Posted by Kazegami on 04.04.2020, 08:40 PM: Good to see you, jusomekid, it's been a while. Glad you're taking all the precautions you can to stay safe.
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Posted by foreignfilmfreak on 04.04.2020, 11:31 PM: Alive but school starts back up this week. Haha.. ha |
Posted by husky51 on 04.05.2020, 03:55 AM: Glad to see you both, jusomekid and FFF, are doing well... Hang in there... |
Posted by arren18 on 04.05.2020, 08:31 AM: So I learnt last night that my dad has caught it... Of course I'm very worried, but today my mum told me that at the hospital they think he's doing pretty well. I really hope it's going to be okay.
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Posted by husky51 on 04.05.2020, 08:49 PM: Our thoughts are with you and your family, arren... Be safe... Tell your dad, if your are able, that we Taverner's from around the world are think of him... I know that I speak for all of us... |
Posted by arren18 on 04.12.2020, 11:37 PM: I'm afraid I have to update this story with some bad news. Although things seemed pretty positive early on, a few days ago he took a turn for the worse and was no longer likely to recover. Then last night, my brother told me he had just passed away.
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Posted by husky51 on 04.13.2020, 04:00 AM: My heart-felt condolences to you and your Family, arren... I know what it is like to lose a parent... But know that, as I said before, all of us here in the Tavern are with you... |
Posted by Kazegami on 04.13.2020, 07:34 AM: I'm so sorry, arren. I wish we could have beaten this awful thing sooner, it's causing so much pain around the world. My best wishes to you and your family. As Husky said, we're with you.
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Posted by saviour2012 on 04.13.2020, 07:59 AM: So sorry Arren to hear that. Condolence to you and your family.
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Posted by arren18 on 04.13.2020, 10:07 AM: I appreciate the kind messages. And saviour, I'm sorry to hear your family has been affected too.
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Posted by husky51 on 04.13.2020, 02:22 PM: My condolences to you and yours, saviour, on the losses in your family as well... |
Posted by Kazegami on 04.13.2020, 05:27 PM: I'm so sorry to hear that, saviour. Condolences from all of us here.
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Posted by Saddletank on 05.09.2020, 05:10 PM: I'm here. Still playing with toy soldiers.
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Posted by husky51 on 05.09.2020, 11:55 PM: Good to see you again, Saddles... |
Posted by saviour2012 on 06.01.2020, 06:50 AM: From a practicing Lawyer
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Posted by husky51 on 06.01.2020, 10:41 AM:
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Posted by Kazegami on 06.01.2020, 10:52 AM: Thing is, though, these protests aren't about George Floyd, not really. His death was simply the latest in a long, long string of unlawful killings of POC by police. This incident was just the straw that broke the camel's back. Remember how the establishment reacted when Colin Kaepernick was making his peaceful protests about this issue. He was roundly ridiculed and called a traitor. Now they have the gall to act surprised at what's happening now. People have been demonstrating peacefully for decades and nothing seems to have changed. The killings go on and on. And the videos that have been emerging from the protests have been shocking. People being deliberately run over by police cars. Journalists being shot at. People being beaten and thrown to the ground without provocation. There's something really rotten in the police force and I don't know what it's going to take to put it right.
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Posted by saviour2012 on 06.01.2020, 03:46 PM:
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Posted by husky51 on 06.01.2020, 09:29 PM: All I can say in response to both Kaz and saviour is that not ALL police depts are guilty on these violations of human rights... Like terrorism, you hear about the singular events of human rights violations... I worked with the Calif Hwy Patrol in an enforcement capacity dealing with vehicular safety with trucks and buses and transporting of Hazardous materials. Better than 90% of the officers that I worked with were wonderful men and women and took their jobs seriously, Were and are there bad apples in the CHP? Yes, there were and are, but the Dept is working on removing these people from their ranks as soon as they become aware of them.. It doesn't help when we have a President who is threatening to meet these looters and arsonists, etc with gunfire which is stupidity in my opinion... Hopefully, he won't be the President after the November election... I say this, even knowing that both of my sons and a number of my friends are trump supporters...
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Posted by saviour2012 on 06.02.2020, 01:20 AM: Husky I totally agree with you. But the culprit is the system. It makes me very angry when I saw other police officers not to do anything. Why? Because either they are in it or they are afraid of retaliation. And those other three officers were not arrested as well. And that has happened in lots and lots of cases where things are not as violent or deadly. To me even the race thing doesn't matter at all. America is hundred time or thousand times better when it comes to racial things than even hundred years ago. But Police is completely different, more and more they are becoming thugs which is great for politicians as they can use the Police. Like they do in my country. Police alone can turn a democracy into a dictatorship. It took only 8 years in my country. It is extremely sad.
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