Thursday, November 02, 2006
- I went to do my early voting this afternoon since I had a half day at work. I think I may have inadvertently made a political statement in the process, and I never even thought about it. See, this area I live in has outlawed open carry and they are all very anti-gun around here. Yuppies, they love changing the south and trying to make it the north, and they're sadly doing a good job of it. But when I went to vote I'd just come from work. So in I walked in my gun store uniform with my holster still on, although I'd removed the gun and locked it in my glove box. Needless to say, I got watched very closely and stared at. I stuck my paperwork in the machine that oddly sounded like a shredder, and I turned to the room of people who were working the polls (imagine that, I was the only one voting at the time) and said, "Just so you know, and in case you didn't notice, I am a law abiding citizen and gun owner, and I left my guns in the car for this event, as the law states. I don't appreciate being watched like I'm a terrorist. I'm only a regular person who still believes in the Constitution, as rare as that may be these days."
- Obviously, since the big day is coming, the ads on TV for those running are becoming more and more. I'm sure you've noticed. What pisses me off is the stream of how much this person sucks, so vote for me. Why don't you tell us what you are all about? What are you for? What are you going to do? I don't care who is getting Stanley Cup game tickets. I don't care how insane you think someone is. And I surely don't give two shits about the fact that our current sheriff had an affair with a married woman two years ago. Big story on the news tonight! Apparently Donnie Harrison is getting some nookie, or at least he was two years ago. Had they told me he'd slept with a kid, yeah, now that is a serious problem. Had they told me he was caught on video rolling in the hay with a goat, I may have done a double take. And while I think it is just awful for someone to threaten a person's marriage, it does take two to tango. And either way, it doesn't make a god damn lick of difference about his politics. And I love how they kept saying, "The person who released this info says it isn't politically motivated." Yeah, I'm sure. During early voting and a week before the big voting day, I am sure this completely needed, two year old info about the sheriff's sex life wasn't politically motivated. And I'm sure the holier than thou won't be thinking about it when voting. Because you know, he's the only person in the world to ever have an affair with a married person. Uh huh. Heck, it would make me think he's not as grumpy since he's getting laid, right? Or maybe not, since they said the affair ended two years ago.
- Me watching the news is bad. Another story that got me bristled was a story about Halloween. On Halloween in NC, they have a huge party in Chapel Hill on Franklin St. Thousands of people and ass loads of cops attend this event every year. Well this year someone video taped the cops using "excessive force" on rowdy participants. With all the recent shootings at such events, as well as fights, etc., I am betting the cops were on edge. Now, I attended this boring party a few years ago. It was nothing. It is a massive crowd of people in dumb costumes (or no costumes, most aren't dressed up) that walks from one end of the street to the other and then goes home. Woo. But what I saw while I was there was this: cops lining the streets and the barricades closing the streets to cars. And people randomly walking up to them and assaulting them. I saw at least five cops have some random person walk up to them and belt them right in the face. Apparently this is a yearly event. Most were taken away calmly, no real cops showing "excessive force." And kudos to them. Because if I was on Halloween watch with a shit load of drunk college kids and some asshole walked up to me while I was talking to someone and belted me in the face, you can bet your ass it would be on right then and there. And what I saw in the videos they showed was kids fighting and the cops trying to break it up. One guy got real hostile towards the cop and the cop toppled backwards still holding onto the guy, then he rolled over on him and cuffed him. I didn't see any excessive force. I saw no guns, tasers, batons, nothing like that. It was all bare hands. And even then I didn't see any cops throwing punches or doing anything other than restraining people. The one cop they showed wasn't touching anyone, he was telling them to back off and move along. He wasn't even yelling, for God's sake! This is another one of these things where your only reply to the accusers is "shut the fuck up." I don't give a shit what color your skin is or what color the skin of the cop is. You aren't free to beat the shit out of random people on the road, nor are you free to belt cops for no apparent reason. If you do, be ready to get arrested and take it like a fucking man!
There you go. Goodnight.
Suck Lead did something BAAAAD at 11/02/2006 11:36:00 PM
