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Old 08-07-2012, 01:59 AM   #21
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I love how they state what the police/swat are carrying as if someday theyre gonna charge a building with ice cream scoopers and bananas.
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Old 08-07-2012, 08:54 AM   #22
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I love how they state what the police/swat are carrying as if someday theyre gonna charge a building with ice cream scoopers and bananas.
Pretty much - I always figure they have a word goal and that crap is in there to fill space. It's no mystery what pretty much every police agency in America carries.
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Old 08-07-2012, 09:23 AM   #23
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Pretty much - I always figure they have a word goal and that crap is in there to fill space. It's no mystery what pretty much every police agency in America carries.
Usually the story gets cut down, rather than having filler added
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Old 08-07-2012, 09:58 AM   #24
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Usually the story gets cut down, rather than having filler added
Then I'd hate to see the shit they cut if they had to leave that kind of drivel.
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Old 08-07-2012, 01:22 PM   #25
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Then I'd hate to see the shit they cut if they had to leave that kind of drivel.
Seems like these days they prefer to hire creative writers, rather than journalists. I once wrote a piece that was 250 words, with what I thought was virtually no extraneous wording. Editor cut it to 200, without breaking a sweat.
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Old 08-07-2012, 03:28 PM   #26
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European settlers all but exterminated an entire race systematically and with the use of small pox as a weapon and then enslaved another race, well beyond the time that all other civilized countries had determined that slavery was immoral and outlawed it, in order to build their country.

Thats just as bad or worse than anything those across the pond have done.
So: People from Europe did what people from Europe had long since quit doing?
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European settlers all but exterminated an entire race systematically and with the use of small pox as a weapon and then enslaved another race, well beyond the time that all other civilized countries had determined that slavery was immoral and outlawed it, in order to build their country.

Thats just as bad or worse than anything those across the pond have done.
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So: People from Europe did what people from Europe had long since quit doing?
It's been done countless times throughout history, even modern history... People act like Americans invented slavery and genocide...
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It's been done countless times throughout history, even modern history... People act like Americans invented slavery and genocide...
We didn't invent slavery and genocide....but we perfected the art of DOING it while disquising it in really poshed up words....

For example...

The man who wrote "We hold these truths to be self evident...that all men are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights...." owned slaves.

He also expressed his interest in killing everyone west of the Mississippi river and stealing their land not as a genocide....but as a "Manifest Destiny."

See?

The word you're looking for is HYPOCRISY....Americans have MASTERED it.

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Old 08-07-2012, 05:21 PM   #29
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We didn't invent slavery and genocide....but we perfected the art of DOING it while disquising it in really poshed up words....

For example...

The man who wrote "We hold these truths to be self evident...that all men are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights...." owned slaves.

He also expressed his interest in killing everyone west of the Mississippi river and stealing their land not as a genocide....but as a "Manifest Destiny."

See?

The word you're looking for is HYPOCRISY....Americans have MASTERED it.
You should watch the "Truth" video OSP posted.

I'd be curious to know your thoughts on it.

Edit: Just saw you made it longer than I had remembered.
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Old 08-08-2012, 04:31 PM   #30
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I love how they state what the police/swat are carrying as if someday theyre gonna charge a building with ice cream scoopers and bananas.
Ice cream scoopers and bananas are what civilians are allowed to use for self-defense.

And who has a time to be a neo-nazi? Especially in Wisconsin where they have 3 black people per well I think they just have 3 black people.
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