I like you too Droog and I don't hate America or Americans, but I do hate
your government. Although so do a lot of Americans at this point. It's

their blatant hypocrisy that sets me off, but you're right, it is another
topic not entirely related to what you were talking about, (although for me
part of it is in a way). I get that you're concerned about the law and it's
why you brought it to our attention, but you also seemed surprised by it all
as if you it was something new and my only contention was that it isn't new.

The violations as described in that article have been going on since
forever. You were the one who said black people now have to fear the
police, I'm saying that black people have *always* had to fear the police,
then and now, history just repeats itself. You have to admit you're a
pretty jaded, self-proclaimed cynic, and it struck me that if *you* could be
surprised by this, then how many others are surprised by it, which in my
mind, translates to people aren't paying attention. That frustrates me.
But it was me and not you and I'm sorry I went off on you like that. I hope
like hell they strike down the law in court, but it's disheartening that in
this day and age, in a country as developed as yours, a law like that should
even exist in the first place, never mind present an opportunity to strike
it down in court.

"Gayle" <gayleco@rcn.com> wrote in message
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Rhiannon wrote:

I am speaking of modern times

In 1989, Boston police conducted public strip searches of black men
walking in their neighborhood during one still well-remembered weekend of
racial hysteria:

http://dpsinfo.com/essays/charlie.html

Gayle

I remember that weekend. So tell me Droog is 1989 considered modern times?
Maybe 1981 the year Clarence Brandley was wrongfully accused of rape and
murder or 1990 the year he was released from death row. Or maybe 1991 the
year after that when James McCloskey (Brandley's lawyer) went on to
specialized in the wrongfully accused and had 19, yes NINETEEN, other
wrongfully accused black men on death row released. Or 1999 when Amadou
Bailo Diallo a 23 year old student was shot and killed by four police
officers in a case of mistaken identity (they all look alike don't you
know). The officers *thought* he had a weapon and fired 41 shots, hitting
Diallo 19 times, but there was no weapon on the body. The only thing in his
pocket was a wallet. Or 1997 the year Abner Louima, an innocent bystander
and witness to a scuffle between a group of men and women outside of a
nightclub, was unlawfully arrested, assaulted, tortured, and sodomized with
the handle of a toilet plunger by New York City Police officers. And of
course there is March 3 1991 the night Rodney King was beaten almost to
death by the Los Angeles police. King examined by doctors said they found
nine skull fractures, a shattered eye socket and cheekbone, a broken leg, a
concussion, injuries to both knees and nerve damage that left his face
partially paralyzed. He was in the hospital for two months following the
beating. So, yeah I can see how African Americans only had to fear the
police or the justice system in the old South or the civil rights violence
in the 60's.

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Rhi