Reply #27: Actually, people are [View All]

[kdmorris]

In fact, one person compared him to the person in the picture from 1989 of Tienanmen Square. You know.. the guy standing in front of the tank, staring into the barrel of a gun?

I'm not defending the cops. I think what they did was wrong and over the top and yet another example of the loss of our rights in this ever-increasing police state. But I don't want THIS kid to be our rallying hero. HE'S not. It's sickening how people are acting like this kid is the second coming of Christ himself, when there are WAY more persecuted, way more traumatized people brutalized by the police who NEVER even make the front page. And I damned sure hate the fact that people are using this incident to bash Kerry. So, I'm emotional and fed up about the whole thing.

Where's the outrage for Mychal Bell? His sentence was vacated and he still sits in jail. Where's the outrage for Leonard Peltier? Turns out he was likely innocent, but he still sits in jail. Where's the outrage for all the people shot with rubber bullets and arrested during the PEACEFUL anti-war march this weekend? What about all the unnamed African Americans that were shot because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time?

WHY DO WE KEEP TALKING ABOUT THIS KID WHEN HE WENT THERE TO START TROUBLE? He's NO HERO.