Forever the difference...
"What an absurd question, I'm saddened and angered every day when I read how many innocent lives are being lost in order to protect Americans."
WOW, so you've got respect for police protecting us but since you've got all of us as unworthy bastards, they're wasting their time and lives protecting us...that may be one of the most pathetic statements I've ever heard,
congrats!
Where did I raise any flags for the US being the all incompassing bastion of freedom and equality? Seriously, have you ever been here? There's the glass half full and half empty people but you sound like the glass is broke and shards are flying at your eye person...again, dark thinking for someone obviously quite bright...right?
So in our land of freedom, because of the drastic attitudes and denials he faced over and over, you'd even have the world's best martial artist quit before any of his dreams are attempted or realized simply because obstacles he faced were harsh and unfair...The ***** town that is Hollywood, CA, especially in the early 60's, were to blame for their lack of vision and blatant racism against Chinese people, that's why he wasn't cast. Thank God Bruce shared none of your excuses or pity for himself or people when he continued to prove his passion and life's work for us all by helping to showcase the Chinese culture and power of his art. He was smart by simply going back to Hong Kong, meeting back up with his best students and friends, and Raymond Chow to make his blockbusters! By the sound of it, you've got him living today, having done nothing with his life because taking chances would be too risky, broke, bald, weighing about 365 pounds, eating a box of chocolate covered cheesecake Crispy Cremes and not being able to even pee straight much less break a board in half with one finger!?#?$!
Capital punishment...you bet, because what ALWAYS gets lost in the acts that created the need for it in the first place, are the acts themselves and the terrible retelling of it all in court right in front of family, friends, and kids. Of course the individual in retrospect will almost always feel sorrow, especially when facing capital punishment but again, what is lost are the losses themselves and having people here, anywhere that commit such crimes against people simply don't deserve to be around. Everyone wants to feel better as soon as they can so why remember what happened because that's sad...what crap!
Sure, I would prefer an "ABSALOM"; some island or planet where these people would all be exiled to forever and alone to do whatever the hell they wanted to each other because capital punishment, if though in single context, IS terrible but why do so many people forget that if people didn't do the horrific things that they did, there would be no need for such a decision.
Sure, that scrap of 230 year old paper isn't perfect but you forget, it wasn't written by "Americans", as you'd accuse us of...point the finger in the other direction...It isn't the cure all or cause of problems here just like your leaders fool you into thinking everything is so safe, apparently there and not here because we kill our cops or something and aren't suppose to ask questions about how we want to live...
I sincerely hope the strides you feel Europe has made over the past 200 odd years have been significant but certainly no greater than the collective masses that have all come HERE to help us move farther...Like it or not, we are YOU so don't hate and bash because it's a mirror...
Brianwarnock: Woman dragged to her death in Douglas County: "Douglas County investigators found her body Monday. According to the sheriff's department, Luz Maria Franco-Fierros was dragged behind a vehicle for more than a mile through the Surrey Ridge neighborhood.
Her boyfriend, 36-year old Jose Luis Rubi-Nava, is accused of first degree murder. Investigators say Rubi-Nava tied a rope around the woman's neck and then dragged her behind the vehicle. It took more than three days for investigators to identify the body. Fingerprints matching voting records eventually helped to determine the body was in fact Franco-Fierros."
Now, he'll make his way through our tedious system for ten years plus but in that time, I'm sure he will at some point make calls to his ex-girlfriends family and his kids saying, "Hey guys. How have you all been? Doing good in school I hope. Keep those grades up and have fun at the prom next week. How about that CSI show huh mom? Still cooking that potroast we all love? Dad, how about those Bears huh. Boy, that quarterback sure has an arm!"
It should be legal for them to execute him themselves for taking their mother from them but since everyone wants to forget what happened and show mercy to someone, it may as well be him...because after 8 odd years down the road, he's "changed", sorry, and regrets his actions...maybe leaving her last month and moving to Seattle for the cool damp air would have been a better decision?
Guns...here we go...yes, there is the population that hug these like nothing else and there is the population that avoids them like a plague...I'm curious; East of Eden is your basement room or something you think actually exists?
Come on, crime, violence, etc. has no rules, no boundaries, and no laws so we have to put into place, whatever mechanisms we can to deter these activities, especially as they escalate and if that means capital punishment, sure, until Absalom is found and used instead!
Alright guys, I'll admit first that I get riled up about these kind of things and am frustrated because I'm fortunate not to have these direct issues facing me or loved ones but certainly feel for those who do and try to always help in any way we can but you'd have to admit that certainly some of your comments truly only would offend the moral majority over here and that's simply not a worthy opinion because again, we are you, especially this region because it's where our most recent ancestors came from so like I said, bashing the US is bashing yourself and feeling the way you do with blanket statements based on what I've shared only leads to more dark thinking and I really hope you're lives are full and not as dark as some of your comments cast.
I'm truly interested in arguing more points and issues with you because, like us both, we can learn some things and both get wiser...
