Very unsettling.Great comment VikingsGuy.
I wish your last paragraph were enough, but as a country we are now so apoplectic everywhere, and leaderless, that I fear poor decisions, from anywhere.
It's unsettling times.
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Very unsettling.Great comment VikingsGuy.
I wish your last paragraph were enough, but as a country we are now so apoplectic everywhere, and leaderless, that I fear poor decisions, from anywhere.
It's unsettling times.
leaderless
The reason I ask is that the cervical spine can be very delicate especially as we age. The cervical vertebra from the C-3 level or higher can affect primary neurologic life function. Fracture, displacement, or hemorrhage, caused by this "police subdual move" can cause the cardiopulmonary arrest. It does not matter what color, race, or sex, that you are. This Neck Subdual Move should be illegal to use by anybody unless murder is the intent. This move should be banned for use of police world wide. It is not a responsible or reasonable form of restraint. Perhaps a US wide training session eliminating this would save lives and riots as a result.The formal phrase was, “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression.” Meaning the cop’s knee on his neck ultimately caused his heart to stop due to lack of oxygen.
A big eye opener for me was a number of years ago when in the same week two events occurred in the same general neighborhood (a largely white suburb). Me, a middle aged white guy, does a “slow and go” right hand turn through a stop sign. A cop was right there and flipped his lights. When he asks for license and insurance I realized I had forgotten to print my latest version out. After running my license the cop gives me a friendly verbal warning. No ticket for the moving violation or the lack of evidence of insurance. A couple of days later a black friend (who was a cop in another local community) gets pulled over for no declared reason. The officer does not tell him why he was pulled over and does not seem to care that he his a fellow cop. He makes my friend get out of his car and lay on the ground. He calls in two other cars for backup and makes my friend lay there at gun point until they arrive. After the now 5 cops run his license and decide he has violated no laws they let him go without even an apology. So much for Minnesota nice.That article is really an eye opener for me because I’ve never experienced that in any way shape or form. Blows my mind that stuff still happens this day in age.
This concerns me on many issues. There is no FDR, Reagan, JFK, Billy Grahm, MLK, Churchill, Gandhi, etc. I fear that our toxic news cycle culture has left us without credible and unifying leaders. Many good people choose to avoid public service all together because of the mess, and those that try are just punching bags for the daily sh*t storm. Will we ever allow a leader to emerge or will we just tear them all down?
No person is fault-free. Great leaders of the past all had shortcomings, but lived in a time where not every element of a person was laid bare to daily scrutiny. We allowed ourselves to respect them for their strengths while allowing for (or being ignorant of) their weakness. There are dangers in idolizing the flawed, but there is also danger in being so critical and cynical that we respect no one. Frankly the pendulum has swung too far in my opinion. We need to embrace leaders with character, empathy and a positive vision for all not just their core base, and then we need to give them some grace on the normal foibles of being human. To do otherwise is to become rudderless.
You have stated it very well. The press and too many forms of media are acting like a pendulum that is swinging way to far in both directions to create drama. I guess they figured out that this drama is what gets attention from viewers. I am about done watching the news at the national level because of the built in bias that the reporters generate.This concerns me on many issues. There is no FDR, Reagan, JFK, Billy Grahm, MLK, Churchill, Gandhi, etc. I fear that our toxic news cycle culture has left us without credible and unifying leaders. Many good people choose to avoid public service all together because of the mess, and those that try are just punching bags for the daily sh*t storm. Will we ever allow a leader to emerge or will we just tear them all down?
No person is fault-free. Great leaders of the past all had shortcomings, but lived in a time where not every element of a person was laid bare to daily scrutiny. We allowed ourselves to respect them for their strengths while allowing for (or being ignorant of) their weakness. There are dangers in idolizing the flawed, but there is also danger in being so critical and cynical that we respect no one. Frankly the pendulum has swung too far in my opinion. We need to embrace leaders with character, empathy and a positive vision for all not just their core base, and then we need to give them some grace on the normal foibles of being human. To do otherwise is to become rudderless.
To the OP, it's so eye opening. I have gone on work trips in Montana with a colleague who is a person of color. That individual wouldn't go out to eat in certain small town establishments because of numerous instances they had encountered over the last decade. I remember talking to them about these instances, and thinking to myself how this person has no place that feels like home in the way that I do. It's not a stretch to me that so many feel like a "man without a country", and where that feeling may lead once desperate enough.
Two techniques while moving through a crowd. One way is to push your way through, scowling, and intimidating. Another is like a Scatback or a Soccer player, try to get through with as little contact as possible. Or like my son says courtesy doesn't cost anything.So in other words, it’s okay to be different, just don’t offend me in doing so? Thats certainly not the pinnacle of tolerance.
Nameless Range and JLS
Something else that is unsettling to me is that everything I am reading today on this forum and the news outlets are somewhat the same comments that were stated in 1992 during and after the Rodney King Riots.
Bigjay73 also makes a good point. Some do try however. There are some men on this forum who reach out to--veterans , abused and abandoned children, others----- but sometimes it is hard just to care for ourselves and our families.
I certainly do not have the answer or a magic wand, but wish I did.
But I will say something that will likely get me banned, like the old saying; I have no problem with a person being gay, I just wish they wouldn't be a faggot about it. The same goes with Blacks, I have no issue with blacks, I just wish they wouldn't be niggers about it.
Prior to getting 86’d, Mudder did a wonderful job of displaying the attitude of, “its okay to be different, just don’t do it in a way that makes me uncomfortable “. He then doubled down and made the analogy of slipping through a crowd unseen.I do have an issues with ignorant people proving such ignorance on my platforms. Remember the old Toyota commercial, "You asked for it, you got it....."
Bye!