Comments on: Orson Wells On Police, Passports, And The Erosion Of Rights

By: Haystack

Haystack — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:57:53 +0000

It seems to depend on who is currently president.

By: Haystack

Haystack — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:57:00 +0000

It seems to depend on who is currently president.

By: Beeter12

Beeter12 — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:37:31 +0000

An intelligent articulate man, and yet twice he referred to the “Negro” in question (an adult war veteran) as “the boy.” As did Ingmar Bergman in “Casablanca”–no wonder white people got weird when Afro-American jazz musicians started calling each other “man.” Even the humanitarians among them didn't like the idea of people of color being considered full adult humans. Have we changed much????

By: Bruinhill71

Bruinhill71 — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:33:00 +0000

Maybe in the past, but not now–now it's the former “states' rights” party that wants to make sure that everything that's not forbidden is mandatory. Welcome to the present…y'all

By: RONIN

RONIN — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 02:58:27 +0000

HAHAHAHAHA. An atom bomb in his bag. That's priceless.

Good ol' Orson Wells. A man after my own heart.

By: Cerebralcaustic

Cerebralcaustic — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:39:08 +0000

Y'all know that distrust of centralized government authority is trait of *conservative* philosophy, dontcha? And that expanding the size and scope of government authority is a defining trait of leftist philosophy?

Read Edmund Burke, y'll

By: VoxMagi

VoxMagi — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 18:42:58 +0000

Kudos to Jacob Sloan! Wonderful and relevant even a half century later !

By: Fabian_Ramos

Fabian_Ramos — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:39:48 +0000

I hear ya man

By: GoodDoktorBad

GoodDoktorBad — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:28:48 +0000

Wow, Orson Wells was quite an interesting man. Quite a relevent and honest -human view of “Police, Passports, And The Erosion Of Rights”. Much more relevent and “in your face” now -then then.
Excellent post!

By: Hmm...

Hmm... — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:21:34 +0000

Funny.

So far I've had a few experiances with the police. Now I'm a very large man, tall with broad shoulders, a lantern jaw and I tend to frown as my normal expression. Ive had guns pulled on me every time I've ever interacted with the police, except for a traffic stop where I wasn't ticketed. I'm talking about times where I was moving slowly and showing submission, and for such terrible crimes as Marijuana possession.

If he turns around, lays on the ground and puts his hands behind his back, he probably doesn't need a gun to his head to subdue him.

I know this isn't quite on topic, but Mr. Welles reminded me of a particular incident.