New Orleans seems like a scary place to get arrested... [Archive]

Os Cangaceiros

24th June 2011, 03:44

Just look at the courthouse!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3074/3060017105_d6c7b5bee4.jpg

:scared:

Magón

24th June 2011, 03:58

:lol:

Spawn of Stalin

24th June 2011, 04:12

Well if you're going to go do down you might as well do it in style

xub3rn00dlex

24th June 2011, 04:58

I don't think it is in general NO that is a scary place to get arrested, just getting arrested in general is scary no? I'd be more terrified to get arrested in Texas or Arizona. Being in a cage scares the piss out of me man.

Os Cangaceiros

24th June 2011, 05:05

It was more of a reference to the fact that there's stone fasces embedded in the walls, with "LAW" and "ORDER" under each one.

I dunno, it just kind of came off a little fascist-y to me. I first saw it in the movie "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" and thought that the architecture was interesting.

Johnny Kerosene

24th June 2011, 05:08

I'm pretty sure Louisiana sentences more people to death every year than any other state, and usually gives long prison sentences for pretty much everything. Florida has the most people waiting to be executed though, which means that if you get sentenced to death in Louisiana you're probably fucked.

Buitraker

24th June 2011, 10:11

Thats its not New Oreleans, its Gotham city

Triple A

24th June 2011, 12:45

The fascist symbols in the courthouse:ohmy:

Manic Impressive

24th June 2011, 12:52

Thats its not New Oreleans, its Gotham city
that's what I was gonna say :lol:

thefinalmarch

24th June 2011, 14:42

It was more of a reference to the fact that there's stone fasces embedded in the walls, with "LAW" and "ORDER" under each one.
Take a look at your own congress:
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agnixie

25th June 2011, 01:55

The fascist symbols in the courthouse:ohmy:

Predate fascism by three thousand years and have been used in America since the 18th century.

praxis1966

25th June 2011, 02:00

Yeah, we had that conversation about Congress already when somebody found a fasces on a quarter or something....

I'm pretty sure Louisiana sentences more people to death every year than any other state, and usually gives long prison sentences for pretty much everything. Florida has the most people waiting to be executed though, which means that if you get sentenced to death in Louisiana you're probably fucked.

Yeah, but last I heard, Texas actually throws the switch on more people per year...

PhoenixAsh

25th June 2011, 02:21

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D4KugjImnII/RwQmae7ax1I/AAAAAAAAAE8/Gchy-RhJ-24/s320/fasces_US_congress.jpg
Take a look at your own congress:
upload.wikimedia.<delete this shit>org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Obama_Health_Care_Speech_to_Joint_Session_of_Congr ess.jpg

Tablo

25th June 2011, 02:36

Yeah, those symbols are all over the places and as said earlier in the thread, they predate fascism. How come fascists can't come up with original symbols?

Sperm-Doll Setsuna

25th June 2011, 04:12

Yeah, those symbols are all over the places and as said earlier in the thread, they predate fascism. How come fascists can't come up with original symbols?

They like looking backwards for inspiration.

Os Cangaceiros

25th June 2011, 06:35

They like looking backwards for inspiration.

they're certainly not the only ones who are guilty of that...:closedeyes:

Hebrew Hammer

25th June 2011, 06:42

The fascist symbols in the courthouse:ohmy:

Have you never been to DC? There is fasces all over the place. I think there is even a fasces on the dime.

Tablo

25th June 2011, 08:01

Honestly, when I read the OP I thought ES was talking about what it says at the top of the building. "This is a government of law - not of man"

Revy

25th June 2011, 08:26

The use of that symbol was used in America and many countries long before it was adopted as a fascist symbol by Mussolini. Despite its history, the symbol doesn't have the stigma attached to it that the swastika has. Some countries, such as Ecuador and Cameroon, even have the symbol on their national coat of arms. There are even two fasces on the Lincoln Memorial, under his hands, on the front of the seat's arms.

http://www.visitingdc.com/images/lincoln-memorial-address.jpg

Mindtoaster

25th June 2011, 08:37

New Orleans like the best place to get arrested unless you whip your dick out... Like the mardi gras stereotype...

Fuck the cops will kill your ass for that shit. Dumb ass toursists

take it from this drunk new orleanian

Buitraker

25th June 2011, 10:33

Mindtoaster

25th June 2011, 19:49

http://www.revleft.com/vb/customavatars/avatar16414_31.gif

http://i.imgur.com/3Jl13.png

Buitraker

26th June 2011, 00:58

http://i.imgur.com/3Jl13.png
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4013/4527531056_465f8e7bf8_o.jpg

PhoenixAsh

26th June 2011, 09:12

The fasces go back to pre-Roman times when they were quite litterally a bunch of sticks and an axe held together by leather straps.

They symbolise the power of authority over life and death (the axe) and the power to punish (the sticks).

If they are used by a government...then that is what it says.

o...and here is the coat of arms of Cuba.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Coat_of_Arms_of_Cuba.svg/533px-Coat_of_Arms_of_Cuba.svg.png