Nov 02 2010
Teaching Tolerance
copyright © 2010 Betsy L. Angert. BeThink.org
Since I was a child he hounded me. She stalked me. I was bullied, intimidated, tormented not by a single person, but by a throng of thoughts. Why did another child, adolescent, nay adult ever bully me. What was it about me that kept me safe from harm or a persecutor’s pointed proclamations?
Sep 24 2010
GOP’s ‘Pledge To America’ Replaces Affordable Care Act With Provisions From Affordable Care Act
By Igor Volsky, ThinkProgress.org — Sept 22, 2010
Ironically, today Republicans are also unveiling a new “Pledge To America,” an agenda that promises to “repeal” all of these benefits — as well as the entire health care law — and replace it with “reforms that lower costs for families and small businesses, increase access to affordable, high-quality care and strengthen the doctor-patient relationship.”
The document provides almost no specifics about what the [GOP] party would do to control health care spending, improve quality, or pay for its reforms.
And at least 7 of the GOP’s ideas on health care are already included in the health care law:
Insurance Across State Lines
High-Risk Insurance Pools
Pre-Existing Conditions
Lifetime and Annual Caps
Recissions
State Innovation
Conscience Protections
WTF! What Kind of Pledge is that?
Sep 22 2009
I am not making this up.
A pair of cops tasered a legless black man.
They tried to pull his two-year-old daughter out of his lap, he resisted (who WOULDN’T??) and they got nasty on him and fucking tasered him, leaving lying on his side, NAKED FROM THE WAIST DOWN, outside of his apartment for all to see.
I wish I was making this up. Because it’s just godawful.
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/…
The incident began when police responded to a call claiming an argument had broken out at Williams’ home. One of the officers involved, John Pinnegar, claims Williams’ wife said Williams had hit her, a charge Williams denies. Police say when they tried to take his two-year-old daughter from his lap to hand her over to Child Protective Services, Williams resisted. That’s when the violence allegedly began.In an emotional video interview, Williams said: “I’m not a violent person, I do not have a criminal background.”
Added Williams: “How much resisting am I going to do with no legs, no feet? How much resisting am I going to do?”
“Williams said Pinnegar unholstered his Taser, jammed it into his rib cage and shocked him twice. Williams said he fell from his chair onto his stomach on the ground outside his doorway,” the Sun-Star reports.
Williams also says an officer put his knee on Williams’ neck after he was already on the ground, even though “I can’t get up now — I don’t have any feet to get up with,” Williams said.
He added: “And they tell me that I’m doing stupid stuff in front of my kids? These are cops and they come in my house — what if they had accidentally tased my kid because of their [stupidity]?”
The Sun-Star reports that a “hostile” crowd gathered around the apartment building during the incident. The “apartment complex came to a roar because they were tasing a guy in a wheelchair and it was for no reason,” said one witness interviewed on video.
Williams was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence and resisting arrest. He spent six days in lock-up before he was released, and the county prosecutor has laid no charges.
A legless black guy, tasered, humiliated by police, locked in jail for six days.
No charges filed.
Cops are just way out of control with these tasers. Tasers can kill you. That kind of electric shock is downright dangerous, anyone who has to do any kind of professional safety training regarding electricity KNOWS that. They can kill you. But cops are tasering people just for the sheer rollicking hell of it, constantly, tasering old women, legless men, pretty much everybody who is already helpless against them.
This is disgusting.
I’m way too tired to really develop this any more, just wanted everyone to know about it. Pass it along. I won’t post it anywhere else.
Aug 08 2009
Bullying is the act of intentionally causing harm to others, through verbal harassment, physical assault, or other more subtle methods of coercion such as manipulation.
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In colloquial speech, bullying often describes a form of harassment perpetrated by an abuser who possesses more physical and/or social power and dominance than the victim.
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The harassment can be verbal, physical and/or emotional.
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Bullies hurt people verbally and physically.
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There are many reasons for that. One of them is because the bullies themselves are or have been the victim of bullying.
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Bullying can occur in any setting where human beings interact with each other.
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Bullying can exist between social groups, social classes and even between countries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B…
