Good morning.
Off to a slow start this morning. Let's check out what's been going on around the SoFla blogosphere, shall we? Here's your morning Sift.
A- Obalesque shares some thoughts on Martin Luther King Day.
We have a long way to go, especially among gunnie cretins waving bibles and copies of the Bill of Rights to defend their god-given rights to hate people to death they think are different from themselves. But at least nobody has asked to see a birth certificate lately.B- Someday Carlos Miller is going to realize that trying to reason with a security guard about constitutional issues is kinda like trying to calmly explain to the guy who just cut you off in traffic that what he did was really rude and inconsiderate.
I was attacked, choked, suffocated and handcuffed by 50 State security guards for shooting video on the Miami-Dade Metrorail Sunday night, escalating a pending state lawsuit into a possible federal suit.C- Bark Bark Woof Woof also has been thinking about MLK Day.
Perhaps the greatest impression that Dr. King had on me was his unswerving dedication to non-violence in his pursuit of civil rights. He withstood taunts, provocations, and rank invasions of his privacy and his life at the hands of racists, hate-mongers, and the federal government, yet he never raised a hand in anger against anyone. He deplored the idea of an eye for an eye, and he knew that responding in kind would only set back the cause. I was also impressed that his spirituality and faith were his armor and his shield, not his weapon, and he never tried to force his religion on anyone else. The supreme irony was that he died at the hands of violence, much like his role model, Mahatma Gandhi.D- Florida Keys Girl previews the Key West Food and Wine Festival.
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B- when we simply let people walk all over our civil rights, we surrender those rights. Carlos did the right thing. We should all have the courage to stand up for our rights, ESPECIALLY if it's a clueless jerk in a uniform. They need to know better; after all, they are the reason we HAVE a bill of rights.
And now that I figured out how to use my cel phone as a dash cam, I just send photos of scofflaws in action to the highway patrol.
CLJ...There isn't any debate that the conduct of these guards was wrong. Not allowed to photograph the train rails? Really? What kind of buffoonery is that?
And most of us understand that these guys are security guards because they don't have what it takes to be sworn officers.
So I'm not quite sure why Carlos continues to revisit this collection pond of stupid. To demonstrate that some security guards remain thick-headed bullies? Does that really need to be demonstrated...at great expense, both financially and physically, to Miller?
I think we all should expect the most from our sworn police officers and something decidedly less from security guards. Again, that's not to excuse bad behavior, but to stop spending a lifetime expecting to find something better from the lowest fruit on the vine and being terribly disappointed almost every time.
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And yet, how do we know that security guards aren't ignorant of their duties until they are tested? As Carolos has shown us, it needs to be done, because they don't know.
So yes, it really does need to be demonstrated, again and again and again, until our elected officials gain the gumption to fix it.
Because anything less IS excusing it.
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