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Tuesday, May 06, 2025

Rolling Stone obtained body camera audio of officers talking before arresting students who were demonstrating to promote the rights of Palestinians. "We've been asking this question, but now what are they doing illegal?" one Texas Department of Public Safety officer asked.

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Human rights lawyer Maria Kari, a co-counsel on the case, calls the recording "chilling."

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-- Rolling Stone (@rollingstone.com) May 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM

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King Trump trumps the Law!

And Prince Abbott is his willing stooge.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-06 03:24 PM | Reply

"I was just following orders."

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tv3fGt9vls0/maxresdefault.jpg

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-06 03:30 PM | Reply

They were not thinking good thoughts about Trumpy in Trumplandia.

#3 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-06 03:33 PM | Reply

"We're going to do it so they won't get agitated," a fourth officer said."

Minority Report!

#4 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-05-06 03:36 PM | Reply

This is a big fall from grace for University of Texas.

I can't imagine any foreign student wanting to study in the United States, but certainly not one that treats students like this.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-06 03:37 PM | Reply

I can't imagine any foreign student wanting to study in the United States, but certainly not one that treats students like this.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-06 03:37 PM | Reply | Flag:
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I'm sure that most foreign students are not happy with these protesters and their anti-sematic view points. And I'm sure if their parents knew that they were spending their time protesting instead of studying they would be sent to the woodshed. That's why all these cowards cover their heads and wear masks.

#6 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-05-06 03:42 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

That's why all these cowards cover their heads and wear masks.

#6 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

Like the J/6 insurgents.

#7 | Posted by Zed at 2025-05-06 03:44 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 10

#6 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

People acting within the law should be left the hell alone.

That you disagree with this can only be explained by fascism.

#8 | Posted by Zed at 2025-05-06 03:46 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

I'm sure that most foreign students are not happy with these protesters and their anti-sematic view points.

And I am sure you don't have a clue what "most foreign students"think about anything.

Nor do you really care.

And what do you have against "sematic viewpoints" anyway.

Sematic
"Sematic" is an adjective relating to meaning or the study of meaning, often used in technical fields. It's derived from the Greek "s"ma" (sign) and the English suffix "-ic". While "sematic" has a specific meaning, it's less common than "semantics," which refers to the broader study of meaning.

BYW- Have I told you to GFY today?

Justin case.

GFY

#9 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-06 03:52 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"I'm sure that most foreign students are not happy with these protesters and their anti-sematic view points"

They're not ------- like you are.
They aren't scared of "view points."
They aren't scared of political protests.

Educated people understand the role of protest in healthy democracy.
People who aren't educated and don't support democracy can't understand, and want to keep it that way.

You do your level best to make sure you stay uninformed, when you post here.
You consciously choose to reject knowledge and engagement, like a ritual, every day.
I wonder if you know that about yourself.

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-06 04:21 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 6

#10 | Posted by snoofy

100% truth.

#11 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-05-06 04:32 PM | Reply

"Following orders ... "will not be an acceptable criminal defense. Didn't work at Nuremberg.

#12 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-05-06 04:58 PM | Reply

#12: Precisely. And yet here we are with these Texas brownshirts.

#13 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-06 05:01 PM | Reply

#12

"How Nazi's Defense of "Just Following Orders" Plays Out in the Mind

Modern-day Milgram experiment shows that people obeying commands feel less responsible for their actions"

www.scientificamerican.com

One of my psych profs in the 70's, the one with the long hair who told us acid experimenters that one day, in 30 or so years, it was going to crystalize in our brains... he ran a Milgram-ish experiment using a bucket of ice water rather than a gas chamber.

Which can be painful. But we were amazed to learn at what length others would go when they were told that someone above them was responsible.... we hadn't known about Milgram, of course.

#14 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-06 05:33 PM | Reply

rolling stone

the beacon of dishonesty in the leftist's " committee to elect democrats.
they're celebrating people who slaughtered thousands of women and children and an unknown number of Americans...in other words.....heroes of the left.

--stick to important stuff like being able to smoke weed ..legally...with your dope head buddies on 6th street.

#15 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-05-06 11:04 PM | Reply

"they're celebrating people who slaughtered thousands of women and children"

But... What are they doing that's illegal?

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-07 12:19 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

these protesters and their anti-sematic (sp) view points.

#6 | Posted by fishpaw

-Palestinians are semites.

#9 | Posted by donnerboy
a member of any of the peoples who speak or spoke a Semitic language, including in particular the Jews and Arabs

-semites write from right to left, that's all. Ironically, ashkenazi are not semites.

#17 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-07 12:46 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

us acid experimenters
#14 | Posted by Corky
LOL I knew it!

You know what's fun? Get home from work tired, eat a hit of acid and go to sleep on the couch. The first few moments when you wake up, before you remember what you did, are priceless.

#18 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-07 12:51 PM | Reply

semites write from right to left, that's all. Ironically, ashkenazi are not semites.

#17 | POSTED BY CHILIGORDO

So you meant semitics not sematics.

You never know with you morons what you are trying to destroy by today.

Just wanted to make sure you and the DOGE boys weren't going to try and change the meaning of "meaning". Yet.

#19 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-07 01:04 PM | Reply

That's why all these cowards cover their heads and wear masks.
#6 | POSTED BY FISHPAW
Like the J/6 insurgents.
#7 | Posted by Zed

Or ICE agents?

#20 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-05-07 01:13 PM | Reply

- But we were amazed to learn at what length others would go when they were told that someone above them was responsible....

In this case, Trump Loyalists will do not only what they are told to do, but whatever they think Trump will like them to do.

And when they are caught, they will merely claim they were obeying the wishes of Dear Leader.

Nazi Germany had a Cult Leader, who's voting base was also far right 'conservatives', and who's money came from Corporations.

History repeats itself.

#21 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-07 01:17 PM | Reply

You know what's fun? Get home from work tired, eat a hit of acid and go to sleep on the couch. The first few moments when you wake up, before you remember what you did, are priceless.

#18 | Posted by chiligordo

Finally an explanation for your posts.

#22 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-05-07 01:49 PM | Reply

^dude you're havin a flashback

#23 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-07 02:02 PM | Reply

#19 | Posted by donnie

The 'sp' means I found it like that. Most posters here are semi-literate at best. I often pick it up verbatim to help them learn.

#24 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-07 02:06 PM | Reply

^dude you're havin a flashback

was for corky. I like corky. He's cool.

#25 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-07 02:08 PM | Reply

I remember one trip- in the summer- me and three other squids left Vallejo in the afternoon, dosed before leaving. I was driving us to SF, we were going to the lanetarium to see their Pink Floyd laser show, which was brand-new tech back then in 'aught seventy-nine. The acid kicked in on the drive- I expected that, but I didn't expect the traffic to be so onerous, everyone packed tight and going either 70mph (which was fast for then) or zero. I thought my life was gonna end that day. Somehow we made it to the laneterium, it was packed motionless, people doubleparked on the curb. I parked in about three lanes from the curb, basically ditched the 1967 Toyota Corona there because trip and panic. I opened another pauli girl and took off walking through the traffic to the entrance of the lanetarium. My friend Rich, who was a bit older than the rest of us- Rich got my attention- "Hey" he said. "When we come out of here, the rest of these cars might be gone. They may disappear". "Whoa" I said. "That's deep, man!" Somehow we managed to buy our get inside. Suddenly I found my skinny arm painfully clamped in a death grip. It was a cop! He was upset about the pauli girl! He pointed to a nearby trashcan and told me to throw it away! "OK" I said, walked to the trashcan, finished my beer and threw the bottle in the can. I went back to my friends, and again, the surprise skinny arm clamp from behind! Cop was mad again, said some gibberish. I had bruises from his fingers on my skinny arm area the next day. The show was great, very trippy. About midnight we went outside, and there sat my 1967 Toyota Corona, basically in the middle of the road. The rest of the cars had disappeared, just like Les (Rich) had prophesied! We got back in and proceeded south on the coast highway, driving and striving and hugging the curves. About half moon bay we spotted a cool pillbox, it was two stories. We ditched the car and drifted to the pillbox, exploring and climbing on it. We all ended up on the roof of the bunker, and I remember the elevation differences from the roof we were standing on, the deck of the second story which protruded porchlike from under the roof, the ground outside the pillbox, the beach and it's waves about 90 feet down- all these surfaces I apprehended as simply color and texture variations on a plane. It's a wonder we didn't step off. Anyway we went back to the car and eventually made it back to Vallejo. I don't remember anything after the pillbox. The end.

#26 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-07 02:38 PM | Reply

&^)

One of our college friends in the early-mid 70's sold the best acid.... clear light, orange barrels, all kinds. He kept it in the freezer of his dorm room. One day he took what he thought was dose, but was actually about 4 doses stuck together.

He was tripping for most of a week, and then peaked. He was a very lib hippy type, so we were surprised, ok, somewhat surprised, that that week while extraordinarily stoned, he had gone to the Military Offices on campus and signed up.

Sweetheart of a person, Jim, sold great pot, too from Columbia and Mexico... but after that trippy week the moniker he got stuck for years; 'Air Force', was his new name. He loved it.

But we were multi-dimensional hippies, and a lot the time we dosed the free and convenient, plentiful bluish shrooms that lived under the cow paddies in the surrounding East Texas pastures. They made great tea! (Like living in a Roger Rabbit movie for several hours, and with few if any side effects) By graduation, the Peruvian transfer student supplied rock cocaine that we trimmed off with razor blades... before it was so popular in the 80s.

But I was a psych major; I have two degrees to show for it; so my drug usage was for research purposes.... ok, some of it was. But we were reading Castaneda along with traditional psych books, so it all werked out. Speaking of Castaneda, I did have an out of body experience back then, but I wasn't high, I was under a new deep relaxation technique (which is called Autogenic Relaxation these days and is very popular, even on YT) for an experiment my profs ran for a PhD thesis study.

I floated right out of the room, well, my seeing and feeling consciousness did, out the door, flying down two flights of stairs and out of the tower building we were using... into the bright warm spring sunshiny day that I knew awaited me... until I realizes what I was doing... and my consciousness reversed in big whoosh back they way I came and into my resting body.

We had learned to manipulate body temp and heart rate; we could make the needles move up or down, not by will, but by recalling the feeling we had the last time they moved; sort of like the 'zone' a 3 point shooter gets in. The experiment was part of the prof's clinic that dealt with Phantom Pain; where an amputee, say, has lost an arm, but their hands and fingers still hurt.

So, like I said, it was all for Science.

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I still use these breathing and muscle relaxation techniques after all these years.

#27 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-07 05:20 PM | Reply

Oh, and one last acid story...

I'm taking my Final Major test before graduation after a week of tests, so naturally a friend and I did some not brown at all acid, and went party and bar hopping around the little town. He had on a straw cowboy hat that he had filled with what we called lightening bugs (fireflies), and so he had a blinking hat on his head.

Another friend, a ---- (she called herself a ----) a big girl named Sug in cowboy clothes who was a terrific musician and played the venues in Dallas mostly; her best song may have been, "David Allen Cole is a Big ------", a parity of one of his songs.

Anyway, the day of the 300 question test, I had had plenty of time to peak, I s'posed. But when I put pen to paper to write my name, the pen sparked and I tasted the acid again. Looked at the first 4 questions, and I couldn't even make out what any of them were asking.

I blanked out, basically, and an hour or whatever later I kind of came to, test finished, turned it in and fled away freaked out. A few days later, the results showed that I missed the first 4 questions, but got all the rest right.

Weird, huh?

#28 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-07 05:22 PM | Reply

I may have told this story before.

I repaired an ALQ -126 electronics counter measures system on an F4 phantom while high on acid. This was a ECM system along with the ALQ45s that pilots relied on to keep from getting shot out of the sky. It basically detected radar scans and told you where they were coming from and made the aircraft look like it was many aircraft or somewhere else and the missiles could not lock into the real aircraft.

I wasn't supposed to be high but the acid had not worn off yet by the time I had to report to work.

We had been trying to fix this gear for weeks. No one could understand it. After I took one look at the block diagrams that day. It came to me almost instantly.

We had to resweep all the antennas as they apparently were not reading input correctly.

We found several bad antennas and or cabling and the system was operational before I left that day.

I wasn't brave enough to try it again tho as they were other side effects I did not like. Like thinking I was able to read everyone's minds and thinking everyone could tell how high I was.

#29 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-07 05:38 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

- to keep from getting shot out of the sky.

You had me there.... I was laughing already at that.

#30 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-07 06:23 PM | Reply

#27 | Posted by Corky

he had gone to the Military Offices on campus and signed up.

epic trip that! good story thanks.

#31 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-07 06:23 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#26 | Posted by chiligordo

Sounds like you're Goatman

#32 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-05-07 06:55 PM | Reply

#29 | Posted by donnerboy

One time someone sent me two hits by mail while I was at sea. My buddy and I had just started tripping good and were watching "The Devil's Rain" on the CCTV when the phone rang, it was for me- the goddamn line printer had stopped working, and they were printing paychecks. It was like 2AM. I went on down there and sent off some of the operators- a courtesy, you see, it was standard to cover each other like that, because I had different management than the ADP guys. I would give them time off, and they would reciprocate by not sending trouble calls when I was skating off somewhere.
But with paychecks on the line, and out at sea anyway, I had to get on it. These boys needed them checks, even at sea. Ain't no rest for the wicked! So it was only me and two DPs down there. They knew I was stoned, but not on what. It was all good, the great majority of everyone there was on something or other, or at least cool with it. They watched and laughed at me as I totally concentrated, silently except for talking to myself a little bit, on disassembling this hideous monster of a 20,000.00 state-of-the-art only-one-on-board chaintrain line printer capably of making 8 copies at once. I was able to figure out that she was shutting off for the ribbon feed sensor not sending it's assigned pulses, despite that I could see that plainly, the ribbon was moving. Ironically, this piece of Built In Test Equipment was causing the unnecessary failure. I laid out a shop rag and proceeded to disassemble the opto-electric mechanical mousetrap that was the sensor, laying each of the many tiny parts in order, listing to loud psychedelic and 70s rock music, really enjoying myself but at the same time thinking I was in tech trouble. Eventually I got tired of taking stuff apart, so I stopped. The DPs, beyond their amusement, watched curiously. I made thinking faces for a while, saying nothing to the DPs, then I started picking up the pieces and putting them back together, one at a time. What seemed like hours later, I ran out of parts. I felt like I had been through the desert on a horse with no name. I turned on the printer, and it came right up. It was a Devil's Rain pure *ucking miracle, but I hid my surprise. The DPs looked at me with awe. "*hit" they said. I went back upstairs and the movie was still playing. Me and Tom smoked some hash and finished the movie the end.

#33 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-07 06:56 PM | Reply

Sounds like you're Goatman

#32 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY

Not me, but I met The Goat Man when I was a kid-
Charles "Ches" McCartney (1901"1998), also known as the Goat Man, was an American itinerant wanderer who traveled up and down the eastern United States from 1930 to 1987 in a ramshackle wagon pulled by a team of goats.

#34 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-07 06:59 PM | Reply

I still use these breathing and muscle relaxation techniques after all these years.

#27 | Posted by Corky

Om Mani Padme Hum

#35 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-07 07:03 PM | Reply

I wish donnieboy could see my story but I think he has me plonked. :'(

#36 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-07 07:07 PM | Reply

You Can't Give Away What You Don't Have

www.youtube.com

#37 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-07 07:47 PM | Reply

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#38 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-07 08:21 PM | Reply

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