Rude Pundit: Another Stop In Gitmo America (warning: profane, rude, crude, talk)

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Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:06:22 +1000 (EST)

New Orleans -- Another Stop In Gitmo America::: too good

 

 

 

The Rude Pundit

 

New Orleans -- Another Stop In Gitmo America:

 

Ahh, it's good to know no matter what the disaster,

the New Orleans Police Department won't change. The

Rude Pundit has known a lot of great NOPD cops, who

are paid absolute shit wages, and he's been fucked

with by a few nutsucking sack of shit pigs, one of

whom threatened to " beat the living crap out of you if

you tell anyone a fuckin' thing " when the Rude Pundit

watched a couple of NOPD members shakedown an old

black street musician who had gotten a little too

toasted. And, yes, asshole cops have been putting the

beat down on poor blacks (and whites) before Katrina

and before the Bush administration. But we live in

Gitmo America now, and everything must be viewed

through the filter of state-sanctioned torture at

Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib and elsewhere.

 

The New Orleans cops who beat the living crap out of

Robert Davis, for, possibly and apparently, the crime

of asking an officer a question about the curfew, have

no doubt been under excruciating conditions since

Hurricane Katrina, especially since they were

abandoned by a couple hundred of pussy cops who just

stopped showing up for work. So surely Rush Limbaugh's

charming statement about the Abu Ghraib torturers

would go for the three officers who bloodied Davis:

" [Y]ou ever heard of emotional release? You ever heard

of need to blow some steam off? "

 

And what about the AP producer, who was confronted by

A.M. Smith, screaming about how he's been trying to

survive in New Orleans? Surely filming such abuse by

poor, overworked cops just aids the insurgents, all

those looting black New Orleanians (which included,

you know, some cops). Perhaps CNN's broadcast of the

tape means that Bill O'Reilly will say that cops will

be put in greater danger, as he says about the

pictures of Abu Ghraib abuse will do to soldiers in

Iraq. C'mon - the cop on the horse tried to block the

filming of the event. Ain't it clear that official

police business was being undertaken?

 

See, in Gitmo America, all bets are off when it comes

to the treatment of citizens by people in authority.

Davis's crime was to tell a police officer he was

being unprofessional when a second cop interrupted

Davis as the future victim of a head-bouncing was

talking to the first cop, who was on horseback. Davis

forgot that we live in a time when authority is

absolute, that to question power is to automatically

render you criminal, and that, indeed, we are mere

subjects to the powerful. If you forget that, then you

must be shown your place, on the ground, cuffed,

abused, bloodied.

 

To its credit, the NOPD has gotten the officers off

the street and decried the action. To his credit,

Davis, who says he hasn't had a drink in 25 years, has

not condemned the entire NOPD, which at one point in

its recent history was so rife with stinking

corruption that its cops felt free to rob and murder

people. Yes, the three beating cops are rotten apples,

but something made them feel free enough to beat a man

on an open street without fearing recriminations, just

like the torturers at Abu Ghraib.

 

 

// posted by Rude One @ 11:36 AM