I'm gonna get even with every rotten cop in this city. You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna turn in my badge!

Jesse Walker | February 11, 2006

This is rich:

The demonstrators arrived angry, departed furious. The police had herded them into pens. Stopped them from handing out fliers. Threatened them with arrest for standing on public sidewalks. Made notes on which politicians they cheered and who they razzed.

Meanwhile, officers from a special unit videotaped their faces, evoking for one demonstrator the unblinking eye of George Orwell's "1984."

"That's Big Brother watching you," the demonstrator, Walter Liddy, said in a deposition.

Mr. Liddy's complaint about police tactics, while hardly novel from a big-city protester, stands out because of his job: He is a New York City police officer. The rallies he attended were organized in the summer of 2004 by his union, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, to protest the pace of contract talks with the city.

[Via Kevin Carson.]

Comments

|2.11.06 @ 9:54PM|#

"That's Big Brother watching you, the demonstrator, Walter Liddy, said in a deposition."

I bet this guy either wouldn't have said shit if he were on the payroll that day, or would have done the same thing as those he describes as "Big Brother."

Oh whoops, there I go with my unwarranted character defamations...

|2.11.06 @ 10:04PM|#

I guess I am missing the joke.
What do you think is so funny?

Unclaimed Mysteries|2.11.06 @ 10:52PM|#

I'll do it:

YEAH! I'M GONNA BURN MY UNIFORM!

|2.11.06 @ 11:54PM|#

Now, andy... You really shouldn't --

No, wait, you're probably right.

|2.12.06 @ 12:55AM|#

Re the byline: refresh my memory...is that from Serpico?

|2.12.06 @ 2:01AM|#

He, who rides on its back, might also wind up in the belly of the beast. No one is safe until the vile monster is securely chained. The chains are called The Bill of Rights.

|2.12.06 @ 8:22AM|#

I don't think this is much of a story - NYPD protests turned into riots in the 1980's, which is just a little weird

|2.12.06 @ 8:38AM|#

YEAH! I'M GONNA BURN MY UNIFORM!

Thanks, half-pint. You just saved me a lot of investigative work.

|2.12.06 @ 9:09AM|#

authority without consequences - legacy of bush - government is free to be stupid.

Warren|2.12.06 @ 9:12AM|#

If the police don't want to live in a police state, isn't that a good thing?

|2.12.06 @ 9:23AM|#

"If the police don't want to live in a police state, isn't that a good thing?"

The police don't want to live in a police state when they're not the ones in KKKontrol.

dhex|2.12.06 @ 10:09AM|#

someone upload some crass mp3s STAT!

no, i'm fucking serious about that.

|2.12.06 @ 11:21AM|#

stan:
authority without consequences - legacy of bush - government is free to be stupid.

Man, I hope you don't really believe that it was Bush who invented that concept. Government's been fucking up due to lack of consequences for a very long time.

|2.12.06 @ 11:34AM|#

.. so, who"s the Firesign Theatre fan on the staff?? .. this is not the first FT quote in the headlines..

.. more sugar!!

.. Hobbit

|2.12.06 @ 12:03PM|#

I'm not a drinkin' man, Mr. Cox, but I swear to Hell I saw it!

Kevin Carson|2.12.06 @ 2:04PM|#

Thanks for the link, Jesse.

Jim Walsh, I think the allusion is to Firesign Theater.

Jesse Walker|2.12.06 @ 2:35PM|#

I'm the Firesign Theater fan in this case, Jemez, though there may be others. On the blog we write our own headlines.

|2.12.06 @ 3:28PM|#

He's no fun, he fell right over!

|2.12.06 @ 8:09PM|#

Firesign Theater. Ah yes, I remember that. More Science High. Right? I had a friend tell me; "They got high on more science". Far out.

|2.13.06 @ 1:30AM|#

What a great header...made me go drag out all my Firesign Theatre CD's for a marathon session. Thanks! Uh, now what was the post about? I forgot to read it....