Roter Baron

Holy crap! I just watched the video of the shooting! WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!!!
 
They drive through the park, stop what looks like 15 feet away from the kid, probably scaring the living (soo to be dead) dalight out of the boy who may or may not move his hand (can't see that) to the "gun".
And basically gun the kid down in what looks like a cop-drive-by!
 
From what I heard before I thought they were stopping the car at the pavement, shouted at the boy who then blatantly and full of pre-puberty machisma pointed the toy-gun at the cop - who then, of course, shot to defend himself, not knowing he was only faced with a toy.
 
This looks more like "[sCREECHING TIRES] DROP IT, PUNK!" - "What the ..." - "BLAM!" - Problem solved.
Where did these guys get their training as officers of the law? Grand Theft Auto?
 
Now I can really see why people are really upset about this kind of behaviour - police officers behaving like gang-bangers in uniform!
 
This.
Is.
Shameful.
 
Please note that I am not a cop basher: At my old school we had a top-notch neighbourhood officer, Polizeihauptkommissar Heiko Müller. Great guy, more the fatherly type and 100% helpful when he had a bad day. Usually had a mediocre day and then gave like 150% plus. On a good day scored way higher.
 
It really takes more than a gun to be a good and efficient policeman, as Heiko is living proof: He really serves and protects his community.
These .... (I don't have words or them) ... don't belong to the force.
 
I am really shocked.
 
P.S.: Just read the thread one more time and understand that fellow forum-member Marcus Impudite is a police officer who distances himself from these wrongdoings. My hat's off to you, Sir, and it proves what I just said about your German fellow officer Müller: Don't judge all the cops by these (extremely bad) examples.
Most people don't have contact with police on a friendly basis - usually we only get to speak with them when we get a ticket or when we need theire help - and then we wish that they get the job done like yesterday as if they had a magic wand to make all our perceived evils go away at once.
Of course, we then have a rather bleak perception on them and the service they do. The majority is just doing their job - and a lot if not most in the most professional way they humanly can.

Speaking as a demon, I consider it an insult to be compared to the cops in most of those localities.

Leonard Pitts Jr commented on much the same thing in this article. Particularly in the bottom half
 
He sums it up with "An argument can be made that rights which aren’t respected in the moment they are asserted are not really rights at all."
 
We are dangerously close to a state of slack martial law, one that can instantly be tightened and brought to full force at any time by any police officer in a 20 foot or more radius around him even when there is no crime.

My two €-cents:
1) There seems to be a lack of training on the part of US police officers. If you compare the number of people killed by police in the USA and Germany in the year 2013 you will find that US police killed about 320 people (Wikipedia), German police 19. Another number I found is 1,450.
Even if you break it down in relation to the different population size (350 Mio to 80 Mio) that is 3.7 times as many (or even 17 times!) killed by police.
I am not saying that all and every killing was unjustified, but the difference is astounding. Either Americans are much more violent than Germans and can only be stopped by deadly force, or US police is more trigger-happy.
2) The influx of military equipment and weapons seems to foster a more militaristic mind-set with cops.
3) That, coupled with ongoing military campaigns for the last 14 years plus the ongoing siege mentality in the US ("Terrorists are out to get us!") plus an ongoing class-warfare that keeps a lot of middle and working class Americans in a state of debt while lowering their incomes seem to make society more on edge. "More on edge" means that people (ordinary citizens, the underclass, the cops, politicians) may get the message: "They are out to get YOU! Don't give them a chance.
 
So, if you get ill-trained, gung-ho, financially insecure police officers in a society ripe with frustration in the street and they meet financially insecure, frustrated and potentially or seemingly violent people it is only a question of time and place when desasters will happen.
 
And I didn't even speak about the American obsession and proliferation of guns which makes it more likely for police to be shot at.
 
And I stayed clear of accusations of racism - mainly because I think it is more classism than racism: To my knowledge the people killed where more on the poorer side than on the well-to-do side of society (one a student, one a kid, one a family father trying to make a living by selling single cigarettes ina park). There is a strong correlation of being black and being poor in America (like in Germany with having Turkish roots and being a school-drop-out and poor).
 
That being said, I am assessing this from 8,000 miles afar - as a German.

The inspiration for the German Eurovision song contest winning song 'A Little Peace'was Der Roter Baron. Specifically his neighbours who wany him to quiten down so they could get a little peace and quiet.

My two €-cents:
1) There seems to be a lack of training on the part of US police officers. If you compare the number of people killed by police in the USA and Germany in the year 2013 you will find that US police killed about 320 people (Wikipedia), German police 19. Another number I found is 1,450.
Even if you break it down in relation to the different population size (350 Mio to 80 Mio) that is 3.7 times as many (or even 17 times!) killed by police.
I am not saying that all and every killing was unjustified, but the difference is astounding. Either Americans are much more violent than Germans and can only be stopped by deadly force, or US police is more trigger-happy.
2) The influx of military equipment and weapons seems to foster a more militaristic mind-set with cops.
3) That, coupled with ongoing military campaigns for the last 14 years plus the ongoing siege mentality in the US ("Terrorists are out to get us!") plus an ongoing class-warfare that keeps a lot of middle and working class Americans in a state of debt while lowering their incomes seem to make society more on edge. "More on edge" means that people (ordinary citizens, the underclass, the cops, politicians) may get the message: "They are out to get YOU! Don't give them a chance.
 
So, if you get ill-trained, gung-ho, financially insecure police officers in a society ripe with frustration in the street and they meet financially insecure, frustrated and potentially or seemingly violent people it is only a question of time and place when desasters will happen.
 
And I didn't even speak about the American obsession and proliferation of guns which makes it more likely for police to be shot at.
 
And I stayed clear of accusations of racism - mainly because I think it is more classism than racism: To my knowledge the people killed where more on the poorer side than on the well-to-do side of society (one a student, one a kid, one a family father trying to make a living by selling single cigarettes ina park). There is a strong correlation of being black and being poor in America (like in Germany with having Turkish roots and being a school-drop-out and poor).
 
That being said, I am assessing this from 8,000 miles afar - as a German.

,.......
 
Now I want to write a game in which villagers turn zombies into villagers....
 
 
Lucius Alexander
 
Turning into a palindromedary

"So the villagers have never been in this dungeon."
 
"How do you know?"
 
"Because the dungeon is full of zombies and villagers don't like zombies."
 
"Why don't they like zombies?"
 
"The zombies come and attack the villagers, and turn them into zombies."
 
"Why don't the villagers attack the zombies and turn them into villagers?"
 
"Because it works like in real life, where the zombies eat the villagers' brains."
 
"Oh.  Okay."

How do you stop a Rhino from charging?
 
 
 

When obliged to converse about chemistry in English, Roter Baron always mispronounces "gadolinium" as "goddammium".

Very pretty and talented, but that's what 10/10 on the narcissism scale looks like.

Hastur, Hastur, Hastur is my friend.
Hastur, Hastur my friend that will rend
you with his many teethies
and clawies and stuff.
When you are dea-hed
that means you had enough!
 
From Death Tribble's "Kindergarten Songbook for the Sweet Little (Deep) Ones -Christmas Edition"
 
Not judging, just telling.

He strides across the nation,
That German full of vim
He needs renovation
as he's been on the gin,
he rejects evaluation
and lets the games begin
A heinous, a show of force
its just the Baron in his shorts !
 
That's Der Roter Baron

Death Tribble a.k.a. Death Tribblestein keeps trying to create a new super-race by breeding the Loch Ness Monster with assorted Tory MPs.
Spawns of this unholy and conter-natural union so far : John Major and David Cameron and no end in sight.
 
And - yes- Nessie's maiden name was Roberts.

If Roter Baron's gambit pays off, he'll gain so much status that he'll change his handle to Roter Herzog.

Asbestos Suit On!
 
I feel no need to identify myself as cis-male -- and will not be bullied into doing so.
 
This is because, while one may outwardly adopt the gender and indicia of the opposite sex, there is more to being male or female than those things.
 
It is genetic, biochemical, and experiential -- XX and XY are facts.
 
I am "a man in a woman's body" or a "woman in a man's body" or "was born in the wrong body" are beliefs.
 
I feel no obligation to acquiesce to another persons subjective beliefs about reality ab initio -- and find such an expectation laughable.
 
I am aware some preliminary studies appear to indicate transgender people have neurological structures distinct from normative male and female structures.
 
The painfully obvious problem -- those structures don't match either normative male or normative female neurological structures.
 
Nor do we know if this is a third distinct structure, or a rare variation that results in highly individuated neurological structures.
 
However, even if that is the case, the sex chromosomes, sexual organs, and glandular systems that go with it are decidedly male or female.
 
Anomalous hermaphrodites aside, there is no third or individuated sex to be born into.
 
To quote Gloria Steinem: "If the shoe doesn't fit, must we then cut off the foot?"
 
I generally prefer to treat transgender people with dignity and in person will use their preferred gender pronoun to avoid hurt and conflict.
 
After all, I have already conceded one might choose to emulate the opposite gender.
 
But, as for me. I'm just male. You know, possessed of the coveted Y.
 
I will never be cis-male because I regard linguistic coercion in the form of "correct terms" as set of thought interrupting cliches.
 
Why?
 
Firstly, if it is sensible and flows from reality it can be said in plain language.
 
But, beyond that, the PC movement exhibits linguistic intolerance and repression, and thus poses a serious free speech issue. Moreover, "political" strongly implies official coercion while "correctness" directly correlates to policy and law.
 
It has no place in anthropology, ethics, history sociology, literature, art, religion, philosophy, or culture. In fact, its antithetical to all of those great human pursuits.
 
To quote Northrup Frye's famous 1954 essay, "Political and social criticism being passed off as literary criticism is nothing more than a 'substitute for criticism'"
 
To wit, political correctness as a language reform movement has gone well beyond the provinces of language and entered other areas which are are inappropriate, ineffective and counterproductive to its stated aims. In doing so it frequently engenders erroneous conclusions, delusional beliefs, and prejudiced perceptions. Indeed, it becomes an ironic caricature of itself.
 
Prof. Jeff Johnson: "The most pernicious form of intolerance is 'political correctness' because it comes disguised as tolerance"
 
My concern, however, is that the real problems of prejudice, racism, inequality, and powerlessness, cannot be significantly grappled with without honest, open dialogue, however messy and hurtful it may at times be. Political correctness is a straightjacket for freedom on conscience, freedom of expression, and freedom of thought -- all of which are a part and parcel of meaningful discourse.
 
A milquetoast discussion in which some views are correct and others incorrect from the outset (preempting critical thinking), or in which one feels entitled to never hear an opinion that they disagree with or they find hurtful (enabling tepid spirited fools and cowards) is no discussion at all -- its dogma; foregone conclusions.
 
To wit, "imposing a new orthodoxy is not the way to tackle prejudice." Frye again.
 
Or, "Inventing new ugly, tendentious words is not the answer to old ugly, racist or sexist ones. Calling wives 'unpaid sex workers' or whatever is not going to reduce domestic violence." Lingman.
 
Or, "Ultimately, however, we hope we use language that is more sensitive without enforcing strident political correctness or orthodoxy." Francine Fairkoff.
 
Nor will the inevitable and soulless shaming tactics and name-calling and prejudicial citations of privilege that begin when one uses a term deemed "incorrect" aid us solving social problems, enhancing justice, or even engendering the frank dialogue needed to accomplish that lofty aim. Charges ending with the invariable suffix "-ist" are often as dirty and vile as what they seek to imply.
 
Language, when used as a weapon -- or as a coercive sociopolitical mechanism -- does violence to the dignity of intellect and truth.
 
Or, to quote Jean Luc Picard: "There are FOUR lights."
 
If it is true, the facts will bear it out. Otherwise, its just an unproven social construction of subjective individual beliefs.
 
"It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought ... should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words." - George Orwell, 1984
 
ASBESTOS SUIT OFF!

RB is half-Dalek. True story. Every time he sees his own reflection, he goes "You. Are. Unclean. ANNIHILATE! ANNIHILATE!"

BlueCloud2k2 insisted on playing WORLD MONOPOLY with real money and stocks in 2008 on a Wallstreet party that he wasn't even invited to.
Voilá - crashed the party AND the system!

Not so fantastic: My doctor was rather confused. The boob-job's okay but what the heck do I do with two dicks?
 
Speaking of which: BlueCloud2k2 once had the clever idea to tell Dick Cheney what he thinks of him to his face. He is still hiding in a cave in ... nope, I am not telling! Let's just say it is a deserty place full of strange people with outlandish customs who speak a language that sometimes don't sound like English.
 
 
(Yeah, okay. Was way too easy. Yep, he is hiding in L.A., California, Holywood Drive # 2367. Sorry, BC, was nice knowing you ...)

Hey, it's "Complicated", not "Assassinate the Person('s Good Name) Above"!
 
Speaking of which:
BlueCloud2k2 is a decendent of th Old Man from the Mountain, Leader of Assassins and Terrorists.
Of course he has lowered the bar considerably: He terrorizes waitresses with petty complains and kills the good mood in pubs for everybody!

L. Marcus is the mastermind behind the plan of Sweden leaving the EU and the UNO.
And Europe plus the planet Earth entirely.
He wants to found Neuschweden on the planet Mars and (see the name) change the nation's language into German and do away with the King - he wants to crowm a Über-Quisling for life as a dictator.
 
German as the new Swedish, Quisling was Norwegian - please go and see a shrink, man.
 
The plan of a Swedish colony seems sensible though.

RB is the inventor of the Swedish Meatball.
 
That's right. He's a closet Swede. In fact, Rotor Baron is so Swedish he makes L. Marcus look Hungarian.
 
 
I've heard that term before you used it. So I guess it does exist.

Roter Baron has an entire room in the Imperial War Museum dedicated to his WW1 antics with the Kaiserliche Igelkavallerie-Regiment. They made very short work of the Moroccan Nematode Corps at Maubeuge in August 1914.

Roter Baron is not off his meds...
 he's just built up an immunity to them.

Roter Baron tried to steal a time machine to go back and kill Hitler, only to discover Hitler was really an alien robot sent to undermine the German people and prepare Earth for the Invasion.
 
So Roter Baron killed mecha-Hitler.
 
Unfortunately after he traveled back to the future, the aliens sent another Mecha-Hitler.
 
Luckily the replacement Mecha-Hitler was slightly insane and failed to function at 100%.
 
So even though he failed in his mission to stop Hitler, Roter Baron saved the Earth and Humanity from Evil Alien Overlords TM