iamaboringperson wrote:
This is truely unbelievable!
(You'd like this one, Fluff:)
I'm not sure how I'm supposed to like that? Bad cops are bad. I don't like the US "cops" kicking Iraqi's around in their own country and I don't like Australian cops abusing US citizens who are in Australia.
OTOH, the Australian cops have every right to be in Australia, but the US "cops" have no legitimacy to be in Iraq.
This is a straight up bad cop story, and that is not an uncommon story as it seems to attract some rum characters who get off on the power. The big story, I suppose, is that the people being abused here are American students and that the taunts involved reference to Iraq.
Let's not forget that the students were not blameless in this, either. This was retributive abuse. If the students had been Australian, and picked a fight with a bunch of off-duties, and the cops had kicked the crap out of them, what would the story be then? Would I still love it? Or is it because they abuse Americans that I am supposed to find the tale so beguiling?