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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 05:16 PM Original message |
What is it that makes the police want to hurt the 99%? |
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The Velveteen Ocelot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
1. Authoritarian assholery. |
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nc4bo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 05:18 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. and they have their orders. |
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ret5hd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 05:18 PM Response to Original message |
2. sadistic control freaks just sometimes do that. |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 05:20 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. I'm trying to figure out how an entire County's cops can be made to |
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ret5hd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 05:25 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. The same way an entire towns white men can be made to lynch someone. |
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Cronus Protagonist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 05:18 PM Response to Original message |
3. They don't hate us at all |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 05:23 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. the cops may be thugs as you say, but what about Deanna Santana and the Mayor? |
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Cronus Protagonist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 06:48 PM Response to Reply #9 |
32. Psychopathology? |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 05:22 PM Response to Original message |
6. They've been given permission to |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 05:22 PM Response to Original message |
7. The desire to shoot somebody legally. |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 05:22 PM Response to Original message |
8. There is an old psychological test where someone off the street is asked to, using |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 05:29 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. I've heard about that experiment and not everyone did that |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 05:35 PM Response to Reply #11 |
18. Mob mentality, definitely. Exacerbated by most of them being from out of town. |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 05:33 PM Response to Reply #8 |
17. The Milgram experiment |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 05:30 PM Response to Original message |
12. the mentality of kapos -- they think they will be "spared" when the shtf, |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 05:36 PM Response to Reply #12 |
19. Do you think they're all aware of what's really going on with the 1% |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 05:46 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Not aware at all -- maybe some occasional Fox news permeates the weekend beer busts, etc |
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Tom Ripley (418 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 06:21 PM Response to Reply #12 |
29. +1 |
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notadmblnd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
13. because they've been granted a few of the privileges of the elite |
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tularetom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 05:43 PM Response to Reply #13 |
20. You nailed it - I have had 2 cops in my family |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
14. because that's the personality type that is attracted to the job |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 05:32 PM Response to Original message |
15. Paymasters. They work for corporate paymasters and will do their |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 05:33 PM Response to Original message |
16. It's not the 99%, most simply have authority and power issues. |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 05:44 PM Response to Original message |
21. Here is another question: What makes them and the government forces in other countries different? |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 05:51 PM Response to Reply #21 |
25. I've been looking in that national mirror my entire adult life |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 05:58 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. The PTB, the elites, corporations or whatever you want to call it have mastered propaganda tactics. |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 05:47 PM Response to Original message |
23. What makes a bully a bully? nt |
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justiceischeap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 05:49 PM Response to Original message |
24. Most folks that are cops are a different breed of people |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 06:01 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. It was like he couldn't resist attacking a group. Like getting points in a video game |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 07:32 PM Response to Reply #28 |
34. Yep. They are predators |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 05:56 PM Response to Original message |
26. I can't help thinking Olsen was a target because he was wearing |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 06:46 PM Response to Reply #26 |
31. BINGO. He was specifically targeted because they saw him as a traitor. |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 06:36 PM Response to Original message |
30. Police are, above all else, dyed-in-the-wool authoritarians. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 07:10 PM Response to Original message |
33. They are sadistic macho-men that get off from hurting others. |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
35. Their bosses - the 1%. nt |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 07:42 PM Response to Original message |
36. Legal Bullies ... that's what they are and that's how they act. |
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jtuck004 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 07:50 PM Response to Original message |
37. Nothing new. They've been hurting people like this for a long time, but |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 08:00 PM Response to Original message |
38. We can't just accept this as something we take for granted |
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