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October 31, 2005
Halloween!!
Hi everyone, how was Halloween weekend for all of you? Anything spectacular? Please post any good stories as comments if you have them. My weekend was going good until the end Saturday night when it was ruined by a perfectly ignorant police officer. We were at this awesome party which pretictably was busted up by the cops. This idiot comes in yelling for everyone to leave and then shouts at the top of his lungs, "Do you realize REAL people live here, people with jobs!!!" This really got me going along with a lot of other people. I promply marched up to this moron and introduced myself as indeed a REAL person with a job, thank you very much! So did quite a few other individuals. Why is it that law enforcement always has to be disrespectful! Having a nice gathering on a Saturday night is not illegal and certainly does not warrant such disrespect. Now I have traveled and lived in quite a few different countries and I can say from my experience and knowledge that this crap coming from an officer of the law would not fly in any of those places? Why is it so common here? In other places, young adults have an extreme advantage over those in the U.S. when it comes to respect. I remember talking with this girl from Vancouver about the subject of partying, she was astonished when I told her police always came to disrupt private parties, so were my Swedish, French, German, Italian, English, Danish, Norwegian, Greek, Spanish, Icelandic, Swiss, Austrian, Australian, and Brazilian friends that I have met during my travels. What is the deal here? Why is law enforcement such a pain in this country? Do you know in Denmark police cant come into your home for any reason unless you let them? In Norway if you lay on the ground a police officer cannot physicaly touch you in any way, if he does he will be promptly fired. Police brutality and disrespect towards citizens does not occur in these places. I am riled up now, sorry for subjecting you all to my anger. see you guys soon
Posted by at October 31, 2005 1:11 PM
Comments
Hey Brian,
I liked this post. I ran into a cop like that my freshman year at Gustavus. And, by the way, after going to Gustavus, I totally think that it's lax here. In St. Peter (where Gustavus is), cops would bust all of the parites that they possibly could. But, not only would they just kick people out, but they'd pass out minors to everyone underage, distributing alcohol to minor tickets to people who were of age, and noise complaints to the people who lived there. Then they'd tell Gustavus and the people's landlords. It was insane. And, if you got two of those writeups you'd go to jail for a weekend. So, two minors meant jail for four nights in a row. Kids had to get their teachers to get them off the hook, sometimes, just so that they could go take their finals and not fail... all beacuse they went to some party in a town where all of their income comes in from A) the school and B) the liquor purchased by the college students and, I guess C) the tickets issued to those kids who easily are allowed to buy alcohol when they're underage.
Anyway, you should tell us all more about your travels, that's really interesting. Who did you go there with? I've traveled quite a bit, but with my parents, so i didn't really get to meet any friends.
As for the writing center.... this is an interesting idea of authority. it's important to know that even though people might do what the authorities say (this can be cops or professors or tutors...) they might not respect them. so, as tutors, we need to make sure we don't ask for too much undeserved authority... because maybe people won't come back...?
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