O'Reilly: Pepper Spray Is a Food Product

[Seth]

The police were operating fully within their authority to remove protesters from a public sidewalk after numerous warnings they would be pepper-sprayed. The protesters will lose because they were violating the law by obstructing a public sidewalk and disobeyed lawful orders to disperse.

Which is the point of a protest - to not move when ordered to and force the authorities into taking action that can then be used to promote sympathy for the protesters. Which is exactly how it is playing out. Fox News is a mouthpiece for the powers that be and can be expected to spin it the other way.

Correct, as I've said many times. They knew what was going to happen and they CHOSE to be sprayed as a part of their agenda of civil disobedience. When one engages in civil disobedience, one must be willing to accept the punishment that one incurs if one hopes to provide the message that the punishment was unjust.

In this case, the punishment was NOT unjust, but they had every right to try to convey that message.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

No chance the police would act reasonably, correct?

[Feck]

I'd quite like to get sprayed with pepper spray just to find out what it's like.

OK remind me if next time we meet .

[DaveD]

The police were operating fully within their authority to remove protesters from a public sidewalk after numerous warnings they would be pepper-sprayed. The protesters will lose because they were violating the law by obstructing a public sidewalk and disobeyed lawful orders to disperse.

Which is the point of a protest - to not move when ordered to and force the authorities into taking action that can then be used to promote sympathy for the protesters. Which is exactly how it is playing out. Fox News is a mouthpiece for the powers that be and can be expected to spin it the other way.

Correct, as I've said many times. They knew what was going to happen and they CHOSE to be sprayed as a part of their agenda of civil disobedience. When one engages in civil disobedience, one must be willing to accept the punishment that one incurs if one hopes to provide the message that the punishment was unjust.

In this case, the punishment was NOT unjust, but they had every right to try to convey that message.

Punishment?
Without even a trial?

[Seth]

The police were operating fully within their authority to remove protesters from a public sidewalk after numerous warnings they would be pepper-sprayed. The protesters will lose because they were violating the law by obstructing a public sidewalk and disobeyed lawful orders to disperse.

Which is the point of a protest - to not move when ordered to and force the authorities into taking action that can then be used to promote sympathy for the protesters. Which is exactly how it is playing out. Fox News is a mouthpiece for the powers that be and can be expected to spin it the other way.

Correct, as I've said many times. They knew what was going to happen and they CHOSE to be sprayed as a part of their agenda of civil disobedience. When one engages in civil disobedience, one must be willing to accept the punishment that one incurs if one hopes to provide the message that the punishment was unjust.

In this case, the punishment was NOT unjust, but they had every right to try to convey that message.

Punishment?
Without even a trial?

Hm, you're right, I used the wrong word. It wasn't punishment, it was just reasonable and appropriate physical force being used to effect an arrest and eject them from their unlawful position on the sidewalk. Thanks for pointing out that locutional error for me.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

You are funny.

[Tyrannical]

Would everyone be happier if they just sprayed Tabasco sauce in their faces? Or maybe Dave's Gourmet Insanity sauce? Pure Cap would be cruel, maybe

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Would everyone be happier if they just sprayed Tabasco sauce in their faces? Or maybe Dave's Gourmet Insanity sauce? Pure Cap would be cruel, maybe

Feck's special "Hell In A Bottle"?

[Azathoth]

The police were operating fully within their authority to remove protesters from a public sidewalk after numerous warnings they would be pepper-sprayed. The protesters will lose because they were violating the law by obstructing a public sidewalk and disobeyed lawful orders to disperse.

Which is the point of a protest - to not move when ordered to and force the authorities into taking action that can then be used to promote sympathy for the protesters. Which is exactly how it is playing out. Fox News is a mouthpiece for the powers that be and can be expected to spin it the other way.

Correct, as I've said many times. They knew what was going to happen and they CHOSE to be sprayed as a part of their agenda of civil disobedience. When one engages in civil disobedience, one must be willing to accept the punishment that one incurs if one hopes to provide the message that the punishment was unjust.

In this case, the punishment was NOT unjust, but they had every right to try to convey that message.

Punishment?
Without even a trial?

Hm, you're right, I used the wrong word. It wasn't punishment, it was just reasonable and appropriate physical force being used to effect an arrest and eject them from their unlawful position on the sidewalk. Thanks for pointing out that locutional error for me.

Reasonable force would have been to lift them up and move them physically off the pavement. If they started fighting that then pepper spray may have been appropriate dependent on the level of their resistance. To just waltz up and spray them is brutality

[Gawd]

Or heaven forbid that the police would actually hire people that can talk politely instead of high school drop outs that like to beat people up for fun.

[redunderthebed]

Reasonable force would have been to lift them up and move them physically off the pavement. If they started fighting that then pepper spray may have been appropriate dependent on the level of their resistance. To just waltz up and spray them is brutality

+1

But then again that would be police work.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Or heaven forbid that the police would actually hire people that can talk politely instead of high school drop outs that like to beat people up for fun.

Yep, they have to be specially bred at a thug ranch and suitably brutalized as children before we'll even consider hiring them. If we didn't use that kind we wouldn't have so many law suits and that would be boring, wouldn't it?

[amused]

Correct, as I've said many times. They knew what was going to happen and they CHOSE to be sprayed as a part of their agenda of civil disobedience. When one engages in civil disobedience, one must be willing to accept the punishment that one incurs if one hopes to provide the message that the punishment was unjust.

In this case, the punishment was NOT unjust, but they had every right to try to convey that message.

Punishment?
Without even a trial?

Hm, you're right, I used the wrong word. It wasn't punishment, it was just reasonable and appropriate physical force being used to effect an arrest and eject them from their unlawful position on the sidewalk. Thanks for pointing out that locutional error for me.

Reasonable force would have been to lift them up and move them physically off the pavement. If they started fighting that then pepper spray may have been appropriate dependent on the level of their resistance. To just waltz up and spray them is brutality

That was my thought as well at first, but if you look at the cop doing the spraying, you'll see a problem. They're not really in good enough physical shape to be safely lifting squirming people without suffering back damage and other physical problems. I believe there is even a lawsuit by a cop against a protester for that very injury.

The point blank pepper spray is overkill, they should have backed up first and clouded the air, then moved a bit closer each time slowly increasing the intensity. IMO. But the photo of the point blank spray is propaganda gold for the protesters.

[Wumbologist]

I like it better than Tabasco sauce. It's got more kick to it, and the spray allows you to more evenly coat your food.

[Wumbologist]

And waterboarding isn't torture, but just an "enhanced interrogation technique"

Correct.

I thought it was a sexy time breathplay sort of thing.