I thought this was to be expected.
When one is a slave, isn't the master responsible for everything?
I thought so.
Posted on 04/03/2006 4:55:15 AM PDT by Quilla
Ronald Reagan used to say, “There you go again.” The Gipper was known for using that phrase every time someone distorted the truth. He probably never gave a thought to Cynthia McKinney, but he was familiar with her type of behavior.
Sadly, we live in convoluted times, an era it which it has become commonplace to see people at all levels of society twist the facts like saltwater taffy. Cynthia McKinney, the Georgia congresswoman who hauled off and slugged a Capitol Police officer, said the officer started the incident by “inappropriately touching and stopping” her after she walked past a security checkpoint at a House office building.
“Let me be clear. This whole incident was instigated by the inappropriate touching and stopping of me, a female black (emphasis added) congresswoman,” McKinney said.
Are you as tired as I am of hearing people use their race, gender, religion, immigration status, ad nauseam as a get-out-of-jail card every time they break the law? It’s quite evident that we have fostered a culture of spoiled brats who have learned how to absolve themselves of any responsibility for their illegal, immoral and unethical behavior.
When the police are on the lookout for a black male, driving a grey van, they’re told not to stop vehicles merely because a black male is driving a grey van. You see, that would be “profiling.” That spawned another phrase known as, “driving while black.” Now we have illegal immigrants, who have quickly learned how to alibi their way out of any punishment for breaking our laws by using the phrase, “walking while brown.”
The fact that Ms. McKinney was not wearing her identifying lapel pin, as is required, when she tried to skirt the checkpoint, is being spun as, not her fault, but the officer’s fault for not recognizing her. (I wonder if McKinney routinely assaults anyone who doesn’t recognize her.)
As is the case in most of these attempts to cloud the issue and put certain people above the law, she was joined at a news conference by a couple of celebrities. Harry Belafonte and Danny Glover, who usually only make appearances at prisons to call for an end to capital punishment when a black murderer is scheduled for execution, said they were there to “support our sister.” They were, of course, there to politicize another incident involving law-breaking.
Next, there was the other spectacle we’ve become used to: the gunslingers, known as defense attorneys, prepared to shoot down any attempt to put blame where it belongs. James W. Myart Jr., one of McKinney’s lawyers, said he will be seeking an investigation against the officer.
“Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, like thousands of average Americans across this country, is, too, a victim of the excessive use of force by law enforcement officials because of how she looks and the color of her skin,” he said.
(Excuse me while I put my finger down my throat.)
The fact is several witnesses have said the officer involved asked McKinney to stop three times. When she refused, he placed a hand on her shoulder, at which time she whirled around and struck him on the chest with her cell phone. My question is this: why wasn’t she thrown to the ground and handcuffed like anyone else would be if they assaulted an officer refusing to identify herself?
This ill-tempered, bigoted woman has already been given preferential treatment based on her sex, her color and her title – a title that she never misses an opportunity to abuse. A few years ago McKinney complained about being questioned by “white people” when she tried to force her way into the White House without being stopped.
How many white members of Congress could get away with saying they don’t like being questioned by “black people”?
A few years ago 2 officers were killed by a gunman who got into the Capital Building. We live in an age of terrorism and the nation’s capital is one of the most favored targets of our enemies. Inasmuch as these officers are risking life and limb to protect the nation’s lawmakers, it shouldn’t be too much to ask that the solons help out by wearing proper ID. If that officer did anything wrong, it was his reluctance to make an arrest when a crime was committed, not only in his presence, but directly against him.
Ms. McKinney should have been peering out of a jail cell 10 minutes after she committed what amounts to an assault with a weapon. Ironically, she’s complaining about being treated poorly because of her race. It’s her race that kept her from being forced to don a striped wardrobe.
"All right, men, I'll be in command here" said the captain. Tex replied "Show yer cerdentials!"
"My bars are my credentials!"
"OK boys, take his .45!" Tex ordered, and they did. The captain was furious and tried to file charges on Tex. He was reminded that he couldn't charge a corporal for executing orders.
That ain't no lady!
I thought this was to be expected.
When one is a slave, isn't the master responsible for everything?
I thought so.
Have they released the Video yet?
I do believe that would shut this public servant up.
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Bob Weir wrote this??? |
TNS!
And I had a friend that got an ARCOM for putting a general in the front leaning rest position!
You're right, they are employees and nobody should walk around security, period.
I ws joking with my friends that by the time this was over the OFFICER would be in jail and sued. Watch what they do.
I wonder if she had seen the officer was black if she would have punched him, knowing she couldn't play the race card?
I say let everybody in to Congress, proper id or not. Maybe we'll get lucky.
Even if he had been black she would have played the race card.
"That black man; a pawn in the white mans game to keep me, a black, progressive, woman, congressperson, is selling out his race. He's a shame to his skin and is as racist as any white man for working with them!!!"
I blame Lyndon Johnson.
Woe to the person who accidentally punched in the wrong pin number more than twice in a row. You would all of a sudden have four or five young Air Force security police officers pointing weapons at you, and you would be commanded to put your hands in the air and not move. In some instances, they would make you get face down on the ground (eating dirt), or up against a chain link fence. This procedure was fondly known as getting "jacked up", and yes, it happened to me once.
We used to get quite a hoot out of it when it would happen to one of the more obnoxious department honchos, because the entire complex would go on lockdown, and you could see the hapless "jackee" on the security monitors all over the place.
While in Basic Training, at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, we were on our first bivouwac. The Deputy Commander of the Post had just come from the O Club, and decided to check on his troops. When he was told to advance and be recognized, the guard didn't have the slightest idea who he was, and he had no ID on his person. He sputtered for a while, and the guard said, 'Well, General or Catpain or Sergeant, you're going to go for a walk with me.' The guard had just changed, and the good general walked ahead of the private for nearly two hours.
Our CO recognized the troop at an assembly the next day, and told us he had held a US Army type general at gunpoint for two hours the night before.
Do you watch 24? The head of CTU fell for a line his crackho sister tossed on the phone, then got beat up by her boyfriend and his wallet taken when he met her. Then the boyfriend tried to sell his Access Card to Chechyn Terrorists, who promptly put a bullet in the boyfriend's and the sister's heads and took the card for free. Then, because the director was too embarassed to report losing his card, the terrorists got into CTU and released a cylinder of VX nerve gas killing over 100 people. The director dies of it too while doing a task to redeem himself.
My point is, little pins are not a form of positive ID, and too many things can happen to them leading to them getting into the wrong hands.
Bob Weir?
If it was you, you would have been arrested by now.
This is why I stated they need to use ID's not pins, just like all the other federal employees in DC.
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