger the lives of others (so no flame thrower please).
African Americans today have no greater ownership of slavery victimization then Jews, Arabs, French, Russians, Chinese, or any other cultural group. If you want to end this, just laugh at the costume! Being offended is easy, tolerating is hard.
Let us all agree we have all been offended by something, then realize that being offended isn't a standard by which can be determine the forms of expression that should be forbidden.
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Michael commented on the article |Maybe there is a compromise that can be reached, maybe repaint the lane a less offensive color (offense being subjective) and making a pedestrian only area.
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Michael commented on the article |It will be interesting to see the results of the rape kit. This entire story is based on "M's" statements, which unfortunately for seekers of the truth, makes it challenging to know what to believe. A bit of forensic evidence will be useful in separating fact from fiction.
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Michael commented on the article |It's is unfortunate that with so much true injustice in the world we would concentrate on this non-issue. Looks like she committed a public order violation (exact verbage is state dependent) and failed to follow a lawful order and thus force was used to effect an arrest.
Use of force doesn't have to be pretty, nore the facts that she's wearing a skirt and drunk add anything to a 4th amendment violation claim (Graham v. Conner).
There is so much unreasonable anger towards other US Citizens (who happen to work for the government). We, the people of the country, are the most tolerate and rights minded people in the world.
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Michael commented on the article |"For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversationalist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule. If Mormons do not like my plays, let them write their own. If the Irish hate my Dublin stories, let them rent typewriters. If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmild teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture. If the Chicano intellectuals wish to re-cut my "Wonderful Ice Cream Suit" so it shapes "Zoot," may the belt unravel and the pants fall." ---Ray Bradbury author of Fahrenheit 451.
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Michael commented on the article |Without knowing how this man died, it's impossible to assign responsibility to a particular weapon. So even if it was the effect of the taser that resulted in his death, without evidence, it's a moot point.
Looking at the greater good, the development and deployment of tasers has saved lives, and the number of people (suspects and officers) who are seriously injured decreased.
There appears an underlying motivation for this article that is not stated, the evidence concludes tasers are are safer than the alternatives and saving lives.
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Michael commented on the article |Unfortunately, the biggest predictor of future performance is... past performance. So while the individual may have "payed their debt," they are still within a cohort which will re-offend at a rate significantly higher than the remaining population.
If the belief that this "box" is preventing the person from getting a job and thus... Forcing the person into a situation where re-offending become the best option, there may be something to it. The nature of criminal behavior would need to be considered, particularly the idea of a logical actor on the part of the offender. Interesting stuff.
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Michael commented on the article |Contrary to the authors position, data would indicate that the rate of death and injury since the introduction of the Taser has decreased. Tasers, based again on facts, are a less dangerous option then using batons and hands. (http://www.forcescience.org/fsinews/2008/07/new-study-ranks-risks-of-injury-from-5-major-force-options/).
To the author's assertion that law enforcement should use tasers, "instead" of firearms. This is tactically flawed. Any situation where the officer or a third person faces the risk of death or serious injury because of the actions of another person is not the time to be apply a taser. To the contracy, the officer should apply overwhelming force to immediately neutralize the threat. To take a taser to a gun fight is suicide and would only be recommended by someone unfamilar with gunfights.
Again I hope that everyone who takes the time to read this post also takes the time to read the case law and research and find the truth, there is too much bad information out there.
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Michael commented on the article |As for divorce. "Thirty years later, the myth of the good divorce has not stood up well in the face of sustained social scientific inquiry - especially when one considers the welfare of children exposed to their parents' divorces." and "more than two-thirds of all parental divorces do not involve such highly conflicted ("domestic violence or screaming matches between parents") marriages."
http://www.virginia.edu/marriageproject/
http://www.virginia.edu/marriageproject/pdfs/Wilcox_Fall09.pdf
To summarize, we need to get past the blaming and the anger and realize that we need to work together, encourage couples, even when they are in a batter relationship to get to the root of the problems:
http://www.nyu.edu/cvr/circles.html
And the next time you wish to outright insult me, please include a source and not just an opinion filled rant.
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Michael commented on the article |
Mr. Boony I do not appreciate your absolute attack on me and not on my statement. If you had taken the time to read the link you would have clearly seen my evidence. Your ideology seems to blind you to facts, and facts do not cease to exist simply because they are ignored.
http://www.mincava.umn.edu/documents/factoid/factoid.html
Socialization: The process by which children and adults learn from others.
http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/baldwin/classes/soc142/scznDEF.html
I would argue, without the aid of a source, that men are socialized NOT to hit women, while women receive no such socialization. There is a huge stigma against any man who strikes a woman, including labeling as an abuser. This labeling could easily carry over into the criminal justice section of the website.
There is no link between testosterone and aggression, however this is a link between testosterone and status seeking behavior:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1946632,00.html
If women hit men just as frequently as men hit women which the collection of over 500 sources points to:
http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2003-06-22-abuse-usat_x.htm
There must be another explanation for the perception that females receive more injury when hit. It's possible it's a reporting issues, and it's also possible that because of strength differences:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8477683
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/97/5/941
that men simple cause more injury blow for blow.
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