If cop stops you for any reason, show respect
The motorist was in the lane next to my car.
Both of us were headed east on Jimmy Carter Boulevard. Traffic slowed, then stopped at a light just before we reached the bridge over I-85. The young man, a 20-something, apparently liked the song playing on his car stereo. He bounced his upper body. He moved his shoulders. He nodded his head to the beat.
A Gwinnett County patrol cruiser was traveling in the far-right lane, one over from me and two lanes away from the jamming motorist in the tan Ford Taurus. When the traffic light turned green, the police officer let two cars pass. Without signaling a turn, he pulled ahead of my car. Soon as he could, the officer eased behind the Taurus. Patrol car lights flashed. The Taurus crossed over the interstate bridge and pulled into the parking lot of a title loan business.
This little slice of life that unfolded in the middle of a Sunday occurred within days of the now-infamous Ryan Moats incident. Moats, a running back for the Houston Texans, was rightfully stopped by Dallas Police Officer Robert Powell for rolling through a red light with his hazard lights flashing. He was rushing to the hospital where his wife’s mother was dying of breast cancer.
Moats didn’t get to see her before she died, though. Powell, a three-year member of the force, kept him tied up in the parking lot. On purpose. Moats tried to explain the emergency. The in-dash-camera shows Powell verbally berating Moats.
“I can make your night very difficult,” he said at one point.
After viewing the footage, Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle said the officer’s behavior was inappropriate. Powell, who admitted he used poor judgment, eventually resigned.
Please know that I know law enforcement officers have a tough job.
Cops deal with plenty of thugs, miscreants, nuts and low-lifes. They get conned, called names, disrespected. It’s a dangerous society, so they have to be careful, on guard, ready, smart in the streets. They also have to assess situations, quickly sort out details, take charge. For our safety as well as theirs. And it’s greatly appreciated.
Like any profession, though, there are good cops and bad cops. No doubt the professionals outweigh the rogues. If not, there’d be anarchy.
But there has to be a sense of balance and fair play in order for the system to work for everyone. A badge and gun may indeed give cops the ultimate authority.
Don’t abuse it.
Well-trained cops know this. A few refuse to practice it.
Because of that, it’s particularly important that I pass on to my children — especially Miles — something one of my older brothers shared with me decades ago. When you encounter an officer for any reason, show respect. Say “Yes, sir,” and “No, sir.” When you’re stopped while driving, keep your hands, visible, on the steering wheel. Don’t make any sudden moves or gestures. Wait for the officer to approach the vehicle. When asked, hand over your identification.
Be smart. And safe.
I don’t know what led the officer to stop the young bobbing motorist in the tan Taurus. From my observation (I had noticed the young man at an earlier traffic light), the only violation he had committed was DWJ.
Driving While Jamming.
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108 comments Add your comment
Gail
April 18th, 2009
9:31 am
His music was probably too loud. I think there is an ordinance or law about that.
LT5000
April 18th, 2009
9:53 am
**If cop stops you for any reason, show respect**
Jesus, what a title. I think someone could use a grammar refresher course.
With such subpar English skills from their journalists, is it any wonder the AJC is imploding?
What was the point of this article? To tell Georgians something that they already know?
LT5000
Greg J. Quoiavma
April 18th, 2009
10:03 am
I agree 100%! While on vacation in a place called Budd Lake, NEW JERSEY, I was pulled over as I turned onto the street of the house where my family and I were staying. The officers surrounded my vehecle while holding a ready hand on their weapons. One of the three officers told me that they stopped me because I appeared to be lost. I was then asked to show my licence and registration. After running my info, the officer told me my licence was fine. He then asked me to unzip my sweater to show him why my waist seemed so bulky. I complied and was then asked to show him what was in a bottle that had cranberry juice in it. While all of this was going on, the other two officers were looking all around me and the vehicle with bright flash lights. After what seemed like an hour, but was maybe only half that time, the officer finally asked me what house number I was going to. When I replied, his next words were music to my ears; “YOU CAN GO”. The officer thanked me for my cooperation before allowing me to leave. I know that if I had not shown repect for the law, even if I was stopped for “DWB”,I always remember the words from a Denzel movie: “DO YOU WANT TO GO TO JAIL OR DO YOU WANT TO GO HOME”. Yes sir and no sir can go along way when stopped by the law.
James McCoy
April 18th, 2009
10:41 am
I have no respect for Law Enforcement period,they show no respect for me or my community,I look at cops doing only one thing occupying my community to contain me and other members of my community!For another example of why cops are hated see Bob Herbert’s column in today’s New York Times nytimes.com
Morty
April 18th, 2009
10:43 am
Well what do you expect for being in a such a run-down ghetto as Budd Lake, NJ. I will never go back to that hell hole, unless I’m looking for drugs or hookers.
nanas
April 18th, 2009
10:45 am
James McCoy, you are an idiot.
James McCoy
April 18th, 2009
10:48 am
No nanas until you walk in my shoes,keep your ignorant comments confined to your nightly KKK meeting!Have a nice day if that’s possible?
Jack
April 18th, 2009
10:59 am
If kids act like druggies, they’ll be treated like druggies. And I agree with, nanas: McCoy is worse than an idiot. And LT5000 is not far behind him.
Michael H. Smith
April 18th, 2009
11:22 am
Okay, I’m game for your questions.
What was the point of this article? To tell Georgians something that they already know?
Could be a simple reminder: Show respect for the law and those who are sworn to enforce it.
Or, it could be a nothing article, fodder to avoid the more pressing issues before us: Like an American President who disrespects America all over the world by condemning the country on foreign soil apologizing for every conceivable policy misstep, rather real or purported, by friend or foe?
Or, it could be a smoke screen to keep the focus off an out of control DHS compiling lists of people that hold political views that challenge this current government for its conduct under the Constitution in refusing to secure the borders and enforce immigration laws.
You know like the bigoted paranoia which seems to yet prevail and that said: You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. Does anyone know if Obumer ever mentioned publically in great display the contributions that Jews and Christian have made to this country or is it only note worthy to cling to Allah?
Or worse, the “profiling and targeting” of America’s very finest men and women who return from honorable duty on foreign fields of battle that will always honor this country and their military service to it, which are now to be cast into suspect as “extremists” before any criminal acts are done on their part, any indictments are brought froth against them or any trail before a jury of their peers has convicted them of anything?
NOWICUNVME
April 18th, 2009
12:27 pm
Your chances for staying alive and/or out of jail are always better if you remain courteous and respectful. That being said…far too many cops abuse their authority. The youth in the tan Taurus probably did have his music too loud. That was probably his reasoning for pulling him over. I’m sure it didn’t stop there. The officer most likely assumed that the “jamming youth” had invalid registration or insurance, possibly a warrant, maybe even some narcotics in the car. Preconceived notions go a long long way in peoples minds. Especially police officers. The sheriff and police departments have been known from the beginning of time to operate outside of the law and get away with it. This is not my opinion, it is a known fact. Period. Many high profile cases have been balanced and unsolved I might add, on rogue, corrupt agencies. I disagree most officers are ethical and fair though. I believe the majority to show an extreme lack of integrity and morals. Nepotism runs rampant and wild within. Most officers will lie; even in court. One of the main reasons O.J. Simpson got away with double homocide was because of Mark Furhman. A great deal of America failed to understand that the celebration wasn’t because he got away with murder, it was because they believed the system FINALLY worked. You know, all that “innocent until proven guilty” “beyond a reasonable doubt” “if it doesn’t fit, you must acquit”. It took a million dollar dream team to do it though. How many normal, everyday working people can afford that type of defense?
Preconceived notions are REAL, and they are not going away. They affect decisions you make throughout your daily lives. They are passed on from generation to generation to generation. Go to the library. Read ‘Sons of Mississippi’ and a whole gaggle of truth about the history of law enforcement agencies and “the blue wall”. The wall is solid as a rock, and it will always be there. So, even when the good cops are good, they cannot and will not go against a fellow officer. Except when something goes terribly amiss. Like when elderly senior Ms. Johnston was gunned down in her own house. Yet and still, how much time are they facing altogether? Shouldn’t cops be held to the highest standards of the law, since they ARE the law??
I appreciate and understand that officers risk their lives for our protection daily. Far too many have paid with their lives. Sometimes, I can’t help but wonder if bad actions and attitudes just come with the job. We’ve heard of corrupt lawyers, judges, priests etc. etc., but when you carry a badge and a gun and represent the law, it’s a totally different playing field.
In closing, I’ll just add that for those of you who are tired and weary of the cries of injustice, how slavery is over, how people need to “get over it”, how the “race card” is always played….Remember this; You will never know racism unless you experience it first hand. The oppressed and the disenfranchised may not be in ‘bondage’, but the effects are still alive and well today, and in some cases WORSE. I don’t want to hear blame here and blame there. We all know there are criminals and low lifes in every single community and of every single race. The difference is how they are handled individually. BTW, can someone find out the outcome of PO Eric Harrison from Monroe PD in Walton County GA? There was an incident that occurred I believe in June of 2008 involving a young black male named Chris Wilburn. He called the youth derogatory names and used racial epithets. I believe he was given like a 2 day paid suspension and then went on his merry way. Some organizations were calling for his resignation, but then everything was just hushed up and forgotten. Does anyone know the final facts about this case, or can anyone find out? Sorry to beat the same old dead horse guys, but Georgia seems to be in a whole league of their own.
NOWICUNVME
April 18th, 2009
12:36 pm
Mr. Smith’s ADHD is obviously acting up again. He seems unable to stay focused on the task at hand. President Obama and family are Christians not Muslims. How long will you be bitter and angry that Obama is president and rightfully won the election? How long will you continue to misspell his name in your failed attempt to be humorous?
Word of advice Mr. Smith: TAKE YOUR RITALIN!
OBAMA 09
Michael H. Smith
April 18th, 2009
12:52 pm
Brucie, did I attack you or is it that I called into question your Obumer and his administration that has you reaching to turn up the oxygen bottle full throttle?
Turn down the nitrous oxide Brucie, perhaps you’ll learn your name again, instead of using assumed names like NOWICUNVME and James McCoy to hide your anti-Americanisms revealed by the content of your many comments.
Defeat Obumer ‘09
Michael H. Smith
April 18th, 2009
1:03 pm
Just a small salute to those who wear the badge since you’ve been trounced upon by one comment that tarnishes many, too many good cops for the wrong done by a few rotten apples so to speak.
My hat goes off to any man or woman that is a good cop and lives by the laws they enforce. I couldn’t do your job and I seriously doubt the people that condemn you could either.
Bruce Wilcox
April 18th, 2009
2:00 pm
Smith, the mouth that roared, your paranoia is showing again. I love it, I don’t even have to post to get him upset, booga-booga.
NOWICUNVME
April 18th, 2009
2:33 pm
Congratulations Mr. Smith! You’ve now graduated from the world of the feebleminded to just straight up and out retarded. I guarantee you that I am not an alias for Mr. Wilcox, Mr. McCoy, or any other blogger on this site or any other site. To tell you the truth, I really don’t even care if you choose to believe it or not either. Once again, I’m extremely dissappointed in your lack of judgement and common sense. Do you honestly believe that anyone that disagrees with you has to be affiliated with Mr. Wilcox? I really thought you were a tad smarter than the rest. You have been posting on this blog for quite awhile, much longer than I for that matter, yet you can’t even tell the difference and/or similarities between your Number 1 fan Mr. Wilcox, and others. Actually, I would call you the “Badie Blog Stalker”. Surely you jest, Mr. Smith. lol lol lol. Let me let you in on a little “secret”….It’s just not that serious. Oh, and btw I also think your comments and references to Mr. Wilcox’ oxygen dependency are lame and indicative of totally clueless moron.
OBAMA 09
Bruce Wilcox
April 18th, 2009
2:57 pm
One fine day my wife and I were crusing down 29, I spy a Lilburn cop on the side of the road up ahead looking for dangerous criminals. My wife was driving and as we approached he seen my beard and long white hair blowing in the breeze. After we passed I told my wife we’ll be pulled over shortly, she asked why and I told her that the cop has a thing about bearded, long haired old guys.
Sure enough just a few short miles down the road the light bar goes on. Seems the tag was loose and he wanted to make sure it wasn’t stolen? I told him I had a .38 on my right hip and I have a permit. Well Barney Fife jumped into action then, he told me to keep my hands in sight, I told him they were, I didn’t the poor lad to get confused. Next he came around and opened my door, he ordered me to unbuckle my seat belt by using my right hand and slowly get out of the car, next to give him my pistol by using two fingers, plus permit and drivers license, which I did.
He ran all the information and it came back clean. This is where it gets funny, he calls me over to the police car, guess he didn’t want my wife to hear, and asked me “When was the last time I smoked marijuana?”. Now you can push even the most easy-going guy over the line, I got mad, real mad, in a very loud voice, I told Barney that I was fighting fights while he was still crapping in his diaper, I don’t drugs, hell I don’t drink, now give me my stuff. He did and I pointed out the tag wasn’t loose, he said it was when we passed him, I told Barney he was full of it and left.
Profiling knows no color, if they want to stop you, they’ll find a reason, I did everything by the book but was still treated like I was on the Ten Most Wanted list.
Respect is a two way street.
Michael H. Smith
April 18th, 2009
5:09 pm
Does this blog still work or did Brucie break the thing?
Michael H. Smith
April 18th, 2009
5:25 pm
I guess he did.
JohnF
April 18th, 2009
5:58 pm
Rick, you are so right about the way cops have their guard up. Years ago I was riding one of those Japanese crotch rocket motorcycles up Buford Highway and you just can’t help but speed on those things..you don’t even know you are doing it. But I got pulled over..the cop got out of his car and I started to reach into my coat for my wallet, which is where I kept it..but from behind you wouldn’t know what I was pulling out of my coat..I saw the officer in my mirror and he immediately went for his pistol. I pulled my hands out and immediately took off my helmet and turned around and faced the officer..and said “sorry”. It was scary.
The Real Mark
April 18th, 2009
6:33 pm
Wouldn’t common sense be enough to tell you to not suddenly reach for things when confronted by an officer? I’m tellin ya, GA is full of morons. And yes, Bruce, NOWICUNVME, and James McCoy are indeed all the same person, it’s a little obvious. The wait 30 minutes before posting with a new name isn’t fooling me.
The One And Only Mark
April 18th, 2009
6:36 pm
I agree with The Real Mark.
Michael H. Smith
April 18th, 2009
7:21 pm
I’m glad to see Brucie or the AJC didn’t break the blog for everybody. Just don’t say anything against the “O” fella’s policies and everything will be fine.
NOWICUNVME
April 18th, 2009
9:04 pm
Has anyone been able to get the low down on the Monroe Pd debacle or not? I’m deeply curious at to what the outcome was. I mean genuinely concerned for this prime example of Americas finest. My curiosity continues to grow especially because of all the secrecy and hush hush behind it all. I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that supposedly Wilburn is supposed to be taking it court. Where are all the “know-it-alls” on this issue? Any takers? I’m waiting……….
Michael H. Smith
April 18th, 2009
10:13 pm
Go get the low down for yourself Brucie or wait until hell freezes. No one owes your anti-American ignorance the time of day.
Defeat Obumer ‘09
NOWICUNVME
April 19th, 2009
12:00 am
Brucie??? Man you southern hicks REALLY are dumber than a box of rocks! LMAO..ROTF..WMFUITA!!! Crying shame you have all the answers yet don’t even know what religion your President is.
Blow it all out your tailpipe Mr. Cleo! Your obsession with “Brucie” is as bad as the LT/Badie love affair…and borderline psychotic if I might add. Maybe it’s the water down here!??
OBAMA RULES 09
Bruce Wilcox
April 19th, 2009
2:43 am
It’s two o’clock in the morning…why isn’t anyone singing along? I’ll make a deal with you all, let’s have coffee when we all can can get together, either Starbucks on Indian Trail or the shop over in Norcross, then and only then can find out who’s, who. Tell you want it’s on me, uow can you beat that?
It would accompolish a few things I hope, one Mr. Smith could meet all the Bruce Wilcoxe’s out there, plus he could call grade school level names to my face with my promise I wouldn’t deeck him and maybe, just maybe LT5000 will leave his mommies basement.
To co-ordinate all this I guess we’ll have to not only ask Rick, but see who has the cajones to actually show up.
Cindy
April 19th, 2009
8:23 am
We could really do this blog topic justice and discuss it if anyone could (and would) put aside their tendencies to run with the usual prejudices, victimizations and insulting-one-another spiels
Rufus
April 19th, 2009
8:32 am
How does a guy who pulls along an oxygen tank and whines about buildings not being super handicap friendly think he is so tough? I don’t get it. Maybe I’m just too much of a realist. These are serious questions. At first I used to have sympathy for Bruce, especialy since I pictured him as a Santa Clause type with the white beard and old. Someone a little more respectful. But now I think I’d seriously have no problem lighting him up if I needed to. I’m starting to think that the whole Brucie character is nothing more than just some figment of some dudes imagination. Have you been winding is up all this time with all these multiple characters?
NOWICUNVME
April 19th, 2009
10:15 am
Sounds like a plan to me. I’m down! Will be out until late evening, so I’ll check back with y’all a little later. Let’s see how many of these yellow bellied, sap suckers are willing to dance.
It’s very difficult this MPD thing. Poor Sybil, now I know what she had to endure. lol
Have a beautiful day!
OBAMA 09
Michael H. Smith
April 19th, 2009
10:35 am
Uh Brucie, perhaps the shame is on you and your Obumer who had a Catholic school cover-up IHS, the name of Christ, before he would speak!
Not very Christian in my opinion. What was that verse in the book, something like: if you deny me before men I will deny you before my FATHER, isn’t that what Jesus said?
Brucie, any true believer no matter how strictly they may fellow or practice the teachings of Jesus Christ will not cover-up the name of Christ as your so-called Christian Obumer has done.
And, Mr. Smith has seen far too many Wilcoxs’ in his lifetime already and I disagree with all of them and their bigoted wacko skin color ethno-centric fascist socialists elitist agendas.
Defeat Obumer ‘09
PS. Brucie, your threats don’t bother me in the least tough talker. Remember this chump: Your right to sing your arms ends at the point of my nose. Like you said, I’m not a hard man to find. Oh, and did I say even for an old guy that I can still dance on my feet like Mohammad Ali and I don’t have to sit down to catch my breath after walking 150 feet across a parking lot?
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Now, back to a relevant point. It might change your prospective Mr. Badie to meet a few of the ex and retired cops I’ve known, good cops, which speaks for the vast majority of them. These folks have to deal with emotions that you and I will never face and we expect them to act like a saint at all times, hold things together and go on acting like nothing ever happened.
Have you ever asked a cop how many traffic facilities have occurred because some young person had their music turned up so loud it distracted their attention from their driving, Mr. Badie?
Now, think about the cop who has to visit some parent and inform them at 3 a.m. in the morning their little bee-bopping angel was just scraped of the asphalt because they were distract from their driving by their loud music. Some mother cries: No not my baby, no God not my baby! With those screams of anguish still echoing in the cops head they answer a call hours later on some kid driving around in a neighborhood in a junk car and a $1,000 stereo system blasting, rattling the rooftops and windows for a couple of blocks around. Now when the cop stops this little darling playing the loud music and those screams of a grief stricken mother still echoing in their head, we expect this cop to hold things together and show no emotions whatsoever, right?
Yeah, respect. It really should be a two-way street.
Far too often it has been a one-way dead-end alley for too many good cops.
Bubba
April 19th, 2009
10:48 am
Enough of the sniping and personal insults. How this country has managed to exist and thrive with the hysterical cacophony of “who can put whom down with more personally offensive vitriole” gamesmanship is beyond me.
Back to the matter at hand. One the one hand, I feel for cops. There aren’t enough of them, they aren’t paid nearly enough for the responsibilities that they uphold and enforce, and the officer who is “full of it” for the loose plate traffic stop is the savior for breaking up an attempted assault on a pregnant be three masked men, only to go back to being “full of it” on the next day’s traffic patrol.
On the other hand, the police force is strewn with Dirty Harry, Roscoe P. Coletrain and Sheriff Lobo wannabes who like how they look in the mirror with a shiny badge, a good sized gun, a billy club and a taser that, combined with an attitude of “my sh*t don’t stink” make them an equal or greater menace than the people from whom they are sworn to “protect and serve.”
Hero or villain? There’s no right answer either way. Both, I guess. But our society has become so focused on seeing only black or white, only right or wrong that we can no longer talk about it, that we must scream from the top of our lungs “I’m right, you’re wrong, I’m smart, you’re stupid.” So I guess, in a sense, the police force is a microcosm of our society: some who do their job well because they believe in what they do, others because they have been bullies their whole lives and see law enforcement as a perfect venue in which to continue and expand their thuggery.
A possible solution would be to divorce traffic enforcement from law enforcement. The cop who answers the 911 call about a break-in at your house cannot be the same person who tried to write you a ticket that afternoon. It would establish a better trust between police and citizen, and it would make it easier to sort through who is abusing their authority without needing to denigrate the whole of law enforcement in general. It’s a concept that is vague now and would require some discussion on the details. In my opinion, though, this kind of discussion is much better and productive than calling someone a nazi or a santa claus with an oxygen tank whose brain is O2 deprived.
Anyone can whip out an insult. Far fewer can offer a reasonable discussion or a potential solution. We now return you to the “slap upside the head banter” already in progress.
Jack
April 19th, 2009
10:53 am
Traffic facilities?
Michael H. Smith
April 19th, 2009
11:05 am
My bad Jack I didn’t proofread and edit like I should have. “Fatalities” is the correct word and spelling and fellow should have been “follow”
@ Bubba – did I attack the liberal dummy in going after his Obumer which by the way, is the right of any citizen to criticize any politicians or elected officials? No I didn’t.
Nah, Brucie is one of those that can dish it but can’t take it. To him the end justifies whatever means including lying like a rug and using false names to hide behind.
James McCoy
April 19th, 2009
11:13 am
I could work with a person like Jack with the approach he spelled out,but because I live in the real world,I know it’s not many people who would relinquish their extremes!
nanas
April 19th, 2009
11:18 am
James McCoy, you are still an idiot.
James McCoy
April 19th, 2009
11:45 am
And nanas you are a good example of why we need to send our kids to school 51 weeks out of the year!
deborahinAthens
April 19th, 2009
11:49 am
My son, who is white, worked at a diner while going to college. After cleaning up, he was usually on 316 coming home after midnight. At least once a month, he was stopped by the Gwinnett County Police. They would ask if it was okay to search his car. He always said yes. I was horrified! I told him that he didn’t have to give them permission to search his car. Without probable cause they had no right to stop him and certainly no right to search his property. He looked at me as though I was insane. He said if he didn’t let them search, there was not doubt that they would either arrest him or beat him up. This is not the America that I believe in.
Michael H. Smith
April 19th, 2009
12:03 pm
Brucie you are a good one to talk about “extremes” or spelling for that matter.
It’s my fat fingers and these small keys… yeah, right! LOL
Man-up and admit when you are wrong, RUG.
Josh
April 19th, 2009
12:15 pm
deborahinAthens, you sound just as stupid as your son for basing your “America that I believe in” solely on your sons feeble minded opionion of the police. No, they would not beat him him nor arrest him for denying a search. They’d call a K9 down to sniff around the car just to be sure, but then they’d send him on his way.
Most DUI’s are out there on the road during those hours your son is driving. The fact that they are checking him out every once in a while to make sure he’s not a criminal IS the America that I believe in.
Now go tell your son to not be such a coward and stand up for his rights if he wants to. It’s ok! The fact that he’s such a wimp probably came from his moronic mothers upbringing.
Charlie Kane
April 19th, 2009
12:24 pm
Remember what Gordon Liddy said about how to deal with cops.
James McCoy
April 19th, 2009
12:40 pm
Josh,if the the State of Georgia ever decided to start openly recruiting robots,you would be their #1 recruit!
Josh
April 19th, 2009
12:52 pm
Since the police are beating everyone up all the time, the civil lawsuits must be breaking this county! Oh wait, that’s right. There isn’t an influx of lawsuits in regards to police violating peoples rights. Gee, I wonder who the morons are.
nanas
April 19th, 2009
1:02 pm
James McCoy, I bet you take it on the chin like you take it up the keester.
James McCoy
April 19th, 2009
1:05 pm
nanas I have changed my mind with the comments you keep making we need schools open 52 weeks 15 hours 7 days!
The original Mark
April 19th, 2009
1:26 pm
Cops are nothing more than arrogant, inconsiderate Barney Fife’s. I bet most were bullied as children. Anyone who would take a job that risks thier life for $30,000 a year has to be a total moron. I call them now what I called them in the 60’s. Pigs…..
"Charles", The Original
April 19th, 2009
7:00 pm
Good cop or bad cop? I’ve been there, and done that. Initially, every cop is good. But after several years of on the job training, the officer learns how to mask the affect of countless incidents occurring in his/her zone and inside the department. Within three years, the process automatically transforms a good cop into a callous bad cop.
I ‘m startled when young men and women choose law enforcement as an occupation, “hoping to make a difference”. Apparently unbeknownst to persons outside the system/culture of law enforcement, it is the system/culture of policing that does the molding or makes the difference. And there’s very little that can be done about it. It’s one of those necessary evils.
NOWICUNVME
April 19th, 2009
8:24 pm
Oh and if they let y’all non driving, non signaling, going 20mph on a 55mph highway talk on a cellphone and drive, how could listening to loud music be any more dangerous than that?? Think before you post Mr. Cleo!
OBAMA 09
jim d
April 20th, 2009
7:27 am
Rick,
Obviously you’ve never ridden a motorcycle cross country with a hispanic girl on the back of the bike. Profiling really sucks and causes one to have less than stellar respect for police that practice such tactics.
HAGD.
Rollo
April 20th, 2009
11:46 am
James McCoy, if you knew who your daddy was you might not have such a rough time. Dumb dumb dumb.
Rage Against the Machine
April 20th, 2009
12:47 pm
My old Major Burt Blannott R.I.P.used to tell us that no matter how good you are, or how honorable your intentions are, you will never be appreciated or accepted. If you want to be loved, get a dog or go to the Fire Department ( I did for a while.) Because no one wants to be told what to do. Everyone is smarter than you. And you will always work for them. I love my job. I’m honest and dedicated. As are the vast majority of those in uniform. After 23 years, I don’t answer to you. I answer to my conscious. As do most of us. Badie, you are being lazy. This is too easy of a topic to bring out the total ignorance in your readers. Everyone on earth has a bad cop story. Hell, even I do. But you know what it doesn’t matter one bit. Because as my old Sergeant Mike Davis used to tell us. “It is what it is.” Now that is freakin wisdom. Get a life people.
James McCoy
April 20th, 2009
12:54 pm
Rollo get a life!
Bruce Wilcox
April 20th, 2009
1:51 pm
Rufus, Rufus, Rufus, if you only read the entire column, I realize it is a strange concept to some, you would have noticed that Smith was insulting me before I even posted? Now here is something to work on Rufus, with Smith the paranoid believing I am several different people maybe the one without the 02 would be the one doing the decking.
As far as the 02 Rufus, it’s a temp thing, just a few more months, the complaint about the conditions at the Justice Center was to bring attention to the problem not just for myself, but for the many others that use the building. You could see most of the responses with positive for the changes, oh that’s right, I forgot you never read the entire column.
Hey Smith, you make your wife check under the bed everynight to make sure there are no monsters under it, booga-booga?
A cat
April 20th, 2009
3:28 pm
Meow.
Michael H. Smith
April 20th, 2009
4:38 pm
You mean before you posted under your real name Brucie, after you attacked me under one of your many false names for rightly jumping on Obumer. Now you have the rest of the story Rufus.
Only people who lie like you and use assumed names like you, are paranoid Brucie. As others have pointed out to you Brucie, “you are far too obvious” and the content of your comments always gives you away: If it quacks like a Brucie, waddles like a Brucie, it’s probably Brucie.
And BS on most of the comments agreed with you Brucie on your crybaby piece of tripe about GJAC. Several comments nailed you to the wall and one absolutely demolished you and your playing the poor concerned victim with COPD.
Hey Brucie, turn up your O2, you brain dead phony. You’re even less convincing now than ever before. But please don’t stop struggling on my account to get out of the trap you laid for yourself and got caught in. This public display of your desperation is better than the dictionary definition of paranoia.
NOWICUNVME
April 20th, 2009
7:49 pm
No Mr. Smith..YOU are the one who is paranoid and obsessed. Mr. Wilcox forget about him. It’s a worthless cause. I mean what else could you do besides organize a get together at Starbucks, a well known, quite often crowded establishment. Not ONE person, except me, came forth to prove to these moronic idiots that you and I are 2 totally different people. Mr. Smith continues to skip and evade the issue. F%#% EM!! Nobody else piped up either. You have to ask yourself why? Why?…Because for some reason the brain power down here is lacking terribly. No common sense, slow, can’t do two things at once, takes things literally when there’s clearly a pun intended. You actually have to spell out everything before they can even begin to grasp onto a sense of reasoning. I swear I’m not trying to be malicious, but I’ll be in Georgia coming up on 3 years, and alot of y’all are really just plain dumb as hell! Could it have been a bad batch of anesthesia in the hospital during births? the water? the air? the crops? I don’t get it. It’s quite mind boggling. I do have to tell you this Mr. Wilcox…Take it as a compliment, because in order for you to have been pulling this off for so so long, is to me nothing short of pure genious.
BTW..I never posted up on the blog concerning the walkway at GJAC, but I’ll take the liberty of doing it now. Having been in NY for 9/11, I understood the need not to have such close access to the front of the building. However, any person with any reasonable amount of intelligence can see that this place is clearly not handicapped accessible for ANYONE handicapped. That cobblestone walk is another irritating problem ESPECIALLY for anyone wearing any type of a heal. After walking thru that maze of a mess, you could END up being handicapped by the time you leave. I think it was a good, well worth written article and topic of discussion.
Mr. Wilcox, would you mind helping out a citizen in need and hand over your 02 to Mr. Smith in those few months? He most definitely needs some fresh air pockets flowing to his medulla oblongata! What a shame, the mind is such a terrible thing to waste.
Still nothing on the prejudiced bigoted Monroe cop who arrested that young black male Wilburn? Wowwww. He must have been a relative to some high up politician or official or something.
It’s been real nice chit chatting with you good folks. Enjoy the rest of your evening. 24 is coming on in a lil bit. Jack Bauer is one BAMF!
OBAMA 09
Jake B
April 20th, 2009
7:59 pm
Bloggers be advised that police are covertly monitoring this blog due to it’s title. Police control of free speech/thought on open media is indeed a sign of bad things.
If you receive any threat from an unknown source it’s them.
Bruce Wilcox
April 20th, 2009
10:10 pm
NOWICUNVME, I wouldn’t waste the 02 on Smith just clear his hangover, you see he drinks a lot, his mind is fogged by the years of drinking. He is a paranoid-physco, you know the type that thinks every car behind him is following him, but they’re clever, they change cars so quickly, even the mailman is one of them. If it wasn’t for Smith buying all those tin hats, another industry would fall.
It’s people like Smith and Dufus that park in the Handicapped spots because their fat asses are more important than some handicapped person.
NOWICUNVME, I’ve been down here since 93′, believe me it doesn’t get any better, sad to say it’s getting worse.
LT5000
April 20th, 2009
10:31 pm
Brucie,
I’ll buy you the one way ticket back north. I’m sure Michael would chip in if you want to take your jock sniffing buddy NOWICUNVE. Maybe you two can get legally married in Massachusetts at Barney Frank’s summer cottage.
How about that Obama? Trillion dollar deficits and he want to cut, 100 million? Yes, that million.
Then he’s yucking it up with his commie buddy Chavez in Latin America while releasing top secret CIA memos.
What an amateur. And this is his first 100 days. How long before the Statue of Liberty is transformed into KArl MArx?
Brucie please leave and take your northern moron buddies with you. No one will miss you. Except Blubbering Badie, he won’t have anyone to hold hands with while he walks around GJAC.
LT5000
Bruce Wilcox
April 20th, 2009
11:12 pm
LT you’re a complete idiot, but you also maybe Smith, makes sense. Look it, Lincoln imposed the first income tax, why to fight the South that attacked the United States of America, Reagan put us over the Trillion dollar mark, Pappy “READ MY LIPS” Bush raised taxes, Clinton actually had a few years of surpluses, what did Pappy’s idiot son do, give it back and cut taxes all before 9/11 and drove this country and it’s economy into the ground. Imagine, more died under the idiot son than the last five Presidents. The idiot son doubled the National Debt in his eight years, all this while fighting two wars and cutting taxes for the rich.
Eight years of the idiot son, fourteen years of a Republican Congress against two years of a Democratic Congress and less than a hundred days of President Obama.
Tin hat time LT Smith.
Michael H. Smith
April 21st, 2009
1:46 am
Brucie advises Brucie-CUNVME, how convincing.
Brucie claims Brucie-CUNVME stood up for him, how paranoid delusional.
Brucie-CUNVME says Brucie doesn’t want to attack me, how laughable. Even though it usually requires more than one of him to attack just one me.
Brucie, through interpreter Brucie-CUNVEME, now tells everyone that wears heels, ESPECIALLY no doubt, anyone wearing spike-heels how irritating it can be to walk over deadly dangerous cobblestones.
Uh… how many handicapped people wear high-heel shoes? Brucie perhaps?
Any sane woman ever wear high or low heel-shoes with the purpose in mind they’ll need them to walk over cobblestones?
Yes indeed, a mind is a terrible thing to waste but when all you have is two dysfunctional oxygen deprived brain cells left to use, it is understandable why Brucie would walk or try to walk, over cobblestones wearings his high-heel shoes. All the 02 in the world can’t bring the brain dead back to sane reasoning.
Of course, sane women, unlike Brucie, know how to get around personal problems without any difficulty or government dependency needed. They have sense enough to wear appropriate shoes for walking over cobblestones and they bring their heels with them separately and change shoes once they will be walking on surfaces designed for wearing heels. Bravo ladies you’ve all passed the live brain test Brucie flunked.
Keep struggling Brucie, try posting under more “assumed names” maybe then the same old bigoted comments, personal attacks and compliments made back to yourself will convince some delirious fool that Brucie by any other name is not Brucie Wilcox.
@Jake B- Too late Jake, your name just went on the DHS extremists list with that comment. Obumer doesn’t like open media or anyone that says anything bad against monitoring and controlling free speech and thoughts, especially the ones that disagree with his own and those of his administration. If you have a tin cup save it; we’re all going to need it after Obumer spends the country out of existence to hold our daily ration of rice from China, our new owners.
Michael H. Smith
April 21st, 2009
5:08 am
Sorry LT, I gave to the government already to get rid of Brucie: I-20, I-75, I-85 all lanes open – OUTBOUND!
However, I’ll be joining the next TEA PARTY. Hopefully there will be one on the 4th of July to protest a laundry lists of grievances: Spending, Obumer-care, Bailouts, AIG Fannie and Freddie bonuses, loans to auto companies, Obumer’s flip-flop, now campaign lie, on redoing NAFTA, Obumer’s 90% lie to control guns and no control of the border with Mexico etc. Of course, the GOP will again hear from me for their betrayal of conservative principles just like the Democrats shall for being the socialists that they always will be it seems.
Our cops and all of us would be alot safer if the border with Mexico was truly secured and Obumer would enforce the immigration laws instead of violating his oath of office as he has done by refusing to uphold them.
LT5000
April 21st, 2009
8:27 am
Brucie conveniently forgets that BJ Clinton wouldn’t have balanced the budget if it weren’t for the Republican Congress and the unprecedented growth brought on by the Reagan tax cuts.
Also we wouldn’t have suffered 9-11 if Bill Clinton had his eye on terrorism instead of the back of Monica Lewinsky’s head.
As for the current financial crisis, we can thank Bill Clinton’s changes to the Community Reinvestment Act and Barney Frank’s boy toy at Fannie and Freddie. And let’s not forget Obama’s financial advisor Franklin Raines.
Somehow Brucie the ever present dumbass thinks Obama is going to save America with trillion dollar debts, handshakes with Chavez and a World apology tour. With the occassional Special Olympics joke thrown in.
Have a nice candlelight dinner with Badie at Denny’s tonight.
LT5000
James McCoy
April 21st, 2009
10:50 am
Who open the doors to the asylum?
Jefferson
April 21st, 2009
1:10 pm
What an angry group, ya’ll need some meds.
LT5000
April 21st, 2009
1:34 pm
James,
Your grammar rivals Badie’s second grade skill set.
LT5000
Bruce Wilcox
April 21st, 2009
3:01 pm
Jefferson LT has always been a wack job, Smith has only become this paraniod wack job over the past several months, change of meds or just hitting the bottle more?
One runs out of cheeks to turn, now it’s attack me and I’ll return the favor.
LT, if Reagans tax cuts led to the growth of the 90’s, why was Pappy Bush forced to raise taxes? Remember Clinton backed down little Newt and the GOP Congress several times. Speaking of Newt, did you forget that he was having his own affair while sitting in judgement of Clinton and that is why he resigned, and Livingston picked to replace him, couldn’t accept because he was having an affair? Finally are you suggesting that the GOP Congress for six years or it’s President of eight years were not bright enough to see what you say Clinton pulled off right under their noses, you wonder why lost?
Can’t edit the facts LT.
Michael H. Smith
April 21st, 2009
4:45 pm
Yep, give me the meds. From the most liberal court in the land came a decision that would knock any conservative over with a feather. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ~ Nordyke v. King – Individual Right to Bear Arms Applies to State, Local Governments
While a few sections of the Bill of Rights apply only to the federal government, amendments that protect fundamental rights – including the Second Amendment – can be enforced against the states, said Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain in the 3-0 decision.
“The right to bear arms is deeply rooted in the history and tradition of the republic,” O’Scannlain said, citing selected passages from speeches and writings during the colonial and post-Revolutionary War period and the years leading up to the Civil War. “It is a means to protect the public from tyranny” as well as “to protect the individual from threats to life or limb.”
Judge Ronald Gould, in a separate opinion, pictured a gun-wielding citizenry defending 21st century America against invaders or terrorists.
“That we have a lawfully armed populace adds a measure of security for all of us and makes it less likely that a band of terrorists could make headway in an attack on any community before more professional forces arrived,” he said.
“Adds a measure of security for all of us”: It certainly would do exactly that if the gun laws now on the books were enforced and the cited limits by Justice Scalia were applied properly. As I disclosed earlier I know a few ex and retired cops, one in particular and I have a discussion going on about assault weapons or semi-automatic guns which he doesn’t believe should be in the hands of citizens. His reasons from an aspect as a cop having to go up against that type of fire power is understandable, though, from my perspective an armed pro-law and pro law enforcement citizenry with that type of fire power is a definite plus for a lone cop or two if they are ever out numbered and out gunned by criminals in a neighborhood before help arrives.
Roska
April 21st, 2009
7:53 pm
Rick,
Can I please request that you post some topics on the blog that reflect what’s happening in Gwinnett?
We’ve got Korean and Mexican immigration fraud in the headlines.
We’ve got a big property tax hike on the way.
We’ve got a bunch of money going into a ballfield that serves nobody.
We’ve got perverts in parks spying on little girls.
And this is just the stuff in the news over the last week!
There really is a lot you could be talking about in Gwinnett without milking the cop issue any more.
Roska out.
Rufus
April 21st, 2009
7:56 pm
Big talker 02 boy. I don’t think you’re in any position to start the name calling. Even with your padded helmet on you’d be no match for me. I tell you what, why don’t you step outside and start practicing falling down. I’ll be out in a minute.
Beverly Grizzle
April 21st, 2009
7:59 pm
Cops are only on the streets to set up speed traps and DUI road blocks on certain holidays. Their job is to collect fines for their prospective city. When they are being a “public servant” and, for example, directing traffic around an accident they are just as mean and rude as when they stop folks for so called “violations”. They make it up as they go along and heaven help you if you go to court because the powers that be have the cops back, not yours. Anarchy is alive and well in Gwinnett.
Bruce Wilcox
April 21st, 2009
8:20 pm
Dufus I’ve been outside waiting for about 15 minutes now, what gives, you invisble or is a minute different in your world?
NOWICUNVME
April 21st, 2009
8:24 pm
Well…I think Mr. Smith should start attending his AA meetings;start seeing a shrink to help him deal with his severe emotional distress over the Presidential election and help him accept the fact that the election is indeed over, and that Barack Obama and family, plus pooch now call the White House home;he should also ask the shrink for shock treatment therapy because he suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and delusions of grandeur.
Hey LT! They’re offering free screening for lobotomy candidates. They can probably fit you in within the next two weeks! Isn’t that great news?
Rufus??? Didn’t your parents tell you to be a leader, not a follower? Now, listen to your parents!
Oh, and Roska? Ummmm…I don’t mean to answer for Mr. Badie but I think every one of your topics were already covered on this blog. You must have missed those.
Good night to all;And to all, a good night!
OBAMA RULES FOREVER 09
NOWICUNVME
April 21st, 2009
8:30 pm
LMAO!!! Bruce, now that was funny!
Roska
April 21st, 2009
8:33 pm
My point was perhaps that Rick could cover the topics and actually interview public officials and present some news here?
Bruce Wilcox
April 21st, 2009
8:38 pm
Roska, cops are a very big Gwinnett issue, I hope they find that 5′9′ White male spying on that that little girl.
The ballpark has been covered and covered, but Bert’s Field of Dreams was filled, taxpayer subsidized, people have the nerve to talk about socialism when our own commissioners do it?
Property tax issue was covered in Rick’last or the one before column.
The illegals issue has been covered and covered and we still do not have the program approved for the jail, hey, what’s a year or two right?
Anything else not covered?
NOWICUNVME
April 21st, 2009
8:48 pm
I know that’s right! Definitely some lying, corrupt, unethical, immoral cops in Gwinnett. And it starts with Chief Walters on down the line!
Roska
April 21st, 2009
9:02 pm
Bruce,
I do see your point. I do.
But letting a bunch of bloggers rant about a given issue is not covering the news.
Rick has the bully pulpit to actually cover news. Since the AJC is supposed to be a newspaper I thought we could perhaps get some extended news coverage.
Hearing you, LT and MHS trade the same barbs is not the same as having the news actually covered.
That’s the point I was trying to make.
Jonathon
April 21st, 2009
9:02 pm
A priest, a pedophile, and a homosexual walk into a bar, and that was just the first guy!
Bruce Wilcox
April 21st, 2009
9:46 pm
Roska I see your point, but look at it this way, the powers that be do read this column, one even felt the need to respond, others send some cloaker to support their causes. So the message is being heard from the people, not a reporter.
Tell you what I’ll do Roska, I’ll ignore both LT and Smith, even when I’m attacked before I post. But that cannot stop someone from taking the subject off topic for personal rants.
You have to remember Mr. Smith thinks I’m half the people posting here, so he may keep chasing windmills.
Jonathon, good one!
Derek
April 21st, 2009
10:09 pm
The great thing about this blog is the freedom Rick provides everyone. Freedom to speak your mind, whether it’s to argue, go off topic, or whatever may have you. It promotes discussion in all forms, good and bad. I would like to thank Rick for not censoring his blog. Even the bickering and name calling can be entertaining.
Bruce Wilcox
April 21st, 2009
10:29 pm
Derek, making fun of the handicapped is entertaining to you? Pretty sad entertainment, I can take the chickendung, but those who may live with serious conditions may not. Read the article a few columns back, see how entertaining it is.
Every posting/commenting board can censor itself, too bad this board doesn’t have the cajones except for a few, to do it.
LarryC
April 21st, 2009
11:31 pm
Rick has been lassiez-faire about his blog comments and it obviously isn’t working. He needs to stop treating the comments section as a throw-off and take control of it. Not by being a bully, but by engaging in meaningful discussion with those that show interest in the topic.
Rick, the comments section **is part of your blog*** You will never build a community by allowing your blog to devolve into the wild west. It’s ugly and deters from you columns. This is in your control, if you would take the incentive.
Michael H. Smith
April 22nd, 2009
3:36 am
Nice try Brucie. None of your hogwash passes the laugh test. Except this one piece that probably makes it to at least to one level of the smell test:
“Every posting/commenting board can censor itself, too bad this board doesn’t have the cajones except for a few, to do it.”
- Applied to you!
Wilcox you are one of those people that can dish it but can’t take it. Has to go low ball every time you feel you are losing some argument. Someone can argue an issue without any personal attacks against another blogger and you go directly into a personal attack against them. You did that from the very first opening blog with me. From that point any tactic is fair game as long as you are the one doing it and it makes you feel you are winning something, which is really nothing in reality. Like so many others I’m very aware of how the game is played on blogs and forums: Using phony names, making multiple postings, posting back to yourself in approval and so on. In the end you won nothing and changed absolutely nothing.
I suppose when you’re retired with nothing else to do, nothing really seems like something.
The AJC probably won’t take a firm hand to things simply because of the entertainment value derived from the shenanigans. After all the AJC is a business with intentions of making money. Anything that livens up the readership no matter how off the wall it may seem that works to achieve the money making objective is worth enduring. Most mature readers understand this and treat it with about the same value they place on the WWF and the Jerry Springer Show.
Nevertheless serious issues do abound and unfortunately they go mostly unaddressed. That too likely will not change, all to the benefit of those who profit the most from keeping the status quo in place, which is about what the country has presently despite all that talk of “change”. If there has been any change, at least in my opinion, it has been for the worse. Partisanship remains about the same with neither party representing the interests of the people of this country they were elected to serve nor the good of the country itself.
One comment on this blog above all others I’ll admit really stopped me dead in my tracks, with an immediate answer I wanted to put up in response at that time but didn’t.
“Anyone who would take a job that risks thier life for $30,000 a year has to be a total moron. I call them now what I called them in the 60’s. Pigs…..”
So I’ll do it now: You’re probably right Mark, if it was just all about making $30,000 a year why would anyone be fool enough to risk their life, even if they had a bully syndrome to satisfy it really wouldn’t be worth it. The same could be said for the young men and women in the military today. It could have been said over 200 years ago for people facing a more certainty of death as they swore with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, they mutually pledge to each other their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. (even signing their real names to that commitment which meant they would surely hang for their words)
You might call all of this rather fool-hearted Pollyanna thinking, then again, it was just that sort of silly notion that gave birth to a nation, the greatest the world has ever known.
Perhaps preserving this nation, this Republic, that so many have given so much to have as a country is the real underlying reason men and women put their lives in jeopardy everyday on the streets across this great nation; and that is something $30,000 a year, hope of a government pension and a few pats on the head with a couple of at-a-boys thrown in can’t buy.
Until proven otherwise I’m going to have to give these men and women their due respect before targeting and profiling them all PIGS, RACISTS and publically barbecuing the hell out of them.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Derek
April 22nd, 2009
8:31 am
Handicapped people claiming to be able to beat up everyone on a blog IS most certainly entertaining!
LT5000
April 22nd, 2009
9:10 am
Brucie the resident moron certainly has the most revisionist view of history of any man around. One too many paint spattered chorizo has entered his mouth.
First, Reagan cut the top tax rates by 25% pulling out of the Jimmy Carter depression.
Bush 1 only lost reelection for one reason. That moron Ross Perot.
Which gave us the BJ Clinton years. Which would have been an utter failure, (remember Hillary Care?), if it weren’t for the Republican Revolution.
The Bush years were doing quite well until the Democrats took over Congress. Then Bawney Frank’s mess over at Fannie and Freddie, aided by the Clinton era changes to the Community Reinvestment Act resulted in a mortgage meltdown.
Now Bruice and NOWICUNVME think that Obama and his TRILLION dollar deficits, Chavez Handshakes, multiple tax dodging appointees and Janey Napolitano (Janet Reno part 2) are somehow going to spend this country into properity.
By the end of the Obama first term, people will think the Jimmy Carter years were a sweet dream.
LT5000
Bruce Wilcox
April 22nd, 2009
12:37 pm
Derek I never said that, besides if I did, I am everyone that comments here according to one. Plus I found Southerns have a hard time showing up unless they can do it as a group, so no worries there.
Derek
April 22nd, 2009
1:51 pm
Censorship is a Southern thing. I understand this. The Sunday Alcohol sales, the missing segments on TV shows. The South feels the need to be policed on mundane things for some reason. I first got a taste of this when they were playing “Let’s Get It Started” on the radio here when I was used to hearing “Let’s Get Retarded” everywhere else. That’s why I mention that it’s nice that Rick doesn’t censor things. Ironically though just making that statement brings out the true Southern reaction of “Please big brother, help us! We are not smart enough to deal with big boy situations on our own.”
Policeabuse.com
April 22nd, 2009
2:09 pm
It has come to our attention that certain members of the Duluth, GA police department have been covertly monitoring this blog and threatening posters with legal action.
It IS NOT the duty or authority of law enforcement to shape or manipulate public opinion. Blogs are not the police’s job. Anyone who has received a letter or email that you feel is intimidating or threatening is asked to report it to http://www.policeabuse.com immediately and provide us with as many exact details as you can.
LT5000
April 22nd, 2009
4:01 pm
Will Blubbering Badie climb off his fat can and address this Gwinnett issue?
**Federal prosecutors say Songwoo Shim, 47, of Lawrenceville, and In Young Park, 36, of Duluth, falsified documents and illegally obtained immigration approval for dozens of “students” who never attended the Duluth school.**
It’s in the AJC and it’s in Gwinnett. C’mon Badie if you can’t be a journalist at least act like one.
LT5000
Michael H. Smith
April 22nd, 2009
4:17 pm
No Sunday Alcohol sales is a religious thing. Just so happens the Bible belt and the South are in the same location. However, the temperance movement appears to have begun in the North.
The AJC did draw the line on (censor) some things like threats and nasty ethnic slurs at one time. As previously pointed out big brother can’t stand in the way of big money. That’s usually the way the big boys work things out.
herbK
April 22nd, 2009
5:24 pm
Cops need to die & go to hell. They are the jackbooted thugs we all love to hate. Nobody with a functioning brain will EVER respect cops. They are all trash.
GoodGrief
April 22nd, 2009
5:26 pm
Good grief, LT! If it’s already in the paper and in the Gwinnett section, why the hell does Badie need to rehash it?
C’mon, LT. If you can’t be an informed reader with things to do besides harass and harangue at least act like one.
anon
April 22nd, 2009
6:40 pm
with all the crime in Gwinexico and the cops have nothing better to do than raise revnue(speed traps) and look for prom dates
LT5000
April 22nd, 2009
9:26 pm
Good grief,
Pull your head out of your ass. Maybe you want Badie’s 7th story about Snellville or another story about a food co-op for dogs.
Blubbering Badie has long forgotten that he is supposed to be reporting about issues with Gwinnett County. He shouldn’t be hand holding our resident commie moron’s hand and bumbling around GJAC looking for things to complain about.
When was the last time Badie addressed Illegal Immigrant crime in Gwinnett?
LT5000
Chris
April 22nd, 2009
10:41 pm
If religious people are so worried about alcohol sales on Sunday than perhaps the law should be changed to just ban it from religious people. Oh wait, they banned sex with children and that doesn’t seem to stop them. I guess morals are easy to ignore when you can just ask for forgiveness all the time.
NOWICUNVME
April 22nd, 2009
10:42 pm
The question of the century! “When was the last time Badie addressed Illegal Immigrant crime in Gwinnett”?
Is it only me, or is this guy off? Just as off as I don’t know what! I sure hope this southern mentality isn’t contagious. I would think if the Illegal Immigrant issue was addressed ONCE, that would be enough. I certainly don’t want another column about illegal immigrants again. What the hell is everyone gonna say, the same thing?? What are you suggesting? Do you want Mr. Badie to report on illegal immigrant events like he was on Eyewitness News at 10? I mean really. What IS your malfunction? Mr. Badie gave you an opportunity to head the blog, do your thing, and you put your tail between your legs and wimpered away.
You were given opportunity to prove what a “big man” you were and you ducked that issue as well. (Don’t worry though, we all know the ONLY thing big on you is your mouth). You copped out on the Starbucks get together that Mr. Smith proposed as a solution to your and Mr. Smiths’ spurious allegations that I and Bruce Wilcox and James McCoy were all the same person. You’re beyond annoying and irritating. Your daily rituals are quite monotonous and mundane actually. Can you sing a different song? You know, a little spin here, a little twist there?
With all your negativity, may I ask why do you continue to visit and post on this blog? I mean if you’re not happy…move on! That seems like a pretty reasonable option, right or wrong?
Grow up! Put up! Show up! SHUT UP!………or Just Leave!…….please.
OBAMA 09
Michael H. Smith
April 22nd, 2009
11:49 pm
Good advice, especially the move on part. You should apply it to yourself.
Defeat Obumer ‘09
Orsetch
April 23rd, 2009
6:27 am
I know folk involved in this, and it’s deplorable what police are allowed to do.
susie Q
April 23rd, 2009
7:20 am
If the cop is respectful to me I am fine with him/her. My dealings with Dekalb PD which include our neighbor hood watch officer have been great and an 2 officers that wrote up an accident for me were also polite!! But some cop in Gwinnett County had problems with my NRA sticker. His attitude was horrible. typical liberal I am sure!
Sam
April 23rd, 2009
8:01 am
LT5000, get a job. Or are you one of those pseudo-intellectual types that can’t keep one because you’re not nearly as intelligent as you think you are?