Title: Ferret Mike's friend Videotaped While educating police dumb enough to stop him Source:
You Tube URL Source:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KHd6eAUjGM Published:Sep 27, 2008 Author:Tim Lewis Post Date:2008-09-27 18:23:18 by Ferret Mike Keywords:None Views:995 Comments:89
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5 EPD vehicles pull over a car in the Whiteaker neighborhood and the cops handcuff the wrong person while they get a ear full.
Poster Comment:
Henry and I go back a long way. He is a hard working woods worker who owns his own home and has spent many years planting trees, doing pre-commercial thinning of tree stands, fire bossing twenty man single resource wild land fire crews, and has been a political activist for many years.
He won a large settlement when railroad dicks slammed him to the ground on tracks near his home accusing him of trespassing the right of way while retrieving his dog so he could go to work.
He also had a memorable moment in Salem with a fellow activist who had hung a dummy of the Children's Service Department director in effigy on the State Capital grounds protesting heavy handed interference in people's lives when they pulled kids, usually because they objected to the parent's political and social outlook on life.
The legislature was in session and the Republicans then and they heard about the dummy, so they came out directly from the House chamber to scream at him and "how dare him" because the then director was an African American woman.
That made the papers at that time, and Henry and I go a long long way back having worked and run together for decades.
His parents were college professors before retiring, and Henry is very politically informed.
Tim Lewis has been the Cop Watch organizer for a long time and has restarted the organization. One I have been arrested doing work observing and videotaping for. The police were very much irritated and intimidated by the camera and this helped convince them to take the cuffs off as you see them do.
Shine On, the woman with the pulled back dreads is a very close friend of mine as well. This is also my neighborhood. We will be producing and posting more Cop Watch videos as we get the organization back up to speed.
I agree, and my whole point of joining the Free Republic's corps of blockhead posters was to listen to what conservative had to say and to see where the left and right had common cause way back in the late nineties.
My perspective is the right is the least capable of communicating and working well with people who do not share their point of view and doctrine. And this is a shame, because dividing people is a core tactic of the powers that be, and they like to see people play people off each other until nobody is talking with one another or even remotely getting along.
Many on the right have the opposite perspective, but this is one of many dynamics about points of view we need to understand if people of different perspectives are ever going to ever be able to unite when it is important to do so to ensure mutual defense.
A united community always gives the ubers pause to act to control and oppress.
This must change. When you make it hard for them to pick one group off at a time, everyone is protected.
We must learn to protect each other against common enemies, or none of us will have our separate and cherished different perspectives to enjoy and associate in regards to any longer.
My perspective is the right is the least capable of communicating and working well with people who do not share their point of view and doctrine. And this is a shame, because dividing people is a core tactic of the powers that be, and they like to see people play people off each other until nobody is talking with one another or even remotely getting along.
We're going to differ on this one, as I think to a large extent this is a partisan observation. We are an individualist and self-reliant people who find it difficult to let down our interpersonal barriers even to the extent of spending time with people with whom we have no immediate need to interact, let alone forming idealogical alliances and activity patterns. This has tended to work against us, and it presents an indifferent and "intolerant" face to the world. But what of that world? It has been changed around us by force of government policy, immigration policy, and foreign policy. It has been changed around us by the information revolution and the onslaught of increasing levels of socialist reform.
It would be better not to stand out in the middle between our two peoples and say that because we are rednecks, we are more vulnerable to the challenge of divide and conquer. That's a gross misrepresentation of our way of life. We do not want to be involved with community organizers. We do not want to be shackled to collectivized patterns. That is exactly what has backed up our ire. To truly respect our diversity, one must accept that we want to be left alone to thrive. That we can do under a variety of circumstances. But to demand that we collectivize as a sign of our good will is to ask us to become something we'd rather not be.
Now I realize I am making some generalizations here. Rednecks took government cheese, welfare, and Works Progress jobs. Of course. And rednecks can be racist and intolerant. But some of us were the people who joined Lincoln to fight slavery. Some of us fought to save Jews in Europe and liberate the Chinese from the Japanese in Asia. We have had freedom in this country because of redneck sensibilities. We need to find common ground beyond the old cliche that rednecks are divisive by nature. And we can. I know you can — and have, too. I just wanted to point that out.
We're on the receiving end of the restructuring by government fiat. That's why we bristle so much. But we don't all bite, and we know that the same globalist forces are raping the wilderness, enslaving third world workers, polluting the public water sources, misinforming the youth in our educational systems, and manipulating the monetary system for someone else's benefit besides the common people. There is much to unite us, but the issue of abolishing our ethnic concerns is not one of them. And for "diversity's sake" it shouldn't even be on the table. We are now part of the diversity quilt, as an inevitable minority group. Welcome us as such.
We must learn to protect each other against common enemies..
People such yourself seem to be part of the problem. Any group that trains police to act like the Gestapo would be considered an enemy in my book, yet you support them.
but this is one of many dynamics about points of view we need
to understand if people of different perspectives are ever going to ever be
able to unite when it is important to do so to ensure mutual defense.
our mutual defense against whom, Mike? we can't even
agree on who and what is [our] common enemy. i believe your heart's in the
right place, but i also believe your ideal of unification (i view it as
collectivism) causes you to be closedminded at times.