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NYPD right to allow religious attire
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| August 5, 2004
Posted on 08/05/2004 12:33:25 PM PDT by presidio9
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
Yeah Sihks occasionally reltaliate. But it's usually short term and against the actual transgressor.
Unlike some groups (Muslims and Irish spring to mind) they don't nurse pointless grudges for centuries.
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posted on
08/05/2004 2:48:20 PM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
("Despise not the jester. Often he is the only one speaking the truth")
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To: N. Theknow
I live about an hour west of Albany, NY (yes, the Albany where they arrested two terrorist suspects today). If I were pulled over for, say speeding, and a cop approached my car wearing a turban I'd freak out! We must remember that this is the United States of America.
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posted on
08/05/2004 2:56:56 PM PDT
by
maxwellp
(Throw the U.N. in the garbage where it belongs.)
To: presidio9
Sikhs are not Muslims.
It is my understanding that Muslims hate the Sikhs.
(Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.)
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posted on
08/05/2004 3:01:39 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
If a rag head stops me i would think it was a terrorist. and if I was afraid I might kill him. There is a good reason uniformed officers should be easily recognizable.Are you saying if a Sikh police officer stopped you, you'd shoot him because you were scared of his turban?
I'm not sure whether to call you a punk or a wannabe cop-killer.
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posted on
08/05/2004 3:16:35 PM PDT
by
AM2000
To: AM2000
I am saying if all you could see was a turban why would I
think it was a police officer.
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posted on
08/05/2004 3:19:07 PM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(Liberals are like catfish ( all mouth and no brains )(bottom feeders))
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
I am saying if all you could see was a turban why would I think it was a police officer.If all you can see is a turban? Are you by any chance imagining a Sikh cop as naked underneath the neck?
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posted on
08/05/2004 3:21:34 PM PDT
by
AM2000
To: AM2000
"I'm not sure whether to call you a punk or a wannabe cop-killer."
I am neither and I have never had anything but respect
from any police officer.
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posted on
08/05/2004 3:21:43 PM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(Liberals are like catfish ( all mouth and no brains )(bottom feeders))
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
I am neither and I have never had anything but respect from any police officer."from"? You can get respect from someone and still not respect them - what's your point?
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posted on
08/05/2004 3:24:59 PM PDT
by
AM2000
To: AM2000
I see from your profile you post a lot about yourself.
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posted on
08/05/2004 3:27:19 PM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(Liberals are like catfish ( all mouth and no brains )(bottom feeders))
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
I see from your profile you post a lot about yourself.Do you always like to change the subject when you get uncomfortable? :)
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posted on
08/05/2004 3:28:36 PM PDT
by
AM2000
To: Lion Den Dan
If these Turban Top Cops can wear Turbans, why can't I display my Ten Commandments plaque in my Federal Government office or wear my Republican Pachyderm pen on my shirt? Only if it's a requirement of your religion. It's not about free expression. A cop on duty or in uniform does not have free expression. It's about honoring religious requirements.
It can go too far, but this does not. Even if the Sikh turban reminds you of Osama's get-up. It's really not the same design.
Sikhs are in general good citizens, and policeman is the sort of job that traditionally fits in with their culture, believe it or not.
Great Britain had Sikh policemen in turban way before the age of PC, and Sikh soldiers in turban even before that.
Diversity is only bad when made a moral absolute, trumping all else.
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posted on
08/05/2004 3:30:09 PM PDT
by
Salman
To: AM2000
Nope I just don't like or respect people from India.
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posted on
08/05/2004 3:31:12 PM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(Liberals are like catfish ( all mouth and no brains )(bottom feeders))
To: wideminded
I understand that Sikhs are also required by their religion to carry a dagger called a kirpan. Will NYPD regulations permit this also? Why not? Though there is a blunt plastic "airplane" version that is religiously acceptable.
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posted on
08/05/2004 3:32:55 PM PDT
by
Salman
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
Nope I just don't like or respect people from India.So if a Sikh police officer stopped you, you would not show him any respect. Correct? Would you freak out at the sight of his scary (shudder) turban and shoot him? Or would you just run back into the woods whence you came?
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posted on
08/05/2004 3:33:06 PM PDT
by
AM2000
To: RightWingAtheist
More recently, two million of them helped fight the Axis... Right on! :)
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posted on
08/05/2004 3:38:21 PM PDT
by
Salman
To: AM2000
A police officer in uniform should be recognizable as an
officer.
Here in Texas a highway officer in a marked car must also
wear his uniform hat so he can be easily recognized.
I will let you have the last word.
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posted on
08/05/2004 3:39:30 PM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(Liberals are like catfish ( all mouth and no brains )(bottom feeders))
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
Texas isn't the last word on how a police officer should appear. If you're in a jurisdiction where police officers wear turbans and are recognized as police officers by their uniform and badge, then you're required to accept the fact that they're police officers. You may not shoot at them. You may not hit them. And more importantly, you may not look at their turban and squeal like a little girl.
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posted on
08/05/2004 3:41:18 PM PDT
by
AM2000
To: presidio9
Not Good - NOT GOOD!
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posted on
08/05/2004 3:55:44 PM PDT
by
paleocon patriarch
(Rule One: -"The cover-up is worse than the event." Rule Two: "No one ever remembers the first rule.)
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
What religion do you belong to? Cause whatever it is, I can point to worse stuff by your coreligionists. If you're an atheist, I can point to stuff for that too, starting with Joe Stalin.
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posted on
08/05/2004 4:51:52 PM PDT
by
A.J.Armitage
(http://calvinist-libertarians.blogspot.com/)
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