Posted on 07/11/2014 3:18:40 PM PDT by PoloSec
the guy was a little out of line .the damned cops were way way way out of line.
/johnny
Ryan was a dumbass. Should he have been arrested? Nah, but maybe Ryan just needs an ass kicking to straighten him out. I bet he reminds the cop pulling him over for speeding that “He pays his salary”
“This country was founded by obnoxious men. Unreasonable men that were considered extremists.”
Best Post Of The Day!
Two hours in a cell and a disorderly conduct charge (that will likely be dismissed) for being a prick. Looks like the free market at work to me!
Monroe County is where Rochester is located. That department is staffed so three cops can have their meal break together.
Did the guy break a law? Probably not. But even though being an a-hole is not a crime, people who do that need to realize that there are sometimes consequences.
Not true.
Your slander of the Founding Father’s as unreasonable and obnoxious is sad.
Three deputies spending their duty time hanging out get pissed because a citizen suggest that they take turns taking a break instead of all taking a break at once is a crime? Judging based simply on the cops overflowing bellies, they've spent considerable time taking donut breaks.
/johnny
The Founding Fathers were in no way unreasonable, nor obnoxious. In fact quite the contrary.
I once got away with a milder form of criticism of police. While seated in a cafe next to two uniformed officers having coffee and donuts, I observed (loud enough for the cops to hear) that their squad cars were parked outside at the curb at expired meters, whereupon one of them said: "That's the privilege of driving a black and white car." I said nothing after that and avoided being maced and arrested.
They unreasonably did not bow down to King George III, and obnoxiously threw snowballs loaded with gravel and stones at his soldiers.
They unreasonably started a war with the most powerful military force on the planet at the time.
They taunted and otherwise treated his soldiers with violence, when the soldiers were just trying to restore order.
King George's order.
Pound sand if you don't like it.
/johnny
Have you read any of the inflammatory rebel literature from the time? They practiced being obnoxious, and turned it into an art form. That, knowing full well the appropriate behavior standards of the day.
You are clueless.
/johnny
Adams was appointed to the Committee of Five with Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Robert R. Livingston and Roger Sherman to draft the Declaration, which was to be ready when Congress voted on independence... The committee in general, and Jefferson in particular, thought Adams should write the document, but Adams persuaded the committee to choose Jefferson and promised to consult with Jefferson personally.[40]
40. From Adams' notes: "Why will you not? You ought to do it." "I will not." "Why?" "Reasons enough." "What can be your reasons?" "Reason first, you are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. Reason second, I am obnoxious, suspected, and unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third, you can write ten times better than I can." "Well," said Jefferson, "if you are decided, I will do as well as I can." "Very well. When you have drawn it up, we will have a meeting.""
-PJ
He states Jefferson was not obnoxious.
And Jefferson did not think him to be obnoxious.
I don’t know of anyone who wants some obnoxious twerp who doesn’t know diddley-squat about their job coming up and deciding that they don’t like to see you having lunch and you’d better disperse and get back to work.
There’s a reason you don’t go poking bears.
The british government thought Adams was so obnoxious that they put a warrant out for his arrest. He was die a traitor's death. You don't get that for perfect Sunday School attendance.
Your Disney version of the founding is far from the mark.
/johnny
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