Letter to Maddox

Hi "Maddox",

I've read your site over the years and usually agree with what you write, or at the very least I find myself amused.

The SOPA page is more or less factually correct. I'm not going to argue about most of the points you bring up on that page.

One thing that I did kind of find odd is that you compared the injustice of SOPA to the beating that the scumbag known as Rodney King brought down on himself in 1992.

The facts of the situation, often ignored by the far left and the media in order to stir the usual shit, involve:

A man that was already on probation for drug felonies.

He decided that since the police wanted to pull him over on a freeway, that they might violate his probation, so naturally he did something brilliant...

He led the police on a 115 mile an hour chase, endangering the lives of himself, the police following him, and everyone around him on the freeway.

When the police finally stopped him, it turns out that he was high on crack cocaine, and he proceeded to assault a police officer.

After the police used force to subdue him (maybe a bit too much, but not unprovoked), the minorities decided that the police were profiling him because he was black.

If your definition of "to profile" includes chasing people that run from the police, and/or tasing and whacking them with a baton after they finally get them stopped and after they lunge out to attack a police officer while fueled up on crack cocaine. The police profile a lot of people. ;)

The minorities decided to use the Rodney King incident as an excuse to riot, loot, and torch businesses and homes belonging to people who had nothing to do with the incident at all. Along the way they even managed to shoot and kill each other and innocent bystanders.

Because of these assholes, the police, the National Guard, and active US Army and Marines units declared martial law and illegally curtailed the civil rights of people who hadn't done anything wrong, to restore order and arrest the criminals.

Since the situation was bad enough for the US government to send in the military to act as civilian law enforcement, they got to set a precedent. Later on, they'd expand the role of the military as civilian law enforcement using the nebulous term "terrorism", but that is outside the scope of this topic.

The lasting lesson of Rodney King is that any idiot can show up with a video camera halfway into a situation, provide no context, and the media will keep raping the public with clips from the footage.

For what it's worth, if you thought Rodney King had redeemed himself in the past 20 years and become a productive member of society, you'd be wrong. Here's what Wikipedia says about him (clarifications in brackets are mine):

Since the [1992] arrest... King has been arrested at least a further eleven times on a variety of charges, including domestic abuse and hit-and-run.

Still not following me? Maybe it's because I'm "white" which means "racist" of course. Take what Chris Rock said instead. "When the police have to chase after you, they're bringing an ass kicking with them."

The fact that King was black and got an unscrupulous lawyer were the reasons he got $3.5 million from the tax payers of Los Angeles and the State of California, which he proceeded to lose almost immediately on squandering and lousy investments (including a record label that never produced anything notable)

I'm not sure that SOPA (which is an injustice and an anti-constitutional infringement of civil liberties) compares to the beating that one stupid crackhead brought down on himself or that groups of peaceful Occupy protestors should be compared to an unruly mob of (mostly) minorities who use the situation of the day as an excuse to smash things, steal, and kill innocent people.

You can quote me if you like. I've noticed that the people you tend to cite are like something from a mentally retarded 12 year old on AOL (and usually in all caps), it might be refreshing (if not entirely entertaining) to quote someone that is not intellectually inferior to you.

-Ryan Farmer