Soooooo Quentin Tarantino has gone off the deep end
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Haven't seen a lot of news on the subject but have seen some. With that said, the news I saw said that he said we have a problem in this country with police officers committing murder. He didn't say all police officers are bad, nor did he say all police officers are murderers, etc.
If what he actually said is what I stated above, I wholeheartedly agree with him.
If what he actually said is what I stated above, I wholeheartedly agree with him.
He called cops murderers. He didn't restrict it in any way by claiming it was limited to those cases in the news recently. He made this claim just a few days after a NYC policeman was laid to rest. Now he claims that cops murder because of white privilege. Even his father called him out on his comments.
It's funny. About two weeks before he made these comments, he called for police help at his mansion in Beverly Hills because an unknown man was in his back yard.
His speech was meant to incite not bring people together. He is making the situation worse and it will cost people, most black, their lives.
He's lashing out because he doesn't want to be called to question for his use of racial slurs and tones in his movies. He and Spike Lee haven't always seen eye to eye on Tarantino's portrayal of African Americans in his movies.
In his defense, it's always within the context of the movies he's making, so it shouldn't be an issue.
In his defense, it's always within the context of the movies he's making, so it shouldn't be an issue.
Thanks WVPATX...... you are 100% correct. ******** like him are chauffeured to these events,incite the lemming, and then are chauffeured back into their gated estates.
By the same token, he did not qualify with "some", "a few" or any other limiting word or phrase that would suggest or state that "all" should not be a consideration.
Certainly not ALL police are murderers, but I do think that all of them need to look at what they are doing and reevaluate. You know that these things aren't new, they are just being caught on camera. In the past it would have just been the cop (or cops') word against the alleged perpetrator and the cops would always back each other good or bad or be complicit in the planting of evidence. It was right there are camera in the SC shooting where the guy was running away. No way that was a one-time, unique situation with those two cops and no other cops ever did the same thing. No way.
I don't mean that to paint all cops in a bad light either. I know quite a few and I'd bet that at least 99% of all of the cops are great, honest guys doing an extremely difficult job. It's just like everybody says about the Muslims ... why don't the good ones stand up and stop the bad ones. Same thing can apply to cops, can't it? Or any other group, for that matter.
I've said it numerous times even about our political parties. Pointing the finger at the other party doesn't make your party any better. Your party will only get better by demanding that they be better ... not just "less bad" than the other.
Seems that so many people want to offer a comparison or precedence as a valid reason to say an improper act is OK. Obama Administration spending is no worse than Bush who double the National Debt too. That means the next administration can double Obama and increase Debt by $20 trillion??? Reagan and Bush increased the Debt, therefore, it is perfectly acceptable for Obama to continue spending???
Running up debt for succeeding generations to pay is no problem since others previous to Obama did so? It has been done before is the reason offered. Also, we have to "split hairs" to make the rhetoric work. To make an acceptable comparison, it cannot be looked at in absolute terms for a comparison. We have to look at it strictly in terms of percentage increase. Of course we have to lie to ourselves to buy the argument, but that the damage is too far out of kilter is not germane. We are Ok as long as it has been done before.
Today the unemployment figure has dropped to a low for this administration. Let's dance in the street and drink champagne. That rate is comparable to Reagan, Clinton and Bush rate. It makes no difference that we have had a record number to drop out of the labor force because there are simply no jobs out there that they can get. Not enough money to buy gas to chase a job that is not available. Throw hands up and quit. But things are great that we have only 5% on unemployment rate.
Perhaps a little wordy.
There's not a single word in any of that that has anything at all to do with anything I said. I can only assume that you thought you were responding to something else in a different thread.
Comparatively speaking, you refuse to see a parallel? Compared to Muslims, cops never squeal on their own. Who played the comparable roll to Al Pacino to uncover bombings and fund raising by Muslim world? Most or probably all advanced departments have a division who monitors/investigates fellow officers. don't think Muslim communities have seen fit to provide such a watchdog.
The camera has not exposed todays cops to be compared to cops of the 20s. It is a totally different breed. Cops are better trained and better educated and better screened - no comparison. What did cameras add to police work on the guy shot in the back while he was running? It made great TV, but any comparatively good police force would have had to take that one to DA and guilty verdict handed down.
But, that is fine if it is OK for another group to not speak out about their family and require law enforcement to file a daily report about the mischief they see out of their brothers and sisters.
And that has absolutely nothing to do with what you posted above ... You're losing it
I dont think it is as easy as just wanting to do the right thing. I think when you can you turn aomeone in but that can backfire on you because someone may come after you and there is a fine line between doing good police work and crossing a line.
The other thought i had was it is hard to report a bad cop if it is going to lead to letting a criminal go free by hurting a case.
I don't know that I disagree with you because I don't know what the "it" is that I am losing. Was it something that I once had?