Comments on: Portland prosecutor says innocent man's classic kung fu film collection warranted brutal police tasing http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 08:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: realityhater http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1411433 realityhater Wed, 02 May 2012 11:17:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1411433 sorry playing chess thinking three moves ahead.... at this point after re reading your post, I am not even sure how my twisted mind interpreted, your post about the scenario of being on the sex offender list and how that fact, if known could affect the outcome or public opinion..... jeez leaps and bounds away , maybe I'd better cut back on the medication :) sorry playing chess thinking three moves ahead…. at this point after re reading your post, I am not even sure how my twisted mind interpreted, your post about the scenario of being on the sex offender list and how that fact, if known could affect the outcome or public opinion….. jeez leaps and bounds away , maybe I’d better cut back on the medication :)

]]> By: That_Anonymous_Coward http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1410996 That_Anonymous_Coward Wed, 02 May 2012 01:10:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1410996 Reading... its fundamental. How you turned a discussion about the perceived guilt of someone because they might have done something before and came up with a registry for bad cops escapes me. Reading… its fundamental.
How you turned a discussion about the perceived guilt of someone because they might have done something before and came up with a registry for bad cops escapes me.

]]> By: realityhater http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1410368 realityhater Tue, 01 May 2012 15:49:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1410368 a registry for loose cannon LEO's - Fuck that fire them ! a registry for loose cannon LEO’s – Fuck that fire them !

]]> By: realityhater http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1410335 realityhater Tue, 01 May 2012 15:26:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1410335 yeah because JUSTICE IS RETROACTIVE based on evidence found after the fact------amazing how the law twists and turns when it is applied to those who are paid  to enforce others follow it ..... yeah because JUSTICE IS RETROACTIVE based on evidence found after the fact——amazing how the law twists and turns when it is applied to those who are paid  to enforce others follow it …..

]]> By: realityhater http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1410328 realityhater Tue, 01 May 2012 15:21:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1410328 Wow...chalk up one more article on police brutality , with no punishment after the office has been found out to be in the wrong. Once again we the people pay the tab for an officer who should not have been on the force to begin with.... Sue him personally in civil court for discriminating against old kung fu movie buffs ....take away his pension .... Making the citizens pay for the mistakes of the local authorities should be outlawed as there is no repercussion forced on the agency or agents responsible. Wow…chalk up one more article on police brutality , with no punishment after the office has been found out to be in the wrong.
Once again we the people pay the tab for an officer who should not have been on the force to begin with….
Sue him personally in civil court for discriminating against old kung fu movie buffs ….take away his pension …. Making the citizens pay for the mistakes of the local authorities should be outlawed as there is no repercussion forced on the agency or agents responsible.

]]> By: Elieza Tang http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1410041 Elieza Tang Tue, 01 May 2012 03:17:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1410041 My atx dollars went to  paying the cops to tase this man and the man for owning a kung fu collection.  I love this country My atx dollars went to  paying the cops to tase this man and the man for owning a kung fu collection. 

I love this country

]]> By: Ipo http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1409769 Ipo Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:34:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1409769 Ryan Lenethen,  China has such low numbers because they only report regular uniformed police.  Secret police is secret.  The Ministry of State Security is huge.  The MSS has the same authority to arrest or detain people as regular police for crimes involving state security.  Like blogging.  Persia is not reporting the numbers for SAVAK (National Intelligence and Security Organization) and Basij, whose job is the policing of morals and the suppression of dissident gatherings and the like. Ryan Lenethen, 
China has such low numbers because they only report regular uniformed police. 
Secret police is secret. 
The Ministry of State Security is huge. 
The MSS has the same authority to arrest or detain people as regular police for
crimes involving state security. 
Like blogging. 

Persia is not reporting the numbers for SAVAK (National Intelligence and Security Organization) and Basij, whose job is the policing of morals and the suppression of dissident gatherings and the like.

]]> By: Ryan Lenethen http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1409386 Ryan Lenethen Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:06:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1409386 Yes like the list. I got to say I like Canada's neighbors on the list in the under 200 club: Norway: 158  Canada: 195  Denmark: 196 Sweden: 199 Just two things: 1) I was wondering was Finland was, and looked it up: Finland: 146 (Which is about what I would expect) Nordic Countries! Whut Whut! 2) I am pretty sure China has such a low rate simply because its population is so massive. Looking at: India: 130 (I would say that makes a strong argument). Also if you can even believe the Iran number, I would wonder if that doesn't count the religious police, and also the fact that possibly their military which may have a very large presence may handle a lot of the domestic service. Yes like the list. I got to say I like Canada’s neighbors on the list in the under 200 club:

Norway: 158 
Canada: 195 
Denmark: 196
Sweden: 199

Just two things:

1) I was wondering was Finland was, and looked it up:
Finland: 146 (Which is about what I would expect)
Nordic Countries! Whut Whut!

2) I am pretty sure China has such a low rate simply because its population is so massive. Looking at:
India: 130 (I would say that makes a strong argument). Also if you can even believe the Iran number, I would wonder if that doesn’t count the religious police, and also the fact that possibly their military which may have a very large presence may handle a lot of the domestic service.

]]> By: Guest http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1409329 Guest Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:00:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1409329 85 comments and nobody went here?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhUkGIsKvn0 Maybe taser is faster than lightning? 85 comments and nobody went here?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhUkGIsKvn0

Maybe taser is faster than lightning?

]]> By: Warren Grant http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1409265 Warren Grant Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:28:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1409265  Unless when you go there,  you aren't a White Conservative Christian. Then it might get ugly when they find out...  Unless when you go there,  you aren’t a White Conservative Christian. Then it might get ugly when they find out…

]]> By: FrodeSvendsen http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1409241 FrodeSvendsen Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:36:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1409241 I can't get myself to press like, but I appreciate the information..  I can’t get myself to press like, but I appreciate the information.. 

]]> By: $19428857 http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1409131 $19428857 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:51:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1409131 Exactly. Thank you for translating me. I get so tired of the game "y'all are assholes, we're not". I see the North vs. the South (US) version of the game played by folks from states with defacto segregation, plenty of racism, and dickish cops (looking at you, NY), here on Boing-Boing and other sites. I see the North American version of the game played by our northern neighbors in Canada, home of Prime Minister George Bush Wanna-Be and the clown who is the mayor of Toronto. Yesterday I saw the Western Industrialized Nations version of the game: Netherlands vs. USA.  And, objectively, they win on current conditions, but what does it add to the conversation to point out that the Dutch rule, the Yanks drool? Nothing! It's just comments from the peanut gallery. Not saying they have to shut up. You can have a part of the conversation, a valuable part, but don't be a preachy, smug dick. When Dutch (or German, or British, or French...) newspapers cease covering their national news for lack of negative things to report, I'll sit still  for smug Europeans preaching to America about Paradiso Europeo. Talk about our issues constructively, not about how wonderful you've got over there in that theme park called Europe, because your self-congratulations don't help us solve our problems.  I spent enough time in Europe to know y'all ain't so different from us here in the US. A friend of mine had all his guitars stolen in Amsterdam when his band was touring, so I know you have crime there. Let's talk about Gert Wilders, reactionary politics and the 15% of your population who feel that are too brown to really be accepted as Dutch, so I know you have racism there. We know you have homicidal psychopaths, because Joran van der Sloot is a proud Nederlander. That's just off the top of my head, Martijn.  And personally, I don't feel the histories of the Dutch East India Company and the West India Company (Slavery, Massacres and Boers, oh my!) are counterbalanced by the relative benign period since y'all quit trying to rule Indonesia in 1949, much less by the last ten or so orderly and peaceful years since the "student protest in The Hague", so there. Sixty-three years is a blink of the eye in historical terms, especially when weighed against a body count.  An example you might feel viscerally: it's been a whopping great seventy-two years since the Germans came a-calling. You'd agree that their moral slate has been wiped clean, right? It's been sixty seven years since they got kicked back out. So you would be okay with a German  holding forth about the Niederländischen and about how in Deutschland,  it's so much better, because after all, it's been seventy odd years since they bombed Rotterdam to the ground. All is forgotten! Uh, no. Y'all pretty much hated the Germans, and weren't afraid to say so when I was over there hanging out, drinking the good Heinekin (the export stuff we get is disgusting). So, I guess the current conditions aren't always the whole story. Feel guilty any aspect of your national patrimony, my cousin Martijn? Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, great grandpa was a stowaway and army deserter from Rotterdam, so historically, some of this gets on me. OH! What was wrong with the Netherlands? Why did the Dutch kill and enslave so many brown and black people? Nyah-nyah-nyah. Your nation is not beyond accountability for it's past, just as my nation is not beyond accountability for our present.  So cut the bullshit. We are all sinners, to quote my christianist friends. We are all vulnerable to criticism and one upsmanship, because when one engages in such game playing, one gets to pick the rules and the field of play. Pretty fucking easy game to play, but it's not productive when addressing police brutality in Portland, Oregon. Add something to the conversation or, as I said earlier, STFU. Here is a template: (factual statement about something fucked up that happened in a country at which you look down your nose) + (statement of personal opinion OR factually supported belief  OR deep insight OR suggestion for positive step to solve the fucked up happening OR historical parallel OR expression of commiseration with/support for the victim OR yadda, yadda, yadda, etc.) = a contribution to the conversation. (My country rocks) + (Your country sucks) = FAIL. Exactly. Thank you for translating me.

I get so tired of the game “y’all are assholes, we’re not”. I see the North vs. the South (US) version of the game played by folks from states with defacto segregation, plenty of racism, and dickish cops (looking at you, NY), here on Boing-Boing and other sites. I see the North American version of the game played by our northern neighbors in Canada, home of Prime Minister George Bush Wanna-Be and the clown who is the mayor of Toronto. Yesterday I saw the Western Industrialized Nations version of the game: Netherlands vs. USA.  And, objectively, they win on current conditions, but what does it add to the conversation to point out that the Dutch rule, the Yanks drool? Nothing! It’s just comments from the peanut gallery. Not saying they have to shut up. You can have a part of the conversation, a valuable part, but don’t be a preachy, smug dick.

When Dutch (or German, or British, or French…) newspapers cease covering their national news for lack of negative things to report, I’ll sit still  for smug Europeans preaching to America about Paradiso Europeo. Talk about our issues constructively, not about how wonderful you’ve got over there in that theme park called Europe, because your self-congratulations don’t help us solve our problems.  I spent enough time in Europe to know y’all ain’t so different from us here in the US. A friend of mine had all his guitars stolen in Amsterdam when his band was touring, so I know you have crime there. Let’s talk about Gert Wilders, reactionary politics and the 15% of your population who feel that are too brown to really be accepted as Dutch, so I know you have racism there. We know you have homicidal psychopaths, because Joran van der Sloot is a proud Nederlander. That’s just off the top of my head, Martijn. 

And personally, I don’t feel the histories of the Dutch East India Company and the West India Company (Slavery, Massacres and Boers, oh my!) are counterbalanced by the relative benign period since y’all quit trying to rule Indonesia in 1949, much less by the last ten or so orderly and peaceful years since the “student protest in The Hague”, so there. Sixty-three years is a blink of the eye in historical terms, especially when weighed against a body count.  An example you might feel viscerally: it’s been a whopping great seventy-two years since the Germans came a-calling. You’d agree that their moral slate has been wiped clean, right? It’s been sixty seven years since they got kicked back out. So you would be okay with a German  holding forth about the Niederländischen and about how in Deutschland,  it’s so much better, because after all, it’s been seventy odd years since they bombed Rotterdam to the ground. All is forgotten! Uh, no. Y’all pretty much hated the Germans, and weren’t afraid to say so when I was over there hanging out, drinking the good Heinekin (the export stuff we get is disgusting). So, I guess the current conditions aren’t always the whole story.

Feel guilty any aspect of your national patrimony, my cousin Martijn? Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, great grandpa was a stowaway and army deserter from Rotterdam, so historically, some of this gets on me. OH! What was wrong with the Netherlands? Why did the Dutch kill and enslave so many brown and black people? Nyah-nyah-nyah. Your nation is not beyond accountability for it’s past, just as my nation is not beyond accountability for our present.  So cut the bullshit.

We are all sinners, to quote my christianist friends. We are all vulnerable to criticism and one upsmanship, because when one engages in such game playing, one gets to pick the rules and the field of play. Pretty fucking easy game to play, but it’s not productive when addressing police brutality in Portland, Oregon.

Add something to the conversation or, as I said earlier, STFU. Here is a template: (factual statement about something fucked up that happened in a country at which you look down your nose) + (statement of personal opinion OR factually supported belief  OR deep insight OR suggestion for positive step to solve the fucked up happening OR historical parallel OR expression of commiseration with/support for the victim OR yadda, yadda, yadda, etc.) = a contribution to the conversation. (My country rocks) + (Your country sucks) = FAIL.

]]> By: That_Anonymous_Coward http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1408978 That_Anonymous_Coward Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:16:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1408978 Except you have to deal with union contracts where they have to be caught drinking the blood of a virgin under the full moon to actually ever be fired. Then you have to deal with irate officers who might get the blue flu and leave the city hanging to remind everyone how much you need them and should never question them. Its a brotherhood and they have to support each other!  Except everytime you ignore what was done for the sake of the brotherhood you dishonor the badge on your chest... and then you wonder why people on the street have no respect for you anymore. Except you have to deal with union contracts where they have to be caught drinking the blood of a virgin under the full moon to actually ever be fired.
Then you have to deal with irate officers who might get the blue flu and leave the city hanging to remind everyone how much you need them and should never question them.
Its a brotherhood and they have to support each other! 
Except everytime you ignore what was done for the sake of the brotherhood you dishonor the badge on your chest… and then you wonder why people on the street have no respect for you anymore.

]]> By: bklynchris http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1408920 bklynchris Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:37:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1408920 BwaHahahahaha! BwaHahahahaha!

]]> By: Xof http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1408906 Xof Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:06:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1408906 'The bishop says, "I'm afraid you've got a bad egg, Mr Jones." The curate replies, "Oh, no, my Lord, I assure you that parts of it are excellent!"' ‘The bishop says, “I’m afraid you’ve got a bad egg, Mr Jones.” The curate replies, “Oh, no, my Lord, I assure you that parts of it are excellent!”‘

]]> By: Marja Erwin http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1408899 Marja Erwin Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:52:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1408899 There was that whole issue with Louisiana putting people on the sex offender registry for walking while trans. There was that whole issue with Louisiana putting people on the sex offender registry for walking while trans.

]]> By: Ipo http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1408863 Ipo Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:33:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1408863 Little John,  The numbers are from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_size_of_police_forces" rel="nofollow">this Wikipedia page</a>. Little John, 
The numbers are from this Wikipedia page.

]]> By: Little John http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1408853 Little John Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:01:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1408853 Interesting, thanks, Ipo. Care to reveal your source(s)? Is the numbers from a bunch of googling you did, or is there some Wikipedia article you found? Interesting, thanks, Ipo. Care to reveal your source(s)? Is the numbers from a bunch of googling you did, or is there some Wikipedia article you found?

]]> By: That_Anonymous_Coward http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1408851 That_Anonymous_Coward Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:51:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1408851 Why yes it would, but only in a matter of perception from the public. He OBVIOUSLY would have committed another foul deed, like he has a history of doing, and we just got to him before he turned one you you fine upstanding citizens into his newest victim. You hear someone is on the sex offender registry, a majority of people assume the person rapes children.  The list of what can get you on that list is huge and many of them aren't even sexual in nature.  But if you saw someone beaten like this man and they said, he is on the sex offender registry would you even think twice? Why yes it would, but only in a matter of perception from the public.
He OBVIOUSLY would have committed another foul deed, like he has a history of doing, and we just got to him before he turned one you you fine upstanding citizens into his newest victim.

You hear someone is on the sex offender registry, a majority of people assume the person rapes children.  The list of what can get you on that list is huge and many of them aren’t even sexual in nature.  But if you saw someone beaten like this man and they said, he is on the sex offender registry would you even think twice?

]]> By: lonestarlmk http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1408852 lonestarlmk Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:51:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1408852 Brief anecdote about Portland cops: I lived in P-town in 2006 and was riding my bike home in the rain one night when a police cruiser creeped up behind me and rev'ed his engine and flashed his siren/lights when he was a few feet back from me, making me jump, slip and fall. When I got back up he shined his spotlight in my face and demanded I explain what I was doing, what my address was, why I was riding up the hill to OHSU at night. He searched my bags for 'stolen property.' The reason he gave? I was wearing black rain gear with Illuminite reflective patches and stripes, and he said it was 'camouflage'. Yes...that sneaky sneaky REFLECTIVE camouflage. Brief anecdote about Portland cops:
I lived in P-town in 2006 and was riding my bike home in the rain one night when a police cruiser creeped up behind me and rev’ed his engine and flashed his siren/lights when he was a few feet back from me, making me jump, slip and fall. When I got back up he shined his spotlight in my face and demanded I explain what I was doing, what my address was, why I was riding up the hill to OHSU at night. He searched my bags for ‘stolen property.’ The reason he gave? I was wearing black rain gear with Illuminite reflective patches and stripes, and he said it was ‘camouflage’. Yes…that sneaky sneaky REFLECTIVE camouflage.

]]> By: Ambiguity http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1408823 Ambiguity Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:53:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1408823 I don't think he's saying that any country is "just as bad" as any other country. The point I believe he was making -- and I think it is a valid one -- is that all countries have issues, and smugness/criticizing other countries does nothing to address the problems in your own country. And, frankly, that should be <i>everyone's</i> concern. Yea, it's fun to feel superior, and criticism is a lot more fun that introspection, but ultimately it does no good. I don’t think he’s saying that any country is “just as bad” as any other country. The point I believe he was making — and I think it is a valid one — is that all countries have issues, and smugness/criticizing other countries does nothing to address the problems in your own country. And, frankly, that should be everyone’s concern. Yea, it’s fun to feel superior, and criticism is a lot more fun that introspection, but ultimately it does no good.

]]> By: Ambiguity http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1408821 Ambiguity Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:45:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1408821  Actually, there are some really, really bad things about it. But I'm curios as to where you live, 'cause I'm looking for a country that doesn't have a dark side. Thanks in advance.  Actually, there are some really, really bad things about it.

But I’m curios as to where you live, ’cause I’m looking for a country that doesn’t have a dark side.

Thanks in advance.

]]> By: Ipo http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1408816 Ipo Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:23:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1408816 I have done that.  I fought back cops and caused their hospitalization.  It was life changing.  I was quickly, almost immediately, released from an insane ward I'd been taken to, in cuffs, ankle cuffs and strapped to a stretcher, by a Doc who was sick of police beatings.  My lawyer suggested for me to not go home and to hide until I leave the country, and after I recovered from my injuries, I did.  True story. =] I have done that. 
I fought back cops and caused their hospitalization. 
It was life changing. 
I was quickly, almost immediately, released from an insane ward I’d been taken to, in cuffs, ankle cuffs and strapped to a stretcher, by a Doc who was sick of police beatings. 
My lawyer suggested for me to not go home and to hide until I leave the country, and after I recovered from my injuries, I did. 

True story. =]

]]> By: Ipo http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1408812 Ipo Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:13:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1408812  I hope this is not your real name.  Will you be safe?   I hope this is not your real name. 
Will you be safe? 

]]> By: Ipo http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1408811 Ipo Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:10:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1408811  I find that second-most interesting.  I find it most interesting that his owning kung fu flicks could justify his beatdown and torture under any circumstance in anyone's mind.  Imagine he liked war movies.   They would have had to shoot him.   I find that second-most interesting. 
I find it most interesting that his owning kung fu flicks could justify his beatdown and torture under any circumstance in anyone’s mind. 

Imagine he liked war movies.  
They would have had to shoot him. 

]]> By: Ipo http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1408806 Ipo Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:58:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1408806 The following numbers are: cops per 100,000 capita:  Iran: 55              (lol!  Also no gays.) China: 120        (Obviously not counting Thought Police.) Norway: 158           (Norwegians.) Canada: 195        (But Mounties should count triple.) Denmark: 196  (All white atheists, retired vikings.) Sweden: 199 (Muslimic immigrants to atheist country.) Suisse: 214    (Most males have assault rifles at home.) Netherlands: 216   (Less drug war.) USA: 233 Deutschland: 301    (Half of them are Nazis.) Austria: 320             (              ""            ) United Queendom: 333      (Whistles and sticks.) Ireland: 342             (Drunken brawls.) France: 369 Greece: 452       (I guess they can afford it.) Turkey: 484       (And strong military.  In numbers.) Portugal: 485    (wtf?!  No drug war.) Italia: 552          (Have too much money?!) Russia: 773        (All MVD cops, not just uniforms.) The following numbers are: cops per 100,000 capita: 

Iran: 55              (lol!  Also no gays.)
China: 120        (Obviously not counting Thought Police.)
Norway: 158           (Norwegians.)
Canada: 195        (But Mounties should count triple.)
Denmark: 196  (All white atheists, retired vikings.)
Sweden: 199 (Muslimic immigrants to atheist country.)
Suisse: 214    (Most males have assault rifles at home.)
Netherlands: 216   (Less drug war.)
USA: 233
Deutschland: 301    (Half of them are Nazis.)
Austria: 320             (              “”            )
United Queendom: 333      (Whistles and sticks.)
Ireland: 342             (Drunken brawls.)
France: 369
Greece: 452       (I guess they can afford it.)
Turkey: 484       (And strong military.  In numbers.)
Portugal: 485    (wtf?!  No drug war.)
Italia: 552          (Have too much money?!)
Russia: 773        (All MVD cops, not just uniforms.)

]]> By: kroeghe http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1408796 kroeghe Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:10:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1408796  Not only black but also wearing dreadlocks - he's practically an enemy of the state.  Not only black but also wearing dreadlocks – he’s practically an enemy of the state.

]]> By: Ipo http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1408792 Ipo Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:53:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1408792  Where is that?  I'm living in a country in Central Europe, and I'm not aware of any  countries neighbouring to the west where equality, human rights and liberty aren't just empty phrases to justify wars and win elections.  Holland?  I thought Sweden fit your description best but is northern.  I wanna go to your country.   Where is that? 
I’m living in a country in Central Europe, and I’m not aware of any  countries neighbouring to the west where equality, human rights and liberty aren’t just empty phrases to justify wars and win elections. 
Holland? 
I thought Sweden fit your description best but is northern. 
I wanna go to your country. 

]]> By: Ipo http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1408783 Ipo Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:33:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1408783  It is mighty peaceful in the parts where everybody is a white, conservative Christian.  I imagine, as I haven't been there.   It is mighty peaceful in the parts where everybody is a white, conservative Christian. 
I imagine, as I haven’t been there. 

]]> By: Ipo http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/portland-prosecutor-says-innoc.html#comment-1408780 Ipo Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:22:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157283#comment-1408780  Just a few bad apples.  In the apple sauce.   Just a few bad apples. 

In the apple sauce. 

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