Comments on: Tsar Michael Protests

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:11:03 +0000

I moved the article to a post Jams, along with that picture from Antarctica. Thanks.

They might re-think their strategy after what just happened to Tony Boloney, Badtux … or continue to mumble about terrorists and DFHs.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:43:19 +0000

Yay, Freedom(TM).

– Badtux the Snarky Penguin

By: jams o donnell

jams o donnell — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:53:34 +0000

You may find this account by Naomi Wolf and her arrest for legally walking down a street of interest Bryan

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/oct/19/naomi-wolf-arrest-occupy-wall-street

I daresay the consequences would have been far worse had she stepped on the cracks….

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:18:40 +0000

Badtux, under the Soviet system, and continued under the Russian system, the prosecution almost never holds a trial until the ‘guilty confess’. This is to ensure that ‘no innocent citizen’ is convicted of a crime they didn’t commit’. If you refuse to confess your crime, you are obviously mentally unbalanced and are sent to a psychiatric hospital to be cured. Tsar Michael can’t understand why the peasants are ‘forcing him’ to waste money on police over~~reaction~~time and courts, and haven’t confessed their crimes.

Jams, the NYPD is fracturing between the police officers and the ‘counter-terrorism cult’. If this keeps up you could have officers fighting in the streets.

Steve, any competent audio engineer can set up a white noise defense overnight with off-the-shelf equipment. You can get the most difficult bit from a good pair of noise canceling earphones. In any case, high-powered, high frequency sound is not something you use in glass and concrete ‘canyons’ unless you want to break windows at a minimum, and possibly damage structures. You would want engineering studies before trying it.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:07:20 +0000

I have minor hearing loss, partly genetic (my father was pretty deaf at the end) and partly from being in the middle of the ensemble all those years (many conductors of baroque orchestras seat the woodwinds right in front of the trumpets). With that perspective, I can't begin to tell you how reprehensible it is for anyone, for whatever reason, knowingly to inflict severe hearing loss on other people. I hope the perpetrators go to jail and are not placed in a padded cell!

By: jams o donnell

jams o donnell — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:33:09 +0000

Just seen a video of Chief Esposito showing a little common sense and preventing a possible disaster. Perhaps there is still some common sense in the NYPD

By: Badtux

Badtux — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:44:03 +0000

Since when did demanding a trial when accused of a crime become “contrary to everything America stands for”? Who does Bloomers think he is — Joseph Stalin, who bothered with trials only when he wanted to put on a show for the public?!

— Badtux the Baffled Penguin

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 04:29:26 +0000

In reply to Steve Bates.

Trying to use that kind of equipment in a concrete canyon like NYC will be a major disaster. They used it in Pittsburgh and are facing law suits from bystanders because it isn’t a narrow focus weapon.

Earbuds are as good as earplugs, but you can get the foam earplugs is the same area that has the other safety equipment. They are dirt cheap.

The beast is vehicle mounted and guaranteed to cause law suits. In addition, if they use it in the financial district the 1% will be distinctly unhappy as it can break windows.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 04:18:58 +0000

In reply to Steve Bates.

Words definitely become redefined over the years, and words dealing with politics more than most.

The biggest problem for the people who claim they are ‘conservative’ today is that they don’t know enough about US history to actually understand how radical they are.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 04:03:36 +0000

OT, Bryan, Fallenmonk points out that in NYC and Philly the police have deployed LRAD devices, the things that can create ear-damaging high-pitched sounds for 100 meters or more. Forgive my uncooperativeness, but I think that we'd better add ear stopples to your list of protective gear a protester needs to carry.