Who Is IOZ?: Peasants

Friday, July 24, 2009

Peasants

I love newspaper comments sections. Where do these people come from? Remarkable.

Personally I was amazed by the number of people who claimed in those comments that they were "always taught" to genuflect before cops. Me, I was always taught that cops were servants, below my station in life, like the guys who mowed our lawn or fetched our golf carts. I have since revised my opinion of landscapers and become a supporter of La Reconquista, and I was once in love with a caddy.

24 comments:

nony said...: These people are Americans.; 1:31 PM
NutellaonToast said...: I was always taught that cops had Irish accents and twirled their baton as they smiled/whistled.; 1:57 PM
paul from the clue-by-four said...: "We all increase our chances of surviving a police encounter using 'sir'."

O homines ad servitutem paratos!; 2:39 PM
Dennis Perrin said...: I remember when police stopped traffic to allow ducklings to cross the road. Sure, they'd beat them into feathered paste afterward, but the initial gesture meant something.

A more innocent time.; 2:51 PM
skip gates will tell it to yo mama said...: "Remember, Gates fit the description of the man that Gate's neighbor reported braking into the house and the police was responding."

Folks, never brake into a house. Just speed right through the fucker, or the police was have to respond.

Logic, motherfuckers.; 3:18 PM
drip said...: Italics from the NYT story: Mr. Obama did not use the word “apology,” but aides said that was the sentiment conveyed during his phone call with Sergeant Crowley. I'm sorry that 75% of America thinks it's OK to to ask a citizen to leave his house and then arrest him for complaining about the treatment. But I'm not going to apologize for the asswipes.

Mr. Obama said, there was a discussion about the police sergeant, Professor Gates and him having a beer at the White House Ah! Invite Hillary, and Skip and Sergeant for a shot and a beer, shoot the shit a little, we're all friends, here. Pissah! See, next time some arrogant police officer oversteps his bounds and illegally arrests you, just take him to the White House and have a beer with him. Problem solved America!; 3:29 PM
hiltfredus said...: It's funny, though. Our media informers love the obfuscating race angle; all the coverage is profiling blah blah blah discrimination blah blah minority progress blah, but a good chunk of the comments, stupid as they are, at least grasp that the real, underlying issue is authority.

Which makes it that much more depressing that all these people have such a hard-on for the police state.; 3:39 PM
Slaney Black said...: I was always taught that cops were shifty-eyed sadists. Only useful thing my dad ever taught me.; 3:43 PM
Anonymous said...: You get people one on one and they'll admit they think police a generally stupid bullies from high school. You get people in a group or in a comments section of a blog or something (this place excepted) and they'll say cops deserve our respect.; 4:03 PM
práxedis magón said...: see, i was always taught that, as long as long as you have enough money for the bribe, cops are mostly a nuisance. i'm surprised there aren't moar advocates for reconquista like meester ioz; 4:50 PM
Alaya said...: what's funny is that hiltfredus seems to think that authority and race haven't been fucking each other silly for the last five centuries.; 5:18 PM
Anonymous said...: Obviously you're not a golfer.; 6:16 PM
David Chappell said...: On the principle of "set a thief to catch a thief" I always understood that police were simply criminals in uniform.; 6:20 PM
Enron said...: All power to the leafblowers.; 7:22 PM
Agi said...: "I wonder what it feels like to work in a real police department" - McNulty; 8:29 PM
Coldtype said...: "I was always taught that cops were shifty-eyed sadists"
-Slaney Black

Not all of us dudes and dudettes, not all.

"see, i was always taught that, as long as long as you have enough money for the bribe, cops are mostly a nuisance"
-práxedis magón

That's so 1979. In fact, during the entire span of my career (19 years and counting) I haven't once felt the need to remind, say, a traffic violator that they were traveling "20 dollars over the speed limit". Our pay now days is sufficient to render such income supplementation completely unnecessary.; 9:14 AM
drip said...: Sure Coldtype, now ya'll come pre-bribed. It's a beautiful system to watch.; 10:29 AM
Cüneyt said...: See, I'm glad that we have police officers, and I'm glad that they're well-paid, when they are. But then, I'm pretty far left. Unfortunately, the anarchist side gets troubled by the drug war welfare and the militarization of law enforcement, the no-knock raids, and yes, the good old boy networks and the corruption.

It's not a cop problem. It's a people problem that affects police forces like it affects every other powerful institution. In any case, I want to say that we shouldn't generalize, when there are a lot of good cops out there.

Of course, when they circle the wagons around the most insipid bastards on the force, at least 'round here, it's hard to remember that those good ones exist.; 11:16 AM
SteveB said...: Whether the issue is creeping authoritarianism or climate change, there are a lot of folks out there who simply can't think at any level above the individual. The only question they're interested in is "What should I do?" Or, in this case, "What would I have done, if I had been in Gates' situation?"

So buy a hybrid car and remind yourself to say "sir" to the police. Problem(s) solved!

It's not like there's anything wrong with individualistic responses to big social problems - "Don't mouth off to the cops" is good advice, and I imagine it's the advice that every African-American parent gives their kids when they send them off to school, if they want to see their kids return in one piece at the end of the day.

But if we really can't think in any other terms - because, I suspect, we've been trained not to think in any other terms - well, that's a problem, is all I'm sayin'.; 2:12 PM
Anonymous said...: I was always taught cops were pigs. Really? I'm the only one?; 4:57 AM
Anonymous said...: Msr.,
Tell me you didn't read all 350 comments!
If so, how long did it take?
p.s. Always nice to see Dennis the P. drop in on the comments section.
Can't wait for his treatment/script/pilot.
Prof. Obvious; 12:06 PM
cemmcs said...: IOZ

You are on fire! This one and the "Go Pro" post are very funny.

Thanks. I needed the laugh.; 7:40 PM
ts said...: I was taught that if you ever interacted with a cop, you really fucked up and deserved what you got. Then again, I'm rich and white.; 1:25 AM
cemmcs said...: I was taught that if you ever interacted with a cop, you really fucked up and deserved what you got. Then again, I'm rich and white.

...and I really didn't mind giving the guy a c-note. Hey, that's what I tip a bellhop.; 7:20 PM

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