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The Free Thought Project ^ | April 2, 2015

[TankerKC]

When did the cops start considering themselves an army?

The only similarity is that they wear uniforms.

But so do letter carriers.

[familyop]

"The only similarity is that they wear uniforms."

Today, I saw a news photo of a sheriff with the U.S. Army rank of general on his collar. During the '90s, while patrolling for a few months for a PD that turned out to be corrupt, I saw a chief wearing the U.S. Army rank of colonel.

With the state patrol paradigm of the '60s or before, I could understand the use of such rank for state patrol offices. State patrolmen were respectable and fit for the most part with fair initial training, and many of them had prior combat specialty military service. The old, real morality was important as the guiding influence behind laws. But that's about it. People were generally very different then from what we see now.

Television has been one of the main propaganda culprits, pushing incrementally for a few particular constituencies.

[familyop]

"I have to wonder how many of these commandos ever did any time in the military."

I saw quite a few prior enlisted combat specialty men pushed out during the '90s, up close and personal. Jealousy was part of it, and corruption was another.

There's a problem with all people in our society, though, and it shows even much more in non-police demographics. A few of us said that without moral conservatism, there would be no fiscal conservatism. We don't see real conservatism at all in politics, business or academia today.