corianderstem
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Fuck da Police was also posted.
Well, damn! color me wrong.
Fuck da Police was also posted.
corianderstem said:I think there was only one gangsta rap reference, as Friggin' Cobbler was clearly naming a Pearl Jam song with a chorus of "glorified version of a pellet gun."
I went to speak at a career day at a high school last fall. One of the teachers said to me "too bad you're not a criminal law lawyer, I could point out a few good clients for you here."
On the other hand...he's in eighth grade.
"To protect and serve"
Very sad.
I'm wondering if this is could be a case of suicide by police?
Just find the whole thing strange. But this is coming from someone who doesn't get the fascination with any sort of gun in general, so...
Finding the whole thing strange is generally a sign of sanity and reasonable IQ, I reckon. It's a stupid male machismo thing. Something to do with dick sizes, or so rumour has it.
Seemingly researchers have developed a mathematical formula to explain this:
Size of gun collection = 1000* (1/IQ X 1/Dick size)
As for the American gun nuts, my advice to them is, grow the fuck up.
It's quite a culture shock for me reading that, because, in general, police in Ireland aren't even armed at all, apart from carrying extendable batons and pepper spray.
A gun is not something I expect to see or am particularly comfortable seeing when I'm just walking through the CBD or going to a cafe.
The more you talk about your area of the world, the more you make me want to move there.
That sounds like a reasonable setup to me-you have the weapons there just in case the need arises, but you don't flash them all over the place with some sort of stupid bravado.
Maybe "Fuck the Police" is an over the top reaction (great track that it is. Rap back then meant something. It might have meant something hateful, but you couldn't ignore its visceral energy. But I digress), but Americans seem to tolerate a level of use of extreme force by police that simply would not be accepted in Europe.
In Ireland about 12 years ago, a man with known psychiatric issues was shot dead by a police marksman after a siege lasting a few hours. He had been brandishing a shotgun in a threatening manner around his house, shouting at neighbours, that type of thing. Subsequently, there was a big public outcry and in reaction the government announced a tribunal of investigation (more or less like a grand jury process). While no police were charged or convicted with any crime (in my opinion, correctly), they and their superiors had to go through a very stressful process of testifying, accounting for their actions, facing tough questions from legal representatives of the deceased's family, intense media scrutiny, that type of thing - a process which, IIRC, went on for months and months.
Similarly, in the UK, when a drunken barrister with personal issues was shot dead by police in a posh suburb near central London a few years back, there was an inquest which examined in forensic detail the actions of the individual police officers concerned on that fateful day.
The very fact that I remember the above two incidents in reasonable detail, one from 12 years ago, the other from around 4 years ago, shows just how rare such events are, fortunately, on this side of the pond. Not like in the US where if you are some kid with a few issues and you get some crazy idea in your head one day and you go into a shop and buy a gun (with ease) and brandish it around but don't actually discharge it or fire it at anyone, your life can be snuffed out in an instant and the media will talk about it for about a day and then move on to something else. Because you don't matter. You're a statistic.
Maybe "Fuck the Police" is an over-the-top reaction. But I will never accept that cops shooting 14 year olds in the head, for whatever reason, is a right or normal part of a civilised society. And if youse won't hear it from this Dublin knacker, then listen to the words of wisdom from another Dublin knacker, our hero Bano, because he pretty much said the same thing I'm saying, maybe in more poetic fashion, in that (in)famous rant on the Elevation tour.
Well, I will now paint the other side of the story!
It rains. All the time. If it isn't raining, the skies above are usually grey and pregnant with rain. Sometimes the sun peaks through a gap between the clouds and lo, the citizens rejoice. So then you cheer up for a while, things seem to get better. Then it starts raining again. Feck!
I've seen junkies get into vicious fights on trams in Dublin city centre in broad daylight.
At the height of an economic boom, when, it seemed, everyone had a great job, everyone had a good car (usually a high end German marque) everyone was buying property, more and more property, sure you can't lose on property, everyone was hatching some scheme to create even more fake wealth from property, everyone was going on holidays three times a year - if you didn't take at least three holidays a year, you were a loser - Christ, people were flying to New York for the weekend just to buy clothes - at the height of all this madness, in one year (2005) 20 young men aged between 15-25 in one working class suburb of Dublin killed themselves.
It's different now, of course. The suicide virus has spread to the middle classes - even to the formerly wealthy. Rumour has it a troubled ex-billionaire property developer was admitted to a psychiatric hospital after being threatened by suppliers he couldn't pay any more. Rumour has it some of the former merchant princes are gibbering like wrecks in mansions and plushy pads in the Irish Riveria of Dalkey and Killiney and Foxrock. Rumour has it that other, more together souls, have transferred funds to Switzerland, Lichtenstein and Panama. Anything to get it out of reach of the taxman and his grasp.
Ireland ain't no Shangri-La. If you can tolerate a bit of aul rain, it can be a great place to live - at it's best one of the best places in the world. But it can be bloody fecking awful also.
Indeed. They basically dress like accountants and only occasionally need to point to the shoulder bulge.
One point you missed in the new article is that the boy wasn't shot in the head (if that gives you any consolation). The head wound was from him falling. He was shot twice in the body. I think that's a little more reasonable
You'd be in for quite a surprise if you came to the U.S., then. There are many places where it's perfectly legal for people to carry guns into restaurants, bars (which always comforts me, the thought of drunk people with guns), public transportation, public parks, etc.
Why? Hell if I know.
Maybe "Fuck the Police" is an over the top reaction (great track that it is. Rap back then meant something. It might have meant something hateful, but you couldn't ignore its visceral energy. But I digress), but Americans seem to tolerate a level of use of extreme force by police that simply would not be accepted in Europe.
In Ireland about 12 years ago, a man with known psychiatric issues was shot dead by a police marksman after a siege lasting a few hours. He had been brandishing a shotgun in a threatening manner around his house, shouting at neighbours, that type of thing. Subsequently, there was a big public outcry and in reaction the government announced a tribunal of investigation (more or less like a grand jury process). While no police were charged or convicted with any crime (in my opinion, correctly), they and their superiors had to go through a very stressful process of testifying, accounting for their actions, facing tough questions from legal representatives of the deceased's family, intense media scrutiny, that type of thing - a process which, IIRC, went on for months and months.
Similarly, in the UK, when a drunken barrister with personal issues was shot dead by police in a posh suburb near central London a few years back, there was an inquest which examined in forensic detail the actions of the individual police officers concerned on that fateful day.
The very fact that I remember the above two incidents in reasonable detail, one from 12 years ago, the other from around 4 years ago, shows just how rare such events are, fortunately, on this side of the pond. Not like in the US where if you are some kid with a few issues and you get some crazy idea in your head one day and you go into a shop and buy a gun (with ease) and brandish it around but don't actually discharge it or fire it at anyone, your life can be snuffed out in an instant and the media will talk about it for about a day and then move on to something else. Because you don't matter. You're a statistic.
Maybe "Fuck the Police" is an over-the-top reaction. But I will never accept that cops shooting 14 year olds in the head, for whatever reason, is a right or normal part of a civilised society. And if youse won't hear it from this Dublin knacker, then listen to the words of wisdom from another Dublin knacker, our hero Bano, because he pretty much said the same thing I'm saying, maybe in more poetic fashion, in that (in)famous rant on the Elevation tour.
One point you missed in the new article is that the boy wasn't shot in the head (if that gives you any consolation). The head wound was from him falling. He was shot twice in the body. I think that's a little more reasonable
Then she flipped through three close-up photos she took of bullet wounds in her son's body, including one in the back of his head.