tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34690855.post3558761434231889042..comments2024-03-24T10:57:10.838-04:00Comments on Get the Flick: It's Wrong. PeriodDon Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10219887691182501386noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34690855.post-15084450471305076372012-05-29T08:05:24.155-04:002012-05-29T08:05:24.155-04:00Thanks for the info, ih8tofly. Just because the N...Thanks for the info, ih8tofly. Just because the NYPD calls it "stop and frisk" doesn't mean it bears any resemblance to the Terry case. And then there's the 700,000 times thing. That's equal to half the population of Manhattan. <br /><br />It's nice to know the reason for the language/phrase. I appreciate it. Thanks for writing.<br /><br />Don BrownDon Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10219887691182501386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34690855.post-11878065214222627992012-05-28T23:18:02.766-04:002012-05-28T23:18:02.766-04:00Neither agreeing or disagreeing; just letting you ...Neither agreeing or disagreeing; just letting you know what the law is.<br /><br />The practice now known as "stop and frisk" was held to be constitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1963. Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote for the Court in an 8-1 decision in Terry v. Ohio.<br /><br />You can check-out the wiki page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_v._Ohioih8toflynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34690855.post-68657456190155112162012-05-26T18:02:39.171-04:002012-05-26T18:02:39.171-04:00Don, it's criminal.
It didn't work in th...Don, it's criminal. <br /><br />It didn't work in the 1600's through 1700's.<br /><br />It didn't work in Mussolini's Italy.<br /><br />My late father fought World War Two every night in his sleep from 1942 until his death (war related) in 1980.<br /><br />He gave "at the office".<br /><br />We have all these youngsters fighting for "freedom" that idiots want to strip us of.<br /><br />Like you, I am a proud American who understands that the current "hard Right" is wrong. I voted for President Obama and I'll do it again.<br /><br />Mitt Romney makes *clueless* look bright.<br /><br />However, this stuff going on in NYC is crap.<br /><br />Forget *Politically Correct* and slap some sense into them.<br /><br />The *middle* is where the majority of us as Americans live. You said it SO well. "We are a country built on compromise."<br /><br />We are.<br /><br />Intelligent people don't live their lives on *the fringe*.<br /><br />Limbaugh is a moron.<br /><br />Roger Ailes is a fool. <br /><br />I'd like to meet him and Rupert Murdoch for lunch one day.<br /><br />They would spend the next three months asking each other, "What in the f*ck just happened?"<br /><br />They, and their masters the Koch brothers, are bleeding this country dry to ensure they take a piece of any working man (or woman's) hide.<br /><br />I love your blog.<br /><br />You make sense.<br /><br />You have your facts in order.<br /><br />You know what its like to "work for a living".<br /><br />Sadly, Ailes, Murdoch, Limbaugh, and the Koch brothers apparently had it easy.<br /><br />Maybe we should give all four a headset and make them separate airplanes fill with their families.<br /><br />In turn, you and I can do broadcast news and a couple talk shows on radio and television.<br /><br />Let's see how cavalier those bastards are then.<br /><br />Great job, as always Don.<br /><br />ML, ret.Left blankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14013563298772282984noreply@blogger.com