There is a #random channel on slack, one can do a #politics one if so needed.
Phil On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 5:36 AM, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote: > Indeed, please let’s focus on Pharo issues on this mailing list. > > Cheers, > Doru > > > > On Dec 20, 2016, at 1:25 AM, Travis Ayres <tray...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Totally agreed. > > > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Brad <bsselfri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Don't know about anyone else, but I would appreciate it if this kind of > commentary never made it to this email list. This topic is so > inappropriate. Let's keep the discussion about Pharo. If you feel you must > go down the political route, then please be gracious enough to find another > venue. > > > > Brad Selfridge > > 913-269-2385 > > > > On Dec 19, 2016, at 6:48 PM, Charlie Robbats <charlie.robb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> Alright, one more sad observation. Of all the Law Enforcement violence, > either perpetrated by LEOs against citizens or by citizens against LEOs, in > all cases I am aware or recall having heard, all of these involve police > officers. No violence, or very little, is perpetrated against or by Sheriff > Deputies. As counties are a good and proper and consistent scope of crime > administration, regardless of the density, police ought to report to the > Sheriffs and let's put and end to broken windows policy and discriminatory > enforcement. Police are always in our shit, and have their egos to boot. > Sheriff Deputies, by comparison, are laid back and easy to talk to. They > engage the public in respect, without attitude. > >> > >> Bob didn't shoot the deputy. > >> > >> On 12/17/2016 10:11 PM, Charlie Robbats wrote: > >>> Last bit, a mantra: Crime & Punishment creates massive mental illness > in our society. Ask the Russians. > >>> > >>> On 12/17/2016 10:05 PM, Charlie Robbats wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Well, my paranoia is kicking. I spoke too broadly of police, I have > interacted with many and they do a lot of good. A bad apple spoils the > whatever and their code of silence allows for that sort of rot. I tell it > straight, because they monitor the list. I pissed them off! Do you think it > passed the sanity test that cops run all street drugs with their felon > database in hand? Damn! All those Fellas are going to turn and bite their > masters' hand, you watch! Stacking these grown men like Twinkies in > overcrowded prisons. There is a debt that needs to be paid and the > righteous are those in prison on a bunch of bullshit paper. Vive la > revolucion! Ok, sorry I went political. I am done. > >>>> > >>>> On 12/17/2016 9:49 PM, Charlie Robbats wrote: > >>>>> I am sad with you in your diagnosis. I get that too, the blues. I > get high if I am holding and listen to "Kind of Blue" or deep house or > reggae. Some X would be good, but herbage is my mainstay to drop my > constant threat mode (hypervigilence). I do not want a repeat of what > happened! Unfortunately I drive people away to make sure of that. I > appreciate your alls kindness. I wanted to share a solid explanation of why > I am such a dick at times. I flip to active threat mode, I struggle to > control this. It doesn't help that the police have been stalking me for 2 > years, I am all caught up in their noise. Don't believe a word of their > truthfulness. The blue wall of silence breaks God's commandment thou shalt > not bear false witness. Police violate that daily, protecting their > brothers who shoot unarmed black men in the back and claim they are fearing > for their lives. Really? No, really? Well, that is a different story. That > just freaking triggers me. And my opinion makes me their target. At least > in my C-PTSD befuddled mind. > >>>>> Be well all! > >> > > > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > www.feenk.com > > "Things happen when they happen, > not when you talk about them happening." > > > >