From New York Daily News:
There are some parts of Zuccotti Park that even the protesters won’t go at night.
Police sources said Thursday that several fights have been reported in the park and officers have been warned of “dangerous instruments being concealed within cardboard tubing” when approaching the demonstrators.
“There is a lot of infighting in the park,” a police source said. “There is one part of the park where even they don’t go at night. They call it The Ghetto.”
The revelation came after the president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association warned demonstrators that he will pursue civil suits against anyone who assaults any union member.
“New York‘s police officers are working around the clock as the already overburdened economy in New York is being drained by ‘occupiers’ who intentionally and maliciously instigate needless and violent confrontations with the police,” SBA President Ed Mullins said in a statement.
Mullins said about 20 NYPD cops have been injured in clashes with protesters. He said he will also push for prosecutors to bring felony assault raps against anyone who gets physical with an NYPD sergeant.
Mullins’ threat follows a spate of violent incidents between cops and demonstrators at Occupy movements across the country.
Seventeen demonstrators were arrested and six officers were assaulted during a chaotic march to Union Square on Wednesday night, police said.
These are the same cops whose department is being rocked by several scandals right now, as I recall. Ticket-fixing, gun smuggling, etc. Maybe we shouldn’t just assume they’re telling the truth, if you know what I mean.
Correct. We should not assume they are actually telling the truth. Or that the videos are actually showing what happened. Or that playing back the recordings actually lets us hear the words. Or that we actually exist. Especially we should not assume that their is actually a real world outside our own head and fantasies, and it might actually disagree with us and be right.
The technique used by “soopercali” is known as an “ad hominem attack” — meaning “attack to the person” who opposes you, as compared to attacking the argument that person presents. Every child learns this, and if they have not then they learn it in Logic-101, or in their first semester of law school, or in a high school ‘Critical Thinking’ class, or the first time their girl/boy friend catches them in a lie — it means> If you have the facts and the issues on your side, then argue the facts and the issues, but when the facts and the issues are against you, then you should argue the unworthiness of the other guy: Talk about his faults and failing, expand them, and be horrified at them, whether or not they are involved, so as to remove attention and reasoned thought from consideration of the case in hand.
So,
Ever consider a position as obamas speech writer? With that too long an explaination to what should have been rather simple observation, you most likely have caused many to skip past a long and obtuse post for an easy to digest one. In my very humble opinion
Dude, if two paragraphs are too long to keep your attention you have serious issues regarding your attention span. ADHD?