Baltimore, Looters & Bad Backs

We've gotten soft and too sympathetic to criminal's rights. They should have none. Originally Posted by OldGrump

It's not about criminal's rights. The issue is to "lawfully enforce the law."

Am I the only one who thinks all this talk about being tough on crime is kind of funny on a hobby message board?

Am I the only one who thinks all this talk about being tough on crime is kind of funny on a hobby message board? Originally Posted by Alastair

Except one is consensual and victimless, the other is neither .....

Gotta love the mom who slapped the shit out of her son, who was told to come home after school but went to the protest sites anyway, dressed like a ninja warrior...Beautiful. Best news story of the year. May have been the best thing ever to happen to that kid. Originally Posted by Prolongus

I too applaud the fact that the loving Mom stopped her son, and I hope the incident puts him on a path of making better choices and exhibiting more civil behavior. I don't agree with those hailing her as mother of the year.

Certainly there are many mothers in that community whose parental guidance and example resulted in their children never going there in the first place, or at least from not assaulting police officers.

It's true, hobbying and looting are 2 very different things. Politically, however, "tough on crime" just like zero tolerance doesn't have much room for sensible distinctions.

Personally I feel better without cops than with them, no matter what the crime is. This is again why the gun toting Korean shop owners in '92 impressed me so much.

Just heard 6 of the officers will be charged with homicide. Wow. Sacrificial lambs?

freddie did not have previous spinal injuries..

the mother should be charged with assaulting her son..that was a teaching moment and she failed..

It made me sad to see a mother beating her child. Hitting is the lazy way out. Good parenting takes time, patience and setting by example. She hit her child because she saw he had a rock and was going to hit someone with it.
Stupid.

Rofl three posts to respond to one.

Just heard 6 of the officers will be charged with homicide. Wow. Sacrificial lambs? Originally Posted by Prolongus

Sacrificial lambs ? No. At the very least they broke departmental policy by not securing him in a seatbelt.

freddie did not have previous spinal injuries..

the mother should be charged with assaulting her son..that was a teaching moment and she failed.. Originally Posted by Pretty Kori

Assaulting her child? She did no such thing. She excercised her right as a parent to punish her child. Her slaps were neither excessive or damaging

Am I the only one who thinks all this talk about being tough on crime is kind of funny on a hobby message board? Originally Posted by Alastair

If the hobby is a crime then take me to jail officer. Im gonna be a multiple offender

It made me sad to see a mother beating her child. Hitting is the lazy way out. Good parenting takes time, patience and setting by example. She hit her child because she saw he had a rock and was going to hit someone with it.
Stupid. Originally Posted by Maggie_May

There is nothing wrong with fearing parents more than cops.

As long as you have people who get away with looting with no consequences it will never stop. Originally Posted by motor

Is that one, by your own book, a chicken or an egg?

Just heard 6 of the officers will be charged with homicide. Wow. Sacrificial lambs? Originally Posted by Prolongus

For Freddie Gray, right?