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[StraightDope]

[MuseRider]

1. Oh man

I missed that. I saw the thread when it first came up and watched the video but I never ever would have guessed if I returned to it I would have seen support for what happened. I think I won't revisit it.

[Ecumenist]

2. HUH?? When and where did this happen?

I must have missed this...Can you fill me in??

[Sequoia]

4. Over in GD, about the ULA student getting lasered for not leaving quick enough.

Makes your head spin...really. Some think it's okay, but I guess their loser freepers trying to act like Dems who WON THE ELECTION.

[Skinner]

3. Did you have to start a new thread about it?

You could have told everyone that they disgust you in the relevant thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x5707

I can see it now... We just took back the House and Senate, but we're going to be flaming each other about tasers for the next two weeks.

[StraightDope]

5. Sorry Skinner...

You're right, a new thread was not necessary. But I had to get this off my chest. I'll be taking this over to the Original thread.

[jhrobbins]

6. Of course we will because that is what we do...

we cannot ever be happy, so when there is no one at hand to blast, we blast each other. I really don't like very much about them, but the right does seem to band together a lot more cohesively than we ever do.

[Phredicles]

8. You know liberalism IS all about trying to change the world and

make it a better place, and the first step is recognizing where there's room for improvement. And there is always going to be more diversity of thought in favor of changing things than in supporting some notion of the status quo.

I'll admit, though, that I'm not sure where flaming each other online fits into that.:shrug:

[jhrobbins]

14. Of course, and I have said that this is the very quality...

that the conservatives often turn on us - our openness to consider other points of view and to respect a difference of opinion. They say it is an inability to stick to a position - the 'waffling' argument. This is our strength and our weakness (at least in the court of public opinion). I don't really know the answer to this, but I do think that reasonable people recognize this for what it is - a facile argument to weaken our positions by making it seem to be a fault. It does seem rather odd that some of our 'folk' seem as intolerant as those on the right - we are the group for diversity of opinion, right?

[tnlefty]

9. Because I missed it before, congratulations

and the best of luck in Jan.

[MichiganVote]

10. Voices of reason are few and far between just now.

[crikkett]

11. With all due respect,

I can see it now... We just took back the House and Senate, but we're going to be flaming each other about tasers for the next two weeks.

With all due respect, Skinner, I am thankful to have seen the new thread, I didn't see this story until it was pointed out again and appeared on the Latest page. I have forwarded the original thread to my friends and family mailing lists, so the story will have longer legs.

Now that the House and Senate have been won back, here pops up an issue that is a lot closer to home, in that it pertains to the immediate safety and well-being of our children. Tasers are very dangerous! Police brutality is a real and growing problem! That video was abhorrent! And it only takes enough public outrage and media attention for the University to disarm those cops.

So I thank you for allowing the thread to remain even as you removed the original post, so I could read it again and reply to you when I refreshed the page.

The irony here is that these childrens' parents who are boomers lived through police brutality when they were college kids, themselves. Kent State ring a bell?

I wonder how much of an issue this will be over Thanksgiving.

Crikkett

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

13. ...

"I can see it now... We just took back the House and Senate, but we're going to be flaming each other about tasers for the next two weeks."

See, now, this sort of thing is exactly why wanted the dems to take back the House and the Senate in the first place.

[Bonobo]

7. Thank you!

Taking back this country means a lot more than voting Dems into power.

We need to look in the mirror and find our goodness again. We have lost our humanity as a nation.

We must get back to the basics, human rights, human dignity, compassion, fairness, equality.

Taking back our country means standing up for what is right, and standing against what we know is wrong.

Those policeman were SO wrong that I honestly believe students should have intervened and stopped the torture that they witnessed.

God, Abu Ghraib probably sounded like that!

[crikkett]

12. my dog came running in here to rescue me,

beleive it or not. Then she shivered in my lap until it was over.

[readmoreoften]

15. Your dog is smarter than some people. /nt