Granted, it's coming from an obviously opinionated source, but the video is as tangible as evidence gets. I just hope a stop can be put to these kinds of outrages as some semblance of sanity returns to this country...
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I'm deeply and truly disturbed by this. The United States of America has turned into the very thing it's been invading other countries to stop. An evil, power hungry police state. The terrorists aren't in the middle east. They're in your government, and your police stations. A while ago I made a prediction that a terrorist nuclear device will be set off in the continental United States within the next ten years. I'm now slashing that to five years. The US government is digging it's own countries grave. And it won't be long until it puts a gun to it's own head as well.
I'm afraid of what the future will hold for the world. You should be too.
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I'm so glad I decided not to apply to UCLA...
I saw the article on Defamer and was shocked... I wonder how UCLA will respond to this.
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As someone not-American, the phrase "UCLA police" already sounds really weird and kind of scary. Universities have (corrupt, power-hungry, crazy) police departments?
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This is utterly, utterly digusting. Scary too.
What I didn't like is that so many people just stood there for so long!! At least a few were pleading with them to stop - but this happened in a place of higher learning! The meat-head "police" were probably annoyed they didn't have the grades to go there. DISGUSTING!
Why isn't this on mainstream media?? When did it happen?
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quote:Originally posted by Harry: As someone not-American, the phrase "UCLA police" already sounds really weird and kind of scary. Universities have (corrupt, power-hungry, crazy) police departments?
I'm suprised to hear your universities don't have police departments. Universities are large and have their own rules and needs that a city's regular police department just can't provide (especially on game day!). Of course, I'd say most of their purpose is to make the students feel safe enough to be able to walk home from the library at 3am. (Parking enforcement, at least where I went, was a separate sub-department.)
I'm curious as to what led up to when the video started. I remember having to show my ID when entering the library at Georgia Tech because it is *not* a public library, and the resources there are only for students and researchers.
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There is a campus police force at my university, but I hardly ever see them. We have a total of 4 libraries on campus and I have never had to show my ID to gain entrance at all. ID is only ever used to check out books or equipment (the libraries have laptops and a wireless network set up). This really scares me as my university has a large contingnent of international students with the majority of them being Middle Eastern or Chinese. Makes me glad that I'm in Canada...
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So, how much longer before the UN imposes sanctions and we get invaded ourselves?
Hopefully shortly after Bush II calls off the '08 elections.
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I say once again: George W. Bush = Nehemiah Scudder.
At least we'll get the Covenant out of all of this.
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I must say, a 'university police' does sound disturbing. Are these public bodies or employed directly by the university?
I know a lot of American universities are larger that British ones and also seem to be more concentrated/have less to do w/the town they're located in but even so a specialised police force seems excessive. I know my university proctors and constables technically have the same powers as a Constable w/in 5 miles of Great St. Mary's church but that seems to be more of a traditional thing than anything else.
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Employed by the uni, but working in cooperation with the local civs.
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So do they have the same powers as a regular copper or just citizen's arrest powers but a nice, shiny uniform like PCSOs?
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I think it differs from uni to uni. Here is info on the cops for my local uni.
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