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michaeledward said:MARS!
for this president, anyway.
:rofl:
Ah well...at least you haven't lost you're sense of humor.
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michaeledward said:MARS!
for this president, anyway.
rmcrobertson said:Good to know that in arguments, the moral aspect of martial arts goes right out the window.
Hey, I know. Let's hear some arguments about how it's become OK for soldiers and cops to torture suspects, given the national emergency.
I realize this is a bit pompous, but I do not care for the spectacle of Americans arguing for squashing dissent and dragging old ladies away to the pokey for exercising their Consitutional rights. Silly me...must be that liberalism.
You're arguing an absolutely indefensible position, you know. Barrry Goldwater must be spinning like an isotope separator...
upnorthkyosa said:If this was a security procedure, everyone should be treated the same. Wake up. THIS IS NOT HAPPENING!
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loki09789 said:Again, a basic analogy is the admitted child hater near your child. Would you leave him/her within arms reach of your toddler or keep him farther/move away? And if another person was oowing and aahhing all over your child, you wouldn't just 'assume' that they were completely safe and leave your child free rolling with them, but you would be watchful as you let the distance control adjust to the percieved threat level....Doesn't sound that unreasonable.
upnorthkyosa said:It is unreasonable to have two standards of security for two types of people. Profiling someone based on their political beliefs is completely anti-american and the anti-thesis of free speech.
So, the rapists and murderers/serial killers should be in with the white collar criminals in minimum security prisons and such.... that would be equal security measures for everyone as well.
It is unreasonable to assess the threat or profile based on two types of standards. What tactical decisions and actions you make based on that threat assessment will change with the variables that you plug into that threat assessment.
You wouldn't treat a shop lifter who is basically being cooperative the same way that you would if he was threatening you with hate and discontent, and 'protesting' your actions. You would still be tactical and alert, but you wouldn't treat him the same way in both instances. You would use the same threat assessement but make different decisions based on observed data. It isn't the political beliefs that are being plugged into the assessment criteria, it is the potential for threat. It is a continuum, a checklist, a set of observable ques that are used to make tactical decisions. One of these could be the obvious 'anti-' whatever presentation. I notice no one wants to see how it works on our daily level of protection logic with our children and the two strangers.
As martial arts teachers, we deal with people and assess them as well. Hopefully, we are using one standard of assessment but are dealing with these students in individual ways. Whether you are manipulating/assessing people for education or security, you assess the situation come up with a plan based on the variables and execute that plan.
And no one is telling these demonstrators that they can not speak their minds, but - like the obvious child hater when I am protecting my child, it won't be close enough to pose a possible threat to my child, or my principle.
Obviously, with either political or protective motivations, it is creating a negative image that I would agree is leaving a bad taste in civil liberties minded folks. While I won't agree that it is intentional or primarily designed for the squashing of free speech, I would say that it demonstrates a poor 'finger on the pulse' of the citizenry from the Administration/Security/POTUS'. The cowboy way isn't making friends in lowly places
MisterMike said:This whole quarentining dissent term is really quite funny. Isn't what is actually going on is quarentining the President from the dissenters?
They can go anywhere they want, just not so close to him.
This President is fully aware of the protests and opposition at every turn he takes. Yet he does not read the papers, TV, internet news, etc. He has faith in what he is doing and will certainly own up to anything he has done come election time. And when that time comes, he has faith that the people of this country will vote him out if they like someone better or keep him in if they feel he made the right choices.