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:977 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.
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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.
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.
Au contraire ma amie. It is not I that is closeminded, but think what you want. I never ask permission for my viewpoints, and I don't give a shit if they offend or others don't like then.
They are mine, I know why I have them, and they are well thought out. I also have a right to them, just as you have a right to yours'.
They are mine, I know why I have them, and they are well thought out. I also have a right to them, just as you have a right to yours'.
absolutely..and i never said or intimated otherwise. in thinking about it further, i think i erred using the word closedminded. maybe biased is better, but then aren't we all. we all see things through our own prisms and life's experiences. in any event, it wasn't meant to be a criticism, just an observation...and you certainly have the right to disagree or dispute it.
what do you think of my assertion that we can't even agree on who is our common enemy so how is it possible that we can unite and fight whoever that is together?
As long as Mike or anyone supports any person or part of this government we cannot have one iota of common agreement.
There is NO room for compromise with people that sanction the government, its owners nor its minions...
I disagree with Ferret Mike on a lot of issues, particularly his support for Obama. And it isn't even because I think that Obama is a "far leftist," it's because I think that Obama is just another political hack in the mold of Clinton or Kerry.
But how is Mike's support of Obama any worse than the support for McCain/Palin by many on this site? Why is it OK to compromise and make common cause with people who support neoconservatives but not with leftists?
Obama and McCain both voted Yes on the Debt Utilization and Monetization Bill (DUMB) that just passed the Senate
When it comes down to what matters, D and R are always on the same page. They vote together to bail out their Wall Street masters, and they vote together on wars and building the New World Order.
Their "disagreement" on stupid social issues of the week is just a sideshow.