I mean it in a “he really should be spending time in prison” kind of way.  Somehow his BS got me angrier than the two thugs that assaulted the kid on tape.

And that got me plenty angry.

The Japanese foreign invasions were based on a perceived “racial superiority”, which still exists to this day in the region.  They considered and still consider “foreigners”, such as the 10 million slaughtered during their thwarted expansion, to be inferior and basically worthy of being nothing but slaves to the “supreme” Japanese people.  Kill the men and enlist the women as, well.

This is not to justify any of these countries’ crimes, just to show that they are quite different in character.  Neither western economic imperialism nor eastern “pure race” expansion is dead, as we are seeing.

http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-05-04/news/the-nypd-tapes-inside-bed-stuy-s-81st-precinct/

Walking While White:

I was walking around the mostly haitian neighborhood (the non-yuppied side of town where I work in Delray Beach, Florida) like I do every day between 1pm and 2pm. A cop car was driving by and I decided to do an experiment. I turned and looked back at him like Alvin said he did in that video. I then kept walking in my random way around the streets. The cop would pull up to the end of the block and sit there and watch me walk, then when I turned the corner he’d pull up to the end of that block and watch me walk. This happened for about half-an-hour as I aimlessly walked from one block to another as I usually do. I would notice the car there when I would cross the street and look both ways. I also happened to be on the phone the entire time. 

This continued until I was getting pretty close to being back at work. The cop pulled the car into the alley ahead of me blocking the sidewalk. He got out and I told him to hold on, I was on the phone. I finished the call and asked him what was up. He asked me a bunch of questions, said I was circling a known drug house. I told him I didn’t know what houses were drug houses, I was just out walking around during my lunch break for exercise. He was incredulous. He said why were you circling a drug house and on the phone at the same time people in that house came out and were on the phone? He said do you do drugs? Have you ever done drugs? I said come on, I was just walking around like I do every day at this time. He continued on about the known drug house as the second car pulled up. I told him I walk north in the good neighborhoods, south in the bad neighborhoods, west and east at the marina. He said I’d rather you walk in the marina than around the drug house. I said I’m sorry I’m not taking my walks in the areas you’d prefer me to. He asked if I had any weapons on me. I said weapons? I’m at work. I’m on my lunch break. I’m going for a walk for exercise. He asked if he could pat me down. I said yes. He did. He asked me for my license. He once again went on about the known drug house. I asked him how would I know which houses are known drug houses? He said I looked back to look at him. He said I kept looking at him, and even did a U-turn. I told him I did a U-turn because I was at the train track (don’t know what would have happened if I took the foot path across the tracks where his car couldn’t go. Probably would have jumped out and arrested me for trespassing on the tracks). I told him I looked at him once, and that was it. I told him I looked at him as an experiment because I had just watched a video where someone was stopped for looking back at the police. He went on and on about the known drug house while waiting for my information to come back. When it did he gave me my license back. I asked him his name and walked off.  This is a lot different than what’s going on in NYC (can you imagine telling the cop there to hold on while you finished your call?). Also, I don’t think they ask first before frisking. And I wasn’t pushed, punched or yelled at. But, I was followed, and questions for merely being out for a walk (on a sunny day) in the area close to where I work. I was suspected because I just looked in his direction. I was put under the microscope because I did something I didn’t even know I did (walk near a “known drug house”). What if I wasn’t so lucky and had a swiss army knife on me? What if I did have some prior arrests? This is no trivial matter. Something needs to be done.

By any reasonable standard, that’s overkill.

http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012/06/15/500202/giancarlo-esposito-was-stopped-and-frisked-in-new-york/?mobile=nc

And, as with all authority figures (especially as with all insecure authority figures) it is absolutely essential that when they do address you, you demonstrate submissive language and tone of voice. (Which, by the way, I utterly suck at, after 50+ years I still haven’t learned to do a convincing job of imitating a submissive neurotypical. It’s hard!) Superior-to-subordinate communication style suggests to them that you think you’re above the law; peer-to-peer communication style suggests to them that you don’t respect their authority and will expect to be negotiated with when they give you an order.

* Once I again, I pass along a bit of wisdom I was given by a cop long ago: all cops graduate from the academy having learned to divide the world into three categories: (1) cops, (2) perps, and (3) potential perps. After at most three years on the job, most of them conclude that category 3 doesn’t exist.

Since I moved to the Netherlands that number has dropped to zero in 10 years.

…but if such a formal or informal set date or dates were selected to do a ‘Stop and Frisk’ of a select elite, I’m sure the whichever elite would, when stopped, heartily comply with a smile, perhaps make a few jokes about being hassled by the ‘Man’, then go on their venal way — Leading by Example don’t you know. This farce would then be used as yet another propaganda tool……much like the fundraisers in which people who can afford it pledge money then spend a day or less in a jail cell…

…or the so-called charity-balls that maybe contribute a few pennies to the needy but are really a cynical way to deduct the cost of the ball, and create the image of giving a flying f_ck about the needy.