Originally Posted by Richard Davis
"You have completely skipped over the complexity of the situation"
I've skipped over nothing, since I pointed out the video and explained what was going on there, which is that the police are apparently now placing their priority on, which is making sure that citizens of Australia are masked when outdoors, which is absurd since the risk of transmission of the virus is essentially non-existent, in the 0.0000000001 percent range as far as I know.
Further, I don't see anything complex about it whatsoever. What I see is a power play by authoritarians. You might disagree on that, which is your prerogative, however that is how I view it, a country completely out of hand with hysterical loons running the show.
I know that in one part of the nation within the last several months, when there was 1 single death, the authorities locked down the city of 900,000 and issued curfews, and told the citizens that they could not leave their homes.
Certainly it is their nation and they can do whatever they feel like doing . In the same realm I'm free to comment upon it, recognize their hysterics, and provide my opinion about the situation.
If you believe that is a reasonable response (complete lockdowns over 1 single death) then I'd say you might just be as hysterical as they are.
If you believe that it is reasonable to throw people to the ground outside after grabbing the person by the throat and putting handcuffs on them, because they are not wearing a mask that speaks volumes.
So let me say again that I explained why I think that is a police state tactic, so I'll ask again, what did I skip over? Answer: nothing, I simply posted the video and commented upon it.
As for your litany of remarks you placed in outline form above, I'll address them 1 by 1.
1. With respect to the bold, if you are implying that I'm telling them how to run their nation, you would be totally confused. I certainly am not telling them anything. I've never implied anything remotely like that, just commenting on a nation that I believe has lost its mind, as well as its freedoms. I will never look at Australia in the same light that I looked at them before. I would never visit that police state, even if I won a trip there.
2. What "violent" resistance is that? Where do you see "violent" resistance? Maybe you and I are looking at different videos. Each of the videos I've seen, involve a policeman grabbing a suspect by the throat, then throwing the suspect to the ground. Did you see that? Do you condone that?
Why is it that I have a feeling that had I posted a video of any cop in the US who grabbed a suspect and choked them, and then threw MMA style KNEE kicks into their groins, you and EVERY Other LEFTIST Here would be screaming from the mountaintops about Police brutality?
Recently a woman in Colorado was on film in some town in Northern Colorado, may have been Greeley. She had been shoplifting at Wal-Mart, and when approached by Police, resisted arrest, tried to punch them, and was wrestled to the ground. She was frail and got either a broken arm, dislocated shoulder, or both, and the police officers were relieved of duty. Did you see that? Did you comment on that at the time, either here or among friends, or your family?
If you did, what was your response to them? Did you tell your wife, that's outrageous, and those cops deserved to be fired?
3. Okay, you would convict these "people" of resisting arrest, which implies to me that you've watched more than one of the videos I posted. So then, the guy that was smoking a cigarette outdoors and was choked by the officer while he threw him to the ground and the others jumped on top? IYO then, he was resisting arrest? Is that what you are saying? I'm just asking the question. I have no idea what he did before the cop started choking him. I did not see Him resisting arrest in that video. He was trying to talk as they were pushing him back and then they handcuffed. I did not see him resist after they threw him to the ground.
4. I don't have any sympathy for those who resist arrest however I didn't witness that in at least one of the videos.
Now lastly, I will comment on the Marxist Democrat's statement that he wishes that those tactics would come here. I know he doesn't want those tactics to come here, if they are used on Violent Democrats because he defended all the violence committed by his side of the aisle in big cities throughout 2020, when Democrats looted, burned down buildings, and attacked cops and Federal agents with Molotov cocktails, fireworks, bricks, bats, 2x4s, and even firearms. He didn't and still does not care about all the violence committed by his side of the aisle then.
In fact one Leftist Democrat poster here, called the Federal Agents in Portland Storm Troopers and compared them to Nazis. This is what your leftist pals here think of the cops and, this is what your leftist buddies defended throughout the summer of 2020 in the US.
"Now lastly, I will comment on the Marxist Democrat's statement that he wishes that those tactics would come here. I know he doesn't want those tactics to come here, if they are used on Violent Democrats because he defended all the violence committed by his side of the aisle in big cities throughout 2020, when Democrats looted, burned down buildings, and attacked cops and Federal agents with Molotov cocktails, fireworks, bricks, bats, 2x4s, and even firearms. He didn't and still does not care about all the violence committed by his side of the aisle then."
BS! Stop making crap up!...
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