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	<title>Comments on: Media Plays &#8216;Make-Up Artist&#8217; for Officer Johannes Mehserle (Oscar Grant’s Killer)</title>
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		<title>By: sonia</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/media-plays-make-up-artist-for-officer-johannes-mehserle-oscar-grant%e2%80%99s-killer/#comment-43367</link>
		<dc:creator>sonia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>and sorry-

&quot;Western Civilization is inherently murderous, psychopathic and, inevitably, genocidal&quot;

that&#039;s just true.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>and sorry-</p>
<p>&#8220;Western Civilization is inherently murderous, psychopathic and, inevitably, genocidal&#8221;</p>
<p>that&#8217;s just true.</p>
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		<title>By: sonia</title>
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		<dc:creator>sonia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>1. this is a great article, but it portrays Oscar Grant being peacable during the arrest. that&#039;s not true. what happened was that he and his friends got in a fight on the BART train. okay, that stuff happens, especially on Dec 31, especially in cities like Oakland. and Grant was a kid, basically. then officers responded, which was right, and what they should have done was diffused the situation, escorted the kids off the train and seen that they got home. people get rowdy partying Dec. 31, period.

2. if you watch the video, you see Grant responding with attitude to the officers. good for him. the way black people are treated as automatic criminals is not right. it&#039;s clear that the police overreacted, and changed a BART train scuffle into a public murder scene.

3. Johannes Mehserle did not intend to taser Grant. watch the video. neither of the officers reacts with surprise when the gun goes off. you&#039;d have a reaction to accidentally killing someone you meant to taser. but, nothing. he does, briefly, look around at the cameras aimed at him, as if mentally recording who saw him do it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1. this is a great article, but it portrays Oscar Grant being peacable during the arrest. that&#8217;s not true. what happened was that he and his friends got in a fight on the BART train. okay, that stuff happens, especially on Dec 31, especially in cities like Oakland. and Grant was a kid, basically. then officers responded, which was right, and what they should have done was diffused the situation, escorted the kids off the train and seen that they got home. people get rowdy partying Dec. 31, period.</p>
<p>2. if you watch the video, you see Grant responding with attitude to the officers. good for him. the way black people are treated as automatic criminals is not right. it&#8217;s clear that the police overreacted, and changed a BART train scuffle into a public murder scene.</p>
<p>3. Johannes Mehserle did not intend to taser Grant. watch the video. neither of the officers reacts with surprise when the gun goes off. you&#8217;d have a reaction to accidentally killing someone you meant to taser. but, nothing. he does, briefly, look around at the cameras aimed at him, as if mentally recording who saw him do it.</p>
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		<title>By: Hue Longer</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hue Longer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Not funny &quot;ha ha&quot; but yeah, Ben

The idea that cops like Sweetlips put forth about them sacrificing is complete delusion.  Are they suggesting that they gave up being CEO of a major corp to become unappreciated &quot;heroes&quot;?  No one likes to feel like a coward, it&#039;s why so many who join the military convince themselves it was due to sacrifice as opposed to a fear of flipping burgers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not funny &#8220;ha ha&#8221; but yeah, Ben</p>
<p>The idea that cops like Sweetlips put forth about them sacrificing is complete delusion.  Are they suggesting that they gave up being CEO of a major corp to become unappreciated &#8220;heroes&#8221;?  No one likes to feel like a coward, it&#8217;s why so many who join the military convince themselves it was due to sacrifice as opposed to a fear of flipping burgers.</p>
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		<title>By: Ben</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s funny seeing all these people defending others who do atrocious things as &quot;just doing their job&quot;. That is the same line of reasoning that the Nazis used when they were being tried for war crimes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s funny seeing all these people defending others who do atrocious things as &#8220;just doing their job&#8221;. That is the same line of reasoning that the Nazis used when they were being tried for war crimes.</p>
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		<title>By: Lil'SweetLips</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lil'SweetLips</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mulga Mumblebrain what is your problem? You hear one piece of horrible news- and you jump to calling ALL of us &quot;inherently murderous, psychopathic and, inevitably, genocidal&quot; ? 

The fact is- that we had video tapes of PLANES flying into buildings killing thousands of innocent people of all races- and apparently that is not enough to convince some people of intentional murder... but this cell phone capture immediately proves intent and guilt? Lets weigh it out in court with all the evidence.   

But thank you for allowing all of us idiotic Western civilians to blame everyone related to or within proximity for one persons crime.   I will remind my friends that have personally served in the Military, Sheriff&#039;s and other great departments who have sacrificed their own personal gain- for that of others... and its not just if others equals =  white, Christian, wealthy, or even American.    I mean how many support organizations, charities, volunteers, schools and so forth- have we as a community built for all people- here and abroad?  

If you want the world to change, stop blaming everyone else, stop rioting like lunatics that destroy cities and bomb, threaten or hurt others.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mulga Mumblebrain what is your problem? You hear one piece of horrible news- and you jump to calling ALL of us &#8220;inherently murderous, psychopathic and, inevitably, genocidal&#8221; ? </p>
<p>The fact is- that we had video tapes of PLANES flying into buildings killing thousands of innocent people of all races- and apparently that is not enough to convince some people of intentional murder&#8230; but this cell phone capture immediately proves intent and guilt? Lets weigh it out in court with all the evidence.   </p>
<p>But thank you for allowing all of us idiotic Western civilians to blame everyone related to or within proximity for one persons crime.   I will remind my friends that have personally served in the Military, Sheriff&#8217;s and other great departments who have sacrificed their own personal gain- for that of others&#8230; and its not just if others equals =  white, Christian, wealthy, or even American.    I mean how many support organizations, charities, volunteers, schools and so forth- have we as a community built for all people- here and abroad?  </p>
<p>If you want the world to change, stop blaming everyone else, stop rioting like lunatics that destroy cities and bomb, threaten or hurt others.</p>
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		<title>By: Ramsefall</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ramsefall</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Danny Ray,

my response was related to Brian&#039;s inaccurate accusation, nothing more. 

Keep your eye on the ball, buddy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Danny Ray,</p>
<p>my response was related to Brian&#8217;s inaccurate accusation, nothing more. </p>
<p>Keep your eye on the ball, buddy.</p>
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		<title>By: Danny Ray</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/media-plays-make-up-artist-for-officer-johannes-mehserle-oscar-grant%e2%80%99s-killer/#comment-36256</link>
		<dc:creator>Danny Ray</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>you people are like some of your Arab brothers in here you will fight till the last drop of your brothers blood. if they felt so strongly why in the hell don&#039;t they pick up an AK and crush the thieving Jews.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>you people are like some of your Arab brothers in here you will fight till the last drop of your brothers blood. if they felt so strongly why in the hell don&#8217;t they pick up an AK and crush the thieving Jews.</p>
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		<title>By: Danny Ray</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/media-plays-make-up-artist-for-officer-johannes-mehserle-oscar-grant%e2%80%99s-killer/#comment-36255</link>
		<dc:creator>Danny Ray</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ramesfall said. &quot;Outrage over the death of Mr. Grant is being voiced here in response to this particular article’s content. What else would you expect according to the topic?&quot;

 Boy, voicing your outrage will sure change things a lot! At least the peopl who took to the streets are real not some armchair lib .   you want to change things get off your ass, thats the problem with the left they all want to talk an issue to death.

You people can talk till you are blue in the face and they will still be shooting people down in the streets.

The only thing Churchill said wrong was &quot; Jaw Jaw is Better Than War War.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ramesfall said. &#8220;Outrage over the death of Mr. Grant is being voiced here in response to this particular article’s content. What else would you expect according to the topic?&#8221;</p>
<p> Boy, voicing your outrage will sure change things a lot! At least the peopl who took to the streets are real not some armchair lib .   you want to change things get off your ass, thats the problem with the left they all want to talk an issue to death.</p>
<p>You people can talk till you are blue in the face and they will still be shooting people down in the streets.</p>
<p>The only thing Churchill said wrong was &#8221; Jaw Jaw is Better Than War War.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Ramsefall</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/media-plays-make-up-artist-for-officer-johannes-mehserle-oscar-grant%e2%80%99s-killer/#comment-36215</link>
		<dc:creator>Ramsefall</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Billy Beck,

precisely.

----------------

Tree,

You&#039;ve busted my face into laughter from your comment there.

Thanks and tschuss!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Billy Beck,</p>
<p>precisely.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p>Tree,</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve busted my face into laughter from your comment there.</p>
<p>Thanks and tschuss!</p>
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		<title>By: Tree</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/media-plays-make-up-artist-for-officer-johannes-mehserle-oscar-grant%e2%80%99s-killer/#comment-36209</link>
		<dc:creator>Tree</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I am not an officer but I assure you I have all the respect for these men and women that risk their life for getting scum off the street and making our world safe.&quot;

Didn&#039;t pass the psychological test, did you?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I am not an officer but I assure you I have all the respect for these men and women that risk their life for getting scum off the street and making our world safe.&#8221;</p>
<p>Didn&#8217;t pass the psychological test, did you?</p>
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		<title>By: Billy Beck</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/media-plays-make-up-artist-for-officer-johannes-mehserle-oscar-grant%e2%80%99s-killer/#comment-36204</link>
		<dc:creator>Billy Beck</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I dare you to be a cop and risk your life for someone you don’t know.&quot;

I *have*, you asshole: one doesn&#039;t have to be a cop in order to do that.

Fuck the police: all the way and right out loud.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I dare you to be a cop and risk your life for someone you don’t know.&#8221;</p>
<p>I *have*, you asshole: one doesn&#8217;t have to be a cop in order to do that.</p>
<p>Fuck the police: all the way and right out loud.</p>
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		<title>By: Ramsefall</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/media-plays-make-up-artist-for-officer-johannes-mehserle-oscar-grant%e2%80%99s-killer/#comment-36196</link>
		<dc:creator>Ramsefall</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Outrage over the death of Mr. Grant is being voiced here in response to this particular article&#039;s content. What else would you expect according to the topic?

Take notice that in articles dealing with an outrageous number of deaths caused by the elite --  be it as we see in pieces about Israel/Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Congo, etc -- the same outrage is expressed.

I don&#039;t see people looking the other way in response to articles that address those issues as you indicate, Mr. Koontz and Danny Ray. 

Best to you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Outrage over the death of Mr. Grant is being voiced here in response to this particular article&#8217;s content. What else would you expect according to the topic?</p>
<p>Take notice that in articles dealing with an outrageous number of deaths caused by the elite &#8212;  be it as we see in pieces about Israel/Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Congo, etc &#8212; the same outrage is expressed.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t see people looking the other way in response to articles that address those issues as you indicate, Mr. Koontz and Danny Ray. </p>
<p>Best to you.</p>
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		<title>By: Danny Ray</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/media-plays-make-up-artist-for-officer-johannes-mehserle-oscar-grant%e2%80%99s-killer/#comment-36182</link>
		<dc:creator>Danny Ray</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Brian, There is a lot of truth in what Uncle Joe Stalin said. One death is a tragedy, A million is just a statistic</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brian, There is a lot of truth in what Uncle Joe Stalin said. One death is a tragedy, A million is just a statistic</p>
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		<title>By: Brian Koontz</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brian Koontz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s too bad the outrage over one man&#039;s death can&#039;t be multiplied by the number of people killed by the ruling elites of the world.

It&#039;s like if one person is killed the country gets into an uproar, but if a million are killed they look the other way.

I wonder how the number of people calling for Mehserle&#039;s imprisonment compares with the number calling for Dick Cheney&#039;s imprisonment.

Tens of thousands of people die easily preventable deaths every day in the world, caused largely by the global ruling elite.

So sure, send Mehserle to jail. But you&#039;d better not stop there.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s too bad the outrage over one man&#8217;s death can&#8217;t be multiplied by the number of people killed by the ruling elites of the world.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s like if one person is killed the country gets into an uproar, but if a million are killed they look the other way.</p>
<p>I wonder how the number of people calling for Mehserle&#8217;s imprisonment compares with the number calling for Dick Cheney&#8217;s imprisonment.</p>
<p>Tens of thousands of people die easily preventable deaths every day in the world, caused largely by the global ruling elite.</p>
<p>So sure, send Mehserle to jail. But you&#8217;d better not stop there.</p>
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		<title>By: Medina</title>
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		<dc:creator>Medina</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Lock him up and let the lifers deal with him, he will be torn to shreds in the blink of an eye</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lock him up and let the lifers deal with him, he will be torn to shreds in the blink of an eye</p>
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		<title>By: The Angry Peasant</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Angry Peasant</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Another observation: The media in its stunning hypocrisy sings the praises of the first black president being elected (who as we know shares the media&#039;s corporate-puppet agenda), then a few weeks later does all it can to cover up the brutal murder of a fellow establishment member; a cop for killing an innocent black man. The conspiring of the powerful and the media at its finest.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another observation: The media in its stunning hypocrisy sings the praises of the first black president being elected (who as we know shares the media&#8217;s corporate-puppet agenda), then a few weeks later does all it can to cover up the brutal murder of a fellow establishment member; a cop for killing an innocent black man. The conspiring of the powerful and the media at its finest.</p>
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		<title>By: The Angry Peasant</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Angry Peasant</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And John Hatch, your story is equally infuriating. The powerful protect their enforcers everywhere. Incidentally, those goddamn tasers should be outlawed. A bully&#039;s tool; that&#039;s all they are.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And John Hatch, your story is equally infuriating. The powerful protect their enforcers everywhere. Incidentally, those goddamn tasers should be outlawed. A bully&#8217;s tool; that&#8217;s all they are.</p>
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		<title>By: The Angry Peasant</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Angry Peasant</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Exactly. This is one more of a long list of blatant examples for the American people to observe the painful truth: WE ARE NOT PROTECTED BY LAW. Quite the opposite. Christ, how much more will we tolerate?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Exactly. This is one more of a long list of blatant examples for the American people to observe the painful truth: WE ARE NOT PROTECTED BY LAW. Quite the opposite. Christ, how much more will we tolerate?</p>
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		<title>By: Ron Horn</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ron Horn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Incidents such as this have been happening so often since I can remember--mostly since the Vietnam War (recall the massacre of Kent State students by the National Guard)--and almost never, I can&#039;t recall ever that the authority figures were ever disciplined except in the mildest forms.  It seems to me that such incidents really reveal in stark clarity that we live in a class society and the police/military represent the interests of the ruling class.  Hence they are above the law, because the law is only used to keep working people in their place.  Notice that the only people prosecuted for torture at Abu Graib, and other US hellish places, were low ranking soldiers who followed orders that came down from Rumsfeld and Cheney.  Notice that no one as been prosecuted for the recent Wall Street crimes that have put our economy in peril.  Incidents such as Grant&#039;s murder dramatically puts the lie to all the myths about this being a democratic society ruled by law that places everyone equal in the eyes of the law.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Incidents such as this have been happening so often since I can remember&#8211;mostly since the Vietnam War (recall the massacre of Kent State students by the National Guard)&#8211;and almost never, I can&#8217;t recall ever that the authority figures were ever disciplined except in the mildest forms.  It seems to me that such incidents really reveal in stark clarity that we live in a class society and the police/military represent the interests of the ruling class.  Hence they are above the law, because the law is only used to keep working people in their place.  Notice that the only people prosecuted for torture at Abu Graib, and other US hellish places, were low ranking soldiers who followed orders that came down from Rumsfeld and Cheney.  Notice that no one as been prosecuted for the recent Wall Street crimes that have put our economy in peril.  Incidents such as Grant&#8217;s murder dramatically puts the lie to all the myths about this being a democratic society ruled by law that places everyone equal in the eyes of the law.</p>
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		<title>By: MotherJones</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/media-plays-make-up-artist-for-officer-johannes-mehserle-oscar-grant%e2%80%99s-killer/#comment-36047</link>
		<dc:creator>MotherJones</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When cops PURPOSELY Taser/shoot/abuse citizens of ANY race or ethnicity, their names and addresses should be noted. Then they should followed EVERY NIGHT tilL they RESIGN  leave town. 

Another approach is to take out an ad in one or more major community 
newspapers and the Web detailing a cop&#039;s action and that - in response -of his &#039;employer&#039;. Oh yes, the cop&#039;s name &amp; address would be in BOLD TYPE.  I absolutely guarantee this an other methods employed in an ongoing coordinated campaign would result in SAFER CITIZENS,  FEWER &#039;SHOT-IN-THE-BACK&#039; BLACK MEN and more RESPONSIBLE and APPREHENSIVE COPS.

As long as citizens believe the garbage that police &#039;Protect &amp; Serve&#039;,  NO citizens will be SAFE from Taser &amp; Gun-Happy cops.  They know it&#039;s PURE BULL they&#039;ve got a CONTRACTUAL RESPONSIBILITY  &#039;To Protect &amp; Serve&#039;. No MSMA police force have such CRAP in its contract!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When cops PURPOSELY Taser/shoot/abuse citizens of ANY race or ethnicity, their names and addresses should be noted. Then they should followed EVERY NIGHT tilL they RESIGN  leave town. </p>
<p>Another approach is to take out an ad in one or more major community<br />
newspapers and the Web detailing a cop&#8217;s action and that &#8211; in response -of his &#8216;employer&#8217;. Oh yes, the cop&#8217;s name &amp; address would be in BOLD TYPE.  I absolutely guarantee this an other methods employed in an ongoing coordinated campaign would result in SAFER CITIZENS,  FEWER &#8216;SHOT-IN-THE-BACK&#8217; BLACK MEN and more RESPONSIBLE and APPREHENSIVE COPS.</p>
<p>As long as citizens believe the garbage that police &#8216;Protect &amp; Serve&#8217;,  NO citizens will be SAFE from Taser &amp; Gun-Happy cops.  They know it&#8217;s PURE BULL they&#8217;ve got a CONTRACTUAL RESPONSIBILITY  &#8216;To Protect &amp; Serve&#8217;. No MSMA police force have such CRAP in its contract!!</p>
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