[TheForge] local codes OT OT

[jerry_smith at anvilsandinkstudios.com]

I enjoy the Castle Doctrine, because thw deputies are always at least 20 minutes away. But then again our worse crime is speeding.

Jerry


--- On Fri, 1/16/09, Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net> wrote:

> From: Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net>
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] local codes OT OT
> To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Friday, January 16, 2009, 6:44 PM
> Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
> 
> >> 	CA has so changed since 76.  Couldn't pay me
> to live there anymore - 
> >> though it can be pleasant enough to visit.
> > It's a highly variable state with very different
> political and social 
> > climes in different locations.
> 
> 	I'm sure, but overall it is the land of the clueless
> where anything 
> even remotely political is concerned.  When I lived there
> Orange County 
> was the redneck capital of the universe.  No no mo'.
> 
> >> 	Of course it was.  Does LE get any more corrupt
> than in the Golden State?
> > Sure...this was very minor corruption really..way
> nastier elsewhere.
> 
> 	LA cops are the worst except maybe for Chicago.  NYC are
> pretty bad 
> too, and of course NJ are near and dear to my heart.
> 
> >    Those people have no souls - in fact they
> >> are not even human, all appearances to the
> contrary notwithstanding. 
> >> I'd call them reptiles, but the insult to
> reptiles would be unconscionable.
> > Bah...I disagree. Sure, some of them qualify, but most
> cops are OK and 
> > some are excellent human beings. They are not
> responsible for bad law 
> > and policies...that's a separate set of problems
> they take flack for.
> 
> 	I agree, but their actions smack of "I'm only
> following orders" - which 
> is one of the great cop outs of all time.
> 
> > They deal with the azzholes for us, day in and day
> out. I'm grateful for 
> > that.
> 
> 	I didn't ask them to take the job.
> 
> > It can't help but sour their outlook. One tends to
> become like the 
> > people you are around to some degree. They have to
> fight that tendency 
> > constantly.
> 
> 	Agreed.  One of the most miserable jobs on the planet,
> largely because 
> of all the shyte law they are required to enforce.  Could
> be changed, 
> but I'd not hold my breath waiting.
> 
> > Fact is, most of us need them.
> 
> 	Only because most of us have abdicated responsibility for
> our own lives 
> at the most fundamental levels.  They do a lot of good
> stuff, but the 
> bad that is done undoes all of that.
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