Hey Tim........ You know, I looked through Stampfer's book to see what he had to say about the WTO thing and he claimed that the SPD had to get tough because they had learned that the protesters had made their own chemical weapons! Don't you think that if this was true we would have heard about it from sources other than the Seattle Police? I am really surprised that you let this lying sack of s**t do a reading in your name. Not good.
Well, if you read the rest of his book, you'll see that he's pretty much to the left of every other cop in the country in what he thinks policing should be about. To dismiss him because you're still pissed off about WTO is a bit narrow, don't you think?
I understand your concern about my narrowness. But until I see him take responsibility for what he did as chief of the Seattle Police Department he will have no credibility with me. We can’t let these people get away with it over and over again. Whatever else he may be saying to give himself liberal veneer, he is projecting the blame for the brutalities of those days onto the victims themselves. “I had to shoot him, he had something in his hand” – then it turns out to be a remote control. That’s the oldest dodge in the book.
“Being is becoming,” and if we’re not “becoming,” we’re probably not doing much “being” either. This blog was started in a half-assed attempt at self-excavation. I have at least two unusual personality traits. The first is that I’m abnormally comfortable with ambiguity. I can happily muck about in the gray areas for years on end. This is probably why I love Seattle. The other is that I have a completely unrealistic belief in my own agency, which I tend to act upon. This blog has changed my life in more ways than I ever imagined. As my job as ED of a activist newspaper sold by homeless people, my vision for organizing, my thinking as a teacher, my history as a working-poor loser turned middle-class “advocate,” and my life as a parent swirled about me, this blog has been a path toward the center. We live in dangerous times, and the seductions to an easy, half-lived life of anesthetized materialism are all around. I have come to understand that my work is to be a revolutionary, both out in the world and within myself, turning over what is old, rotten, stale, and repressive, and building for a future where we can all find happiness and have the things we truly need.
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Hey Tim........ You know, I looked through Stampfer's book to see what he had to say about the WTO thing and he claimed that the SPD had to get tough because they had learned that the protesters had made their own chemical weapons! Don't you think that if this was true we would have heard about it from sources other than the Seattle Police? I am really surprised that you let this lying sack of s**t do a reading in your name. Not good.
Well, if you read the rest of his book, you'll see that he's pretty much to the left of every other cop in the country in what he thinks policing should be about. To dismiss him because you're still pissed off about WTO is a bit narrow, don't you think?
I understand your concern about my narrowness. But until I see him take responsibility for what he did as chief of the Seattle Police Department he will have no credibility with me. We can’t let these people get away with it over and over again. Whatever else he may be saying to give himself liberal veneer, he is projecting the blame for the brutalities of those days onto the victims themselves. “I had to shoot him, he had something in his hand” – then it turns out to be a remote control. That’s the oldest dodge in the book.
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