Re: bait server

From: DaveK (DaveK@SPAMBEGONEPetitMorte.net)
Date: 03/04/02

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    From: "DaveK" <DaveK@SPAMBEGONEPetitMorte.net>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 03:29:44 -0000

    "Bruce Barnett" <spamhater18@grymoire.com> wrote in message
    news:a5ti9u$p3m$2@208.20.133.66...
    > Me <no_address@x-ray.gs> writes:
    >
    > > Umm... I think he was being sarcastic. Oh, and *I* don't for a second
    > > believe that all police officers are corrupt or dishonest.
    >
    > But you also said earlier:
    >
    > >Of course! Do you think the police officers that wrote those tickets
    > >gave even the slightest bit of a flip about their *SAFTEY*? What a
    > >joke.
    >
    >
    > First you tell me that not *ONE* cop cares about people's safety, and
    > then you tell me you *don't* think all cops are dishonest?
    >
    > Part of honesty, IMHO, is basic motivation for being a cop.

      Funny, I always thought wanting to have a license to beat and bully people
    was one of the basic motivations. Since that's how they act most of the
    time.

    > *Some*
    > and perhaps *most* cops became cops to help people. But apparently you
    > don't believe that, and consider "a policeman caring about people" to
    > be a laughable concept.

      Power corrupts. It's well known that the idealistic ones are laughed at,
    ostracised (sp?), and generally have it all beaten out of them by their
    supposed friends and colleagues in the force. Cf. "Canteen culture".

          DaveK 

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