Marsupialized wrote:
I am getting this tattoo as soon as I get some cash

Since you're obviously going for class, why not get it on your scrotum?

Marsupialized wrote:

I am getting this tattoo as soon as I get some cash

If you get that tattoo, it will surely impress the cops next time you have a run-in with them.

They will then sodomize you with their batons.

sleepkid wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:
I am getting this tattoo as soon as I get some cash

Since you're obviously going for class, why not get it on your scrotum?

I already have this one there, goes across the whole sack...I have to kind of pull the skin out like bat wings or something for you to really see the detail but trust me it's beautiful

Mark Hansen wrote:If you get that tattoo, it will surely impress the cops next time you have a run-in with them.

They will then sodomize you with their batons.

and I will sue them and be a millionaire, this is Chicago...they can't settle brutality cases fast enough here.....bring it on you sick fucking weirdo cops

Cops do a lot of stuff, some good some bad. But at the end of the day a cop is an instrument of state. And in the history of the most important and vital movements of modern American history, namely the labor movement and the civil rights and anti-war movements, cops are goons who bust heads. They are, regardless of their individual politics, there to enforce the status quo and protect property, not people, protesters, or workers.

I also believe that my dad, being a tough guy, wouldn't bother clubbing hippies unless they hit him first.

Whatever the case, he was there acting as a thug for "The Man." That was his job. "My daddy was a super tough copper who never hurt anyone who didn't deserve it." I'd accept that from a ten-year-old, sure.

Regardless of his conduct, he was on the wrong side of history in that moment. If you want to avoid that situation, where it's your job to be on the wrong side, you shouldn't become a cop or join the army--you shouldn't sign over your tough-guy muscles to be an instrument of state enforcement and violence.

This IWW union picketer met some tough cops in Providence this summer. Whoops!

Andrew. wrote:Whatever the case, he was there acting as a thug for "The Man." That was his job. "My daddy was a super tough copper who never hurt anyone who didn't deserve it." I'd accept that from a ten-year-old, sure.

Well, first of all, fuck you.

Secondly, for someone that didn't have much education and a very rough childhood it was seen as a way to make a living, that's about it.

He didn't choose to be "on the wrong side of history", and I know for a fact that he never inflicted any harm on anyone unless he was first attacked.

I'm sure you are just a stellar human who has done nothing but bettered humanity, so I will submit to your excellence, and your father's wonderful contributions to society.

zom-zom wrote:

Andrew. wrote:Whatever the case, he was there acting as a thug for "The Man." That was his job. "My daddy was a super tough copper who never hurt anyone who didn't deserve it." I'd accept that from a ten-year-old, sure.

Well, first of all, fuck you.

Secondly, for someone that didn't have much education and a very rough childhood it was seen as a way to make a living, that's about it.

He didn't choose to be "on the wrong side of history", and I know for a fact that he never inflicted any harm on anyone unless he was first attacked.

I'm sure you are just a stellar human who has done nothing but bettered humanity, so I will submit to your excellence, and your father's wonderful contributions to society.

As much as I can sympathize with the lefty position, I really hate it the left demonizes and dehumanizes cops and soldiers etc., even, and especially those cops and soldiers who they know nothing about.

To especially say something it about the father of someone here, in the context in which he was discussing it, is uncalled for.

If you know nothing about someone or their personal motivations, and then to personalize it in the way you did Andrew, is wrong.

zom-zom wrote:Not all the cops were busting heads, my dad told me it was all he could do to avoid getting beaned by hippie-tossed bricks.

just saw a documentary this past weekend that said that there was a group (the yippies, maybe) that actively set out to incite a riot, to force the cops to get violent, so they could expose the cops' abuse of their power. fucking assholes, eh?

this doc also said that while the goal was to show the cops in a bad light, the actual immediate effect was that people watching it on tv saw hippies causing violence. and people came away from it thinking hippies were assholes.

I wonder how accurate all their assertions are/were.

glad to hear your dad wasn't out to crack skulls.

My dad wanted to stay home.

Marsupialized wrote:I'd like to see some cops getting hit in the head with bricks, anyone have any pictures or videos they can post?

How about one from your favorite city?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h91Awl4vK_8

scott wrote:

zom-zom wrote:Not all the cops were busting heads, my dad told me it was all he could do to avoid getting beaned by hippie-tossed bricks.

just saw a documentary this past weekend that said that there was a group (the yippies, maybe) that actively set out to incite a riot, to force the cops to get violent, so they could expose the cops' abuse of their power. fucking assholes, eh?

this doc also said that while the goal was to show the cops in a bad light, the actual immediate effect was that people watching it on tv saw hippies causing violence. and people came away from it thinking hippies were assholes.

This was almost certainly the Weather Underground or the SDS. I also think this was more a "Days Of Rage" thing. I believe that happened in Chicago in 1969.