Boston cop suspended after racist outburst: police

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UberNeuman

Lifer
Nov 4, 1999
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Originally posted by: PJABBER
Originally posted by: n yusef
Originally posted by: PJABBER
In Barrett's e-mail, which was posted on a Boston television station's Web site, he declared that if he had "been the officer he verbally assaulted like a banana-eating jungle monkey, I would have sprayed him in the face with OC [oleoresin capsicum, or pepper spray] deserving of his belligerent noncompliance."
Yeah, after a couple of weeks on this forum I know the feeling.


He also declared that he was "not a racist but I am prejudice [sic] towards people who are stupid and pretend to stand up and preach for something they say is freedom but it is merely attention because you do not get enough of it in your little fear-dwelling circle of on-the-bandwagon followers."

Who would like to invite this guy to become an active member of the P&N forum?

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

:laugh:

Are you defending the officer, or am I misunderstanding this?

:confused:

I am not defending this officer who is obviously bent out of shape by the goings on and offering his opinion that a more traditional approach to law enforcement be followed.

I am empathizing with him as a human being suffering under a sense of helpless frustration. I, however, am not nearly as helplessly frustrated or agitated as he appears to be from these comments. Of course, I am not a cop in Boston or Cambridge, either.

I am considering his statements on a par with many in the same character and the same level of discourse as can be found here in the P&N forum, and elsewhere in other online forums.

My suggestion that he be invited to join this motley crew was made in jest. I don't think he would accept. And if he did, he would be just as helplessly frustrated.

You're kind of a worm, parasitic in nature... I look forward to laughing at your future postings...
 

Siddhartha

Lifer
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Originally posted by: PJABBER
Originally posted by: n yusef
Originally posted by: PJABBER
In Barrett's e-mail, which was posted on a Boston television station's Web site, he declared that if he had "been the officer he verbally assaulted like a banana-eating jungle monkey, I would have sprayed him in the face with OC [oleoresin capsicum, or pepper spray] deserving of his belligerent noncompliance."
Yeah, after a couple of weeks on this forum I know the feeling.


He also declared that he was "not a racist but I am prejudice [sic] towards people who are stupid and pretend to stand up and preach for something they say is freedom but it is merely attention because you do not get enough of it in your little fear-dwelling circle of on-the-bandwagon followers."

Who would like to invite this guy to become an active member of the P&N forum?

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

:laugh:

Are you defending the officer, or am I misunderstanding this?

:confused:

I am not defending this officer who is obviously bent out of shape by the goings on and offering his opinion that a more traditional approach to law enforcement be followed.

I am empathizing with him as a human being suffering under a sense of helpless frustration. I, however, am not nearly as helplessly frustrated or agitated as he appears to be from these comments. Of course, I am not a cop in Boston or Cambridge, either.

I am considering his statements on a par with many in the same character and the same level of discourse as can be found here in the P&N forum, and elsewhere in other online forums.

My suggestion that he be invited to join this motley crew was made in jest. I don't think he would accept. And if he did, he would be just as helplessly frustrated.

You are probably not going to get the level of affirmation\agreement of your political views you want here in ATP&N. There are other forums where you will find more people who agree with you. Ask Fear No Evil and Prof John, I am sure they can help you out.
 

UberNeuman

Lifer
Nov 4, 1999
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Originally posted by: Siddhartha
Originally posted by: PJABBER
Originally posted by: n yusef
Originally posted by: PJABBER
In Barrett's e-mail, which was posted on a Boston television station's Web site, he declared that if he had "been the officer he verbally assaulted like a banana-eating jungle monkey, I would have sprayed him in the face with OC [oleoresin capsicum, or pepper spray] deserving of his belligerent noncompliance."
Yeah, after a couple of weeks on this forum I know the feeling.


He also declared that he was "not a racist but I am prejudice [sic] towards people who are stupid and pretend to stand up and preach for something they say is freedom but it is merely attention because you do not get enough of it in your little fear-dwelling circle of on-the-bandwagon followers."

Who would like to invite this guy to become an active member of the P&N forum?

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

:laugh:

Are you defending the officer, or am I misunderstanding this?

:confused:

I am not defending this officer who is obviously bent out of shape by the goings on and offering his opinion that a more traditional approach to law enforcement be followed.

I am empathizing with him as a human being suffering under a sense of helpless frustration. I, however, am not nearly as helplessly frustrated or agitated as he appears to be from these comments. Of course, I am not a cop in Boston or Cambridge, either.

I am considering his statements on a par with many in the same character and the same level of discourse as can be found here in the P&N forum, and elsewhere in other online forums.

My suggestion that he be invited to join this motley crew was made in jest. I don't think he would accept. And if he did, he would be just as helplessly frustrated.

You are probably not going to get the level of affirmation\agreement of your political views you want here in ATP&N. There are other forums where you will find more people who agree with you. Ask Fear No Evil and Prof John, I am sure they can help you out.

oh, no... no, no, no.... The game's afoot.....
 

PJABBER

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You are probably not going to get the level of affirmation\agreement of your political views you want here in ATP&N. There are other forums where you will find more people who agree with you. Ask Fear No Evil and Prof John, I am sure they can help you out.

I look for neither approbation nor disapprobation. I seek enlightenment and question the premise of certainty. I cheer for the under dog and I avoid the foolish, the senseless and the unreasonable. This is not my life nor my avocation. It is an amusement in the wee hours of the night before my dreams turn to serious matters.
 

Mani

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Originally posted by: PJABBER
Originally posted by: n yusef
Originally posted by: PJABBER
In Barrett's e-mail, which was posted on a Boston television station's Web site, he declared that if he had "been the officer he verbally assaulted like a banana-eating jungle monkey, I would have sprayed him in the face with OC [oleoresin capsicum, or pepper spray] deserving of his belligerent noncompliance."
Yeah, after a couple of weeks on this forum I know the feeling.


He also declared that he was "not a racist but I am prejudice [sic] towards people who are stupid and pretend to stand up and preach for something they say is freedom but it is merely attention because you do not get enough of it in your little fear-dwelling circle of on-the-bandwagon followers."

Who would like to invite this guy to become an active member of the P&N forum?

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

:laugh:

Are you defending the officer, or am I misunderstanding this?

:confused:

I am not defending this officer who is obviously bent out of shape by the goings on and offering his opinion that a more traditional approach to law enforcement be followed.

I am empathizing with him as a human being suffering under a sense of helpless frustration.

It's funny how conservatives become bleeding hearts when it comes to defending bigoted twats like Barrett.
 

Phokus

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Nov 20, 1999
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Originally posted by: PJABBER


I am not defending this officer who is obviously bent out of shape by the goings on and offering his opinion that a more traditional approach to law enforcement be followed.

I am empathizing with him as a human being suffering under a sense of helpless frustration. I, however, am not nearly as helplessly frustrated or agitated as he appears to be from these comments. Of course, I am not a cop in Boston or Cambridge, either.

I am considering his statements on a par with many in the same character and the same level of discourse as can be found here in the P&N forum, and elsewhere in other online forums.

My suggestion that he be invited to join this motley crew was made in jest. I don't think he would accept. And if he did, he would be just as helplessly frustrated.

Perhaps Stormfront would be a more suitable forum for you?
 

Dari

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Oct 25, 2002
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Originally posted by: n yusef
PJABBER = William F. Buckley + Moonbeam

Considering his response to my post in the Iran thread, he certainly isn't as intellectual as you make him out to be. Probably 1st year college, but that's about it.
 

PJABBER

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Originally posted by: Dari
Originally posted by: n yusef
PJABBER = William F. Buckley + Moonbeam

Considering his response to my post in the Iran thread, he certainly isn't as intellectual as you make him out to be. Probably 1st year college, but that's about it.

Perhaps for you, and only you, you might visualize me as Cartman all grown up and loaded for bear.
 

Moonbeam

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I emphasize with the frustrated too but I have a different take on helpless, perhaps.

I do not see frustration as an inevitability or even as something genuinely real. I think we are frustrated because we are unconscious. And we had no choice in being unconscious. But in any moment of the now we can awaken and acquire insights into the self that can allow us to transcend our frustration.

Just a small example of what I mean might be the total frustration of depression. There is no way up for the depressed. They are in a capsized boat. But the way out of depression is not up but down. You have to dive deeper to go up. Depression is the numbness caused by not being able to feel and not knowing you are afraid to and are yourself doing the blocking of what you feel. The key is realizing you are in a catch 22. You feel dead because you are dead because you don't want to live because you think if you feel you will die. To get out of this trap you have to get some help and take a chance by working to know what you feel.

This world offers almost no help because everybody has the same fear.