@TENN: There is at least a way to prevent this sort of uncertainty in the future: Require the cops record these events, just as the record traffic stops and such. The question is over whether they announced, and it would be easy to know if you had the whole experience on tape.

Seriously, technology continues to progress, so recorders are relatively inexpensive and small. I don't know of a good reason not to do it, for the sake of public transparency, and to avoid situations like this.

Cops without recorders are like Court-rooms without stenographers.

@JS7A (27): Are you seriously asking this question? Hillary, who voted for the war and patriot act, helping enable the hundreds of thousands of deaths we've seen since (American and Iraqi), and trillions of dollars spent, versus a busy guy who unintentionally allowed a jackass to write under his name?

Seriously, look at his 30+ year record and his writings, these statements are ridiculously out of style for him, and only happen in a few week period 10 years ago. This is a pointless, irrelevant smear.

@Lars Haeh (26): Sorry, I'll grant that some of us are a bit over-zealous, but the campaign is growing and those people are becoming more and more a minority. Look around on youtube and the like, or in your local community, and you'll find we're mostly just regular folks concerned about the direction of the country toward more war and more centralized power, and towards less accountability from the people.

Would be nice to be able to delete dupes...

The connection with Milton Friedman is, quite simply, BS.

For example, the quote she cites is distorted via cherry-picking:

There is enormous inertia—a tyranny of the status quo—in private and especially governmental arrangements. Only a crisis—actual or perceived— produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable.

He wasn't advocating this, simply stating a fact about political change. Change doesn't happen unless there is a reason for it to happen, a motivational force to bring something to being. A bad policy can lead to crisis, a natural event can lead to crisis.

Klein indulges her biases to the point where she unfairly paints her enemies as madmen.

The connection with Milton Friedman is, quite simply, BS.

For example, the quote she cites is distorted via cherry-picking:

There is enormous inertia—a tyranny of the status quo—in private and especially governmental arrangements. Only a crisis—actual or perceived— produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable.

He wasn't advocating "shock therapy," simply stating a fact about the nature of political change. Change doesn't happen unless there is a reason for it to happen, a motivational force to bring something to being. A bad policy can lead to crisis, a natural event can lead to crisis.

Klein indulges her biases to the point where she dishonestly portrays her enemies as madmen.