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Protestors whine about police use of pepper spray
Whine, whine, whine. Protestors love to whine after cops in cities all around the U.S. hit them with a blast of pepper spray. Many times, the cops take to using pepper spray after unruly protestors or demonstrators ignore police demands to move or when they are out of hand, such as when they are destroying private and public property “to make a point.”
After police commanders watch the scene, determine the peaceful efforts of the cops on the ground are not effective, the order is given to hit the mob with pepper spray. Sometimes, though, individuals are given a reality check with a blast of pepper spray by an individual cop, such as when the person is attempting to resist arrest by trying to punch, hit, kick, bite, or toss things at the police officer. The whining protestors are lucky the cops didn’t slap them in the head, face, or kneecaps with their baton.
Reading articles about protestors in recent months, it seems a bunch of bleeding heart liberals are at work at some of the formerly largest and most-respected newspapers in the country. Now, though, the papers are without neutrality, it seems, and lob-sided reporting — all positive for anything anti-cop, anti-government, anti-Christian, anti-Jew, anti-Christmas, anti-injun (American Indian, not to be confused with “East Indians” or people from India), and a few other biases.
If you’re an illegal alien demanding “your right” to stay in the U.S., you’re the media’s sweetheart. If you’re a family member or friend of someone who killed someone, the media is going to be “sensitive” to you and the woes you’re suffering, and often call into question whether the police used “unjustified force” during the arrest, but often look for the “troubled life” the perpetrator has led. Give me a break!
Illegal aliens — the key word being illegal — do not have the “rights” of American citizens. Murderers, drug dealers, mobsters, gangbangers, and gangsta types are not people who should ever be the sweetheart of the media. In fact, all these people ought be cast in the light they deserve: they are people who are willingly on the wrong side of the law.
For example, there have been several protests over the past few months where people have been blasted with pepper spray by police officers. When the protestors talk with the media, they said it was “unfair” and an “unprovoked attack” by police, and often whine that the “attack came without warning.” Those same words often, in today’s society, find their way into print and onto the airwaves, often by the reporter, then echoed by the protestors. Again, where is the neutrality in reporting? If the “reporter” cannot be neutral, get the hell out of the news business!
When people are hit by pepper spray, they cry. In fact, they do a lot of crying. That’s the idea. They also get a sensation that their skin is burning, and often it is somewhat hard — but not impossible — to breathe. Sometimes, especially if they inhale enough of the gas, they vomit.
One of the things many of the protestors, as well as those sympathetic to the protestors like to bring up is the following:
From www.fair.org:
Pepper spray (in police jargon “OC,” for its Latin name of oleoresin capsicum), an oil derived from cayenne peppers, is classified as a chemical weapon, and as such banned for use in war–but not in domestic police work.
Yes, it’s true pepper spray, as well as riot control gas has been banned for use in war, there’s a reason: so that the side being gassed doesn’t think it’s being gassed with a biological agent and retaliate with nerve agent or other weapons, including, possibly, nuclear weapons. Simple, huh? The protestors conveniently forget to read that part of the history lesson they want to share. Or is it they conveniently forget to share it, thinking everyone will feel sorry for the lame whining.
While serving my time in the military, I had been exposed to CS gas so many times, I actually got used to the stuff in some ways. Although my eyes and exposes skin would burn, and although Niagara Falls made a great debut each time through my nostrils, or so it seemed, it wasn’t as horrible as the first time I was exposed to it.
I learned, over time, to be able to inhale it, walk through it, and remain oriented to my location, and be able to carry on my assigned mission at the time. Sure, I was slowed down a lot, but when you have tears coming out of your tears ducts forcibly, stinging your eyes, it’s hard to keep your eyes focused.
During the Republican National Convention here in Philadelphia in August 2000, protestors were all about, but in fact, they weren’t protestors. They turned into domestic terrorists — a term I used to describe their actions at the time, not anything related to Dubya, Cheney, and Cronies’ use of the word terrorist in every arrest and charge possible.
It was during the RNC here in Philly that I learned to have even more respect for the men and women of the Philadelphia Police Department that I had ever had in the past. It took guts, honor, integrity, and a willingness to serve the public — to degrees I never would have patience for — when it came to some of the crap the cops tolerated from protestors during that convention. Here’s a snippet from a column I wrote at Newsguy.com at the time:
Philadelphia police officers were trained for much of what they could expect - and as it turned out — much of what was done to them during the convention. They were hit, spit on, cursed at, insulted, mocked, and even had a form of acid doused on a female cop.
[snip]The Philly cops exhibited levels of personal and professional restraint that many people cannot believe it’s the same police force we see here each and every day. I’m included in that group.
[snip]During the convention and the many protests, many police cars were damaged. I’m talking about tires being slashed. I’m talking about windows and windshields being smashed. Let’s not forget about the cars that had the interiors completely trashed, including all communication and controls. I never read in the U.S. Constitution or the Bill of Rights anything that would allow this kind of activity. Why? Because it isn’t protesting — that is called domestic terrorism. This is the kind of activity you would expect from some foreign terrorist organization.
While we’re looking at the domestic terrorists, let’s not forget about the ones that grabbed many cops riding 10-speed bicycles and hurled them. Even the police commissioner, who was on a bike, was tossed. In fact, he was toppled and his bike dumped on him. Was there any need for that? Not as far as I can tell, and not as far as anyone else — excluding the cops — can tell.
Then there are the terrorists who decided to take trash dumpsters and push them into city streets, topple them, and ignite the mess into balls of fire. Yes, I can see their protest in that. Such a statement they were making. That must have been the silent protest group from Pyromaniacs International.
I’m a firm supporter of the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, as well as the later Constitutional amendments. I especially support the First Amendment, which offers the right to free speech, the right to freedom of the press and of religion, as well as the right to a redress of grievances from government officials. In fact, the wording of it is so utterly important — especially today — that I will post it here:
First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Somehow, in their feeble minds, many protestors believe those 45 words give them “rights” far above anything actually in the First Amendment. In fact, if you listen to some protestors, they have “rights” that no one in any free country have ever heard of, including the “right” to ignore police.
I guess at the end of the day, when these whiners call home to complain to friends, loved ones, and perhaps even parents, crying about the “abuses” they’ve suffered, they have to come up with some kind of “justification” for their actions, even if it’s but an imaginary reason.
If you don’t want to sniff the pepper spray, stay away from all the whiners and domestic terrorists on protest day.
