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In reply to the discussion: Pussy Riot Members Beaten in Sochi Public Square [View all]Wash. state Desk Jet
(3,426 posts)Oakland police ,my goodness, what in the world does the Oakland police department have to do with the issues surrounding the issue at hand in topic ? I mean holy cow and gee wizz too are you saying what this is ,is not better or worse than it is anyway and anywhere else ?
My point to my question is this,what are you getting at ? Because it seems to look as though you are signing off on the Cossacks .
Back in the 60's here in America some of those cops and even in Oakland Ca. thought it was a criminal offense to have an american flag patch sewn onto the back of your jeans to cover the holes or a hole . And they didn't like those peace symbol patch's either. But there was no law to back up the said offense's,not even in the form of city ordinances, which means those cops were attempting to enforce their own opinions and not the law.
By 1972 the voting age came down from 21 to 18 years of age so, down the avenues of city ordinances ,it didn't seem a wise decision for those city politicians to mess around with the up coming voters because many of those voters liked to sew patches on their jeans that may have seemed unseemly to some people and perfectly acceptable to others ! You see cops wore the flag patch on their sleeves and soldiers at that time were drafted by the selective service draft board.
And if you really can't connect to the issue at hand ,it's more that way with a little Putin backing behind those views or opinions.
By the time 1970 came along cops seemed to change their opinions about those patch's. In other words there was no law to enforce. And even the mayors in all the little cities feared being run out office by those young voters. ! Not to mention the entire city council !
Back than over here it was Nixon and over there today it's Putin at the face of it.
As the saying goes where there is a will there is a way.
Or is it all in how you look at it ?
Human rights I mean.