I think whoever wrote this deserves to fuck off.

[HughBeaumont]

[JackRiddler]

1. "Godwin's law" is suspended for the duration of this thread.

Because what you see in that simple piece of photoshop work is the Nazi mentality. If they deserved that, and if they come back again, they deserve whatever escalation ultimately comes their way, right?

[cali]

2. absolutely. Whoever posted that piece of shit is a little nazi.

[randome]

21. What escalation is that?

What comes after pepper-spray that OWS plans to deploy against the police?

That pic was posted by someone simply to get under your skin.

[JackRiddler]

23. No, I mean if they keep showing up to protest...

because being hit this way has not deterred them, then (by the mentality of the photoshopper) they deserve whatever next escalation the police commit. And so on, until they're hauled off and disappeared for a while.

[randome]

24. I misinterpreted your previous post.

[ronnie624]

28. If the shoe fits, Godwin's Law doesn't apply. n/t

[backscatter712]

33. Bingo.

[getdown]

3. they deserve

education

[tooeyeten]

4. definitely a comment

by a non-"thinker."

[HughBeaumont]

6. Yes, this is what you "deserve" if you step out of the 1%'s line, hippies!!

They sat compliant while the blue pigshit who doesn't deserve to wear a badge stepped over them and laced them with a jet of cop-grade pepper spray, which has over two times the potency of regular pepper spray.

Logically explain to me HOW they deserved that.

It's just typical of people like this; cowards hiding behind the anonymity of PostSecret.

[tooeyeten]

14. what are you talking about?

My comment was about the "comment"-er on the picture.

[HughBeaumont]

18. It was sarcasm, directed toward the writer of the card.

Sorry.

[tooeyeten]

19. okay then

no offense, you're a little intense at times i wonder where you're coming from, so thanks for clarification! Happy New Year!

[HughBeaumont]

22. This is why I'm taking up watercoloring.

A calming exercise as a remedy for the idiots! . . . Happy New Year.

[tooeyeten]

26. Watercolor?

that's admirable,it's a bit too delicate for my tastes but mostly ability, I seem to have a heavy hand, thus I'm better suited for oil/acrylics, or maybe I should try graffiti? j/k

[MineralMan]

5. Why bother to post it here?

We know there are morons out there already. More evidence of that is not required.

Where did you find the image? That's the only thing that might possibly interest me.

[HughBeaumont]

7. PostSecret.com

[MineralMan]

10. Ah. Well, there's a worthless website.

Why did you choose that image from among all the other meaningless images. So, someone photoshopped a photo to include a crass statement. What makes that photo worth posting on DU? The site is inconsequential. Why not let stupid images die where they are?

I guess I just don't understand the utility of posting random images that express ugly ideas here or anywhere else. Why spread them?

[HughBeaumont]

15. Ok, here's the thing.

[font size="4"]I am a grown adult and I will post what I want to post within the bounds of DU guidlines; YOU are not the arbiter of what I choose to post. If you don't like it, HIDE THE THREAD!!!![/font]

What do I need a reason for? Why is that a requirement?

[MineralMan]

20. Of course you can post the image. I didn't imply that you couldn't.

I can ask the question I asked. You can reply or ignore it. I asked you why you posted it. I can do that, just as you can post the image.

[proud2BlibKansan]

35. +1

[bahrbearian]

8. They sure look aggressive.

[gateley]

11. Yeah - that cop should be awarded for his bravery. Any lesser person

would have been heading for the hills! Scary, scary people!

I was just wondering yesterday whatever happened to him. I hope his house has been TP'd, at the very least, and that his neighbors are shunning him. And that his dog bit him.

[HughBeaumont]

17. He's a coward, just like the person who made this card.

I haven't heard if there's been any backlash on him since his crime.

[TheMastersNemesis]

9. Just Unbelievable

I know that there is a meme going around that is you compare anything to the Nazis you lose the argument. Personally I reject that meme because there are so many things going on that are very much like what happened in Germany. Just rent or find the movie "Cabaret" and watch it very carefully. One could apply so much of that play and movie to what is going on today. It is really scary.

There are so many things that RW idiots and Republican believe today that were totally unthinkable and unmentionable for most of the 20th century. Drug testing for government assistance, ending child labor laws, ending minimum wages, letting people without health insurance die, etc, etc. RW and the GOP are public enemy number 1. What they support is unAmerican and unpatriotic. They disgrace the American flag they wave.

We have to face the fact that we are in a political and cultural civil war in this country. The GOP is pursuing an elminationist and exterminationist political agenda against anyone who does not believe in "The GOP Party Agenda". They are a bigger danger to freedom and democracy in this country than the terrorists ever were.

If the GOP gains control as a vet as far as I am concerned our veterans have wasted their time and their lives for what the GOP wants for this country. What they want has absolutely nothing to do with freedom or democracy. It has everything to do with a totalitrarian theocratic one party government.

When you rig the vote so that only Republicans will be able to vote, they you are committing treason against the flag and the government of the United States. Start calling them on their "election fraud" schemes and "occupy the vote". All of their reasons for voter ID and vote rigging are vicious despicable lies.

They have declared war on democracy and we must understand that.

That cop might as well be a Republican politician.

[HughBeaumont]

30. +100.

For all of the support the GOP reportedly throw to "our troops" they sure have a funny way of showing it by all of the social services that benefit veterans they choose to cut with their votes. Just ask John McCain.

[backscatter712]

34. As far as I'm concerned, Bush killed Godwin's Law. It hasn't been resurrected.

Godwin's Law came into play in the early days of the Internet, when it was mostly computer geeks having flame-wars over various hardware and software issues - Windows vs. Linux, vi vs. emacs. And of course, some numbnut from the emacs camp would call a vi guy a nazi, or vice versa, which is why Mike Godwin made his famous observation "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."

Of course, now, we're not talking about text editors, programming languages, kernel multitasking schedulers or any other technological minutia.

We're talking politics, and we're talking about laws that strip people's civil rights from them. And in this case, I think the Nazi analogy is perfectly reasonable to use.

[snagglepuss]

12. Whoever did that did it to rile ows supporters. They

obviously have been successful. Why give them the satisfaction of reposting this crap?

[randome]

25. What you said.

[HughBeaumont]

29. Right. Absolutely right. Let's just ignore it.

You know, because that sort of "this too shall pass" complacency worked SO well for us in the 70s-90s.

[russspeakeasy]

13. In teeny, tiny print, it says; Love, Dick Cheney.

[HughBeaumont]

16. I wish it did.

Does it?

[russspeakeasy]

32. Naah, just trying to make myself feel good.

[lunatica]

27. I agree

[booley]

31. Authoritarians

Gee, what did that book say about high RWAs and the need to punish?

".....they’d send just about anyone to jail for a longer time than most people
would, from those who spit on the sidewalk to rapists. However, as noted earlier,
authoritarian followers usually would go easy on authorities who commit crimes, and
they similarly make allowances for someone who attacks a victim the authoritarian is
prejudiced against. "

http://members.shaw.ca/jeanaltemeyer/drbob/TheAuthoritarians.pdf

[joshcryer]

36. I bet it's a Ron Paul fan.

[Fire Walk With Me]

37. The new semester shall shortly begin. Oh, how I welcome it.

I hope the UC students kick every ass that deserves kicking, at all of the schools, especially Berkeley and Davis.

Solidarity with the students!