DEATH IN ATLANTA AND GENDER SAMENESS IN THE HAPPY LAND OF MAKEBELIEVE (Don Feder Alert)

DonFeder.com ^ | 03/17/05 | Don Feder

[uncitizen]

Officers don’t have to be bruisers, we’re told. After all, cops have guns, don’t they?

Yeah. Until some convict takes it away from them.

[radiohead]

It wasn't her fault that she was sent to do a man's job and couldn't do it.

And not her fault that the surveillence system that was set up to protect her (and the transported suspects, I assume), wasn't even being monitored.

Plenty of blame to go around.

[rave123]

Unfortunately many of the posters on this board are bent on forgiving the man that did the crime to blame the woman just to try and make a point that does not apply in this case.

[rave123]

What are you mumbling about? Like I said, I would be shocked if "any one" could have succeeded in this scenario. If your case was true they would do it the same way and just employee a man to body guard him, but they didn't. Notice how these males have him shackled and handcuffed and have more than one person on him?
Why, because even an idiot can see it made no sense to have only one person guarding this guy,male or female.

[MonroeDNA]

democrat women should only be selected to guard men.

[MEGoody]

The gender of the cop is beside the point. The point is that violent offenders should be shackled hand and foot when they are outside their jail cells.

[Republic If You Can Keep It]

And not her fault that the surveillence system that was set up to protect her (and the transported suspects, I assume), wasn't even being monitored. Plenty of blame to go around.

Not at all.

The central fact is that 3 people are dead because a woman couldn't do a man's job.

Let's not kid ourselves.

[Republic If You Can Keep It]

And it is not simple it is very complex

What's complex about a tiny pixie of a woman who has no business in law enforcement having her gun taken away by a strong man?

I find that very easy to understand. (As would the 3 dead people).

If there had been 2 or 3 pixies he would have overpowered them all at the same time.

Pretty simple stuff.

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

Too many of us have been complacent for too long. We went along with the "PC" myth because we felt insufficient to confront it and feared reprisals for voicing unpopular opinion.

"The Emporer wasn't naked, he just wasn't wearing any clothes". As long PC didn't threaten (directly) our comfort zone, we just shook our heads and went on with our lives.

I sense a real difference today. Common sense is making a slow comeback. http://www.bikemenu.com/photos/famous/Andy%20Griffith%20&%20Barney%20Fife01.jpg

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

RE: post #49

I tried to post a picture link to Barney Fife photo. I'm obviously pretty lousy at it. The photo makes me think of the law enforcement situation in Atlanta.

[Nightshift]

Very good article. Thanks for posting

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

BTTT

[Nightshift]

My wife showed me this link to help me get started with doing things like that. I put in my bookmarks. Hope this helps.

(HTML Bootcamp (or Wow, how did they do that?))

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

Thanks for the link. I will try again here:

Barney: "Come on Andy, Fulton County needs our help".

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

Bummer. I'll keep practicing.

[Paloma_55]

To post a picture, you type a left <, then img, space, src="the url" then a right >

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

Thanks. I'm learning.

BTTT

[SamAdams76]

In the Happy Land of Make-Believe, we like to pretend that men and women are interchangeable – physically as well as psychologically.

I used to think that too. Until I went to bed with one. Boy, was I surprised! Now I live in the even Happier Land of Reality.

[Bob]

Thats right she is now right back with her old secretarial job, only now she is earning a Firefighters pay, and the Company Captain is glad to see her there.

He's probably feeling fortunate that the only cost is the money for the pay difference and not the lives of her or his other firefighters.

[Uncle Meat]

I believe now the minimum height for an NYPD recruit is 5'2'' for females...to see a cop that size, loaded down with all the gear they carry...it's, at best, humorous..

Reminds me of the little black chick with the high pitched ,squeaky voice in those Police Academy movies.