Imagine it is the 1970's and you are in high school in Ballwin, Missouri. It is a Friday night and you meet your friends in the Central Hardware parking lot (they are closed) to talk and figure out what to do. You haven't decided yet and don't have any beer so you are really just hanging out, talking. The cops come by and tell you you cannot hang out there and have to move on.
You can't see why ...but you get in your car and start to leave. One of the cops is a jerk and pulls you over when you start to drive. He gives you a breath test and you pass and he is pissed. This guy is a jerk, and he breaks your headlight and writes you a ticket for a broken headlight and dares you to have an attitude so he can take you in. You know better and take it on the chin but you are angry.
When you get home your parents don't believe you and punish you for getting in trouble and ask you why they should believe you and not the cop.
If "we" are conservatives, and the police represent the administration, then understand that many of you are the parents who just don't think the cops can do any wrong.
You do not deserve to call yourselves liberals any more. That word does not describe your attitude or actions. Even with video of the cop breaking the headlight you just don't see how the cops could ever do any wrong.
I am an outraged teenager and I sleep well at night. My position has never changed.
You can't see why ...but you get in your car and start to leave. One of the cops is a jerk and pulls you over when you start to drive. He gives you a breath test and you pass and he is pissed. This guy is a jerk, and he breaks your headlight and writes you a ticket for a broken headlight and dares you to have an attitude so he can take you in. You know better and take it on the chin but you are angry.
When you get home your parents don't believe you and punish you for getting in trouble and ask you why they should believe you and not the cop.
If "we" are conservatives, and the police represent the administration, then understand that many of you are the parents who just don't think the cops can do any wrong.
You do not deserve to call yourselves liberals any more. That word does not describe your attitude or actions. Even with video of the cop breaking the headlight you just don't see how the cops could ever do any wrong.
I am an outraged teenager and I sleep well at night. My position has never changed.
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