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Marchers Protesting Elimination of Police Overtime Pay Brutalized by Police

by Krivitsky Friday, Mar. 19, 2004 at 6:47 PM

(satire)

A generally peaceful demonstration against recently proposed revisions of federal regulation by the Department of Labor that would revoke the overtime pay of millions of American workers, including that of many police officers, turned violent when members of the LAPD fired tear gas into the crowd and began clubbing people.

The crowd of protestors, estimated to be 10,000 in number by organizers and 500 by police, began yesterday morning to march north on Westwood Boulevard towards the Federal Building in Westwood, chanting such phrases as "Fair pay for fair work" and waving signs promoting support for various labor organizations, including those of police advocacy groups. Shortly into the march, however, participants were diverted away from their planned route west onto Mississippi Avenue, a street truncated by road construction, by police officers in full riot gear. Once penned in, the police, under the pretense that members of the mob were demonstrating a threat to private property, gassed them and began to beat them savagely and without discrimination with their batons and the protestors own signs.

Sergeant Rudolph Schmidt commented officially on the turmoil, "The protestors were clearly in the wrong here. They started it. I’m not saying our boys are perfect or anything, but the protestors always start it."

When asked to explain why the police would be so quick to resort to violent means of contending with a crowd whose aim is to protect the overtime pay of, amongst others, the police themselves, Officer Michael Mooney commented, "Our job is to uphold the law, whatever that law is. Personal opinions or individual thought have no place in law enforcement. Besides, I don’t care. I’d crack skulls and stomp ass for free."

Another rather large officer whose name tag was conspicuously absent responded to the same question by squeezing his club and growling, "MEAAAT!"

In the aftermath of the riot, 37 protestors have been hospitalized and 3 remain in critical condition, two with fractured skulls and one with a "Back the Badge" sign lodged in his rectum.

fresca

by mmm hmm Friday, Mar. 19, 2004 at 7:00 PM

"Officer Michael Mooney commented, "Our job is to uphold the law, whatever that law is. Personal opinions or individual thought have no place in law enforcement. Besides, I don’t care. I’d crack skulls and stomp ass for free." "

Right. Sure.

Sorta sends the whole inane post down the drain of utterly discredible, don't you think?

what a waste of time

by john Saturday, Mar. 20, 2004 at 5:39 AM

do you have nothing else to do but to sit down and waste time writing crap like this hoping that someone will believe it really happened. This serves only to inflame tension. you are an instigator and a person with no morals. you do a disservice to those who wish to effect change in wrongs in our society by fabricating such lies.

satire

by more rational Saturday, Mar. 20, 2004 at 9:54 AM

Satire is lost on 90% of the population... even if you put the word "satire" a the top of the article.

hello?!

by midge Saturday, Mar. 20, 2004 at 3:26 PM

the article is obviously tongue-in-cheek.

idiots.

fresca

by so what? Saturday, Mar. 20, 2004 at 4:38 PM

"the article is obviously tongue-in-cheek.

idiots."

Admittedly, I didn't even see the word satire. That's me just being an impatient "fucking idiot".

But reading an article like that around here is hardly cause for suspicion. Bear in mind, this is a site that routinely has articles explaining how the WTC were brought down by remote controlled aircraft. How contrails from jets are really deadly "chemtrails" designed by the WTO to enslave and kill us all. Articles STILL claiming that all the Jews were told not to show up at work at the WTC on 9-11 by the Mossad. Completely NON tongue in cheek articles touting the superiorty and fantasizing about the successes of Communism.

This site is rife with the most inane conspiracy theory tripe you'll ever read. Why would this article be any different.

The real question is what's the point? As far as satire goes it hardly even qualifies. This is simply some non-sequitor attempt at cop bashing. Appropos of nothing.

I suppose that's why it actually had to be labled as satire in the first place, since the actual writing really had none to speak of.

But, again, I'm an idiot for not seeing the label.

no satire to speak of?

by Merrick Saturday, Mar. 20, 2004 at 5:16 PM
merrickgreg@hotmail.com

Cops beating protestors who are trying to stick up for cops? seems pretty satirical to me...

fresca

by well Saturday, Mar. 20, 2004 at 7:27 PM

In as much as this fictional march was in support of American "workers" which in it's all inclusive nature includes police officers amonst every other possible vocation, I suppose you could try and make the case that the march was in support of cops.

However that's quite a stretch.

Beyond that, it's still a complete non-sequitor.

It's no more relevant or resembling an actual situation than if the march was in support of Martians and then the protesters were attcked by Martians.

It's simply absurd.

OneEyedMan

by KPC Saturday, Mar. 20, 2004 at 7:30 PM

shitpile, do us all a favor and educate yourself before adding to your pile, willya?

Just 'cause your too fuckin' thick to get it doen't mean it isn't satire....



....moron....

fresca

by c'mon dummy Saturday, Mar. 20, 2004 at 7:41 PM

Even you can do better than that. That you're a fool is a given but the previous posts outlined quite clearly the concepts which should have kept your ignorance unexposed. But, alas, you choose to wear it on your sleeve.

You wouldn't even be reading this thread except for the fact that I commented and you follow me around like a lapdog.

That you even can follow the thread is doubtful.

Face it, staire can not exist when the subject statirized does not exist. And as much as the losers around here would love it to be true, we are not and never have been under the threat of bloodthirsty legions of "ass stomping" cops. Therefore, the "author" might as well "satirize" the issue of alien attck or chemtrail coverups. Two other inane and nonexistent issues.

OneEyedMan

by KPC Saturday, Mar. 20, 2004 at 7:59 PM

shitpile: "You wouldn't even be reading this thread except for the fact that I commented and you follow me around like a lapdog."

Of course I do, or else I might miss another one of your laughable fecal pinchings, such as;

"That you're a fool is a given but the previous posts outlined quite clearly the concepts which should have kept your ignorance unexposed. But, alas, you choose to wear it on your sleeve. "

Oooh, I am sooooo DEVASTATED!

or this....

"...staire can not exist when the subject statirized does not exist. "

What...cops don't exist?

...or...

"we are not and never have been under the threat of bloodthirsty legions of "ass stomping" cops. "

Hmmm...nothing in the piece that says that...only YOU say it, then claim it is not true....whaddaya call that...."hayman"...something like that....

...anyway nothing noted in the behavior of police that has not been exhibited recently IN FACT. So your point is...

....pointless...but they alway are, aren't they?

...whadda fuckin' fetid shitpile you are....

fresca..

by midge Sunday, Mar. 21, 2004 at 12:19 AM

..so....your main problem is that there are a lot of articles here that sound suspect to you? then are you taking it upon yourself to patrol the site and point out inaccuracies? distortions? conspiracy theories?!

or just attack the things that piss you off?

thanks for taking it upon yourself for taking up this monumental task, but we're not all like you. i know you like to blindly believe everything that comes out of bush's mouth, and i can see how such a person would worry about people believing in chemtrails and jewish conspiracies and other such nonsense....

but i assure you, there are many people here who read the articles objectively and come to their own conclusions...

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