Reply #70: Well, I'm not sure what you mean...have I ever defended anyone's right to

[karlrschneider]

assault and rob anybody? If I did, I'll have to say that was a time when I wasn't myself. I'm not
supporting (or opposing) what the cops did at the suspect's house*, my comment was if I had seen the
crime -being committed-. You might know I worked my way through college as a cop in Tulsa and I've
told many stories of atrocities I observed done by policeman - and that many times I bypassed the 'good old boy' chain of command and reported incidents to a certain VVIP who was a good friend of mine which got some action without me getting in the middle.

* because I don't know precisely what happened at that house, I wasn't there.
KS