Posted on 11/20/2018 9:53:46 AM PST by Borges
I suspect the group that would most appreciate these ideas are the police, it keeps them out of the hood, out of danger and in neighborhoods that appreciate their work. And as usual, these ideas are for the masses, not the lunatic leftists who wrote them who would be the first to call the cops if some large, aggressive, protected class person came after them.
Seat belt law applies only on public roads
She was dumb
No, she was harassed and bullied by an absolute jerkwad undeserving of the trust and authority of his position.
That’s what happens when those who grew up when the police actually DID “serve and protect” meet up with the thugs with badges we have today.
76 year old woman bullied then robbed at gunpoint by a badge wearing thug, and you say “she was dumb”. Wow.
“That’s what happens when those who grew up when the police actually DID “serve and protect”-———”
And when was that?
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groupthink can’t be escaped. it’s even here on FR.
Small towns in the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s. Mayberry was definitely idealized but for many if not most, that’s close to how most communities were.
Now you can’t even have a beer on your front step without someone getting bent out of shape.
In retrospect many decades later, should have lawyered up and taken the blind old bastard for all I could get.
But back then, we did not think to sue at the drop of the hat.
Small towns,of course,but not so in most places-——they could be brutal back in the good old days.
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Don’t call the cops, shoot the bastard. Otherwise some damned liberal judge will just let him off.
I am a lifelong conservative, an ordained minister who has never been drunk much less drugged, and I want nothing to do with the police if I can help it.
I have had a few highly unpleasant encounters. I want no more.
RE: 4. Long ago, some wholesome Christian teenage acquaintances in the pre-cellphone era had a car breakdown on a mountain road after a late movie. A cop found them. They felt saved. He pushed their car to a side road with his cruiser, cited them for illegal parking, and left without contacting anyone for them.
The police are not our friends.
I grew up in a town known then as “little Detroit”.
The cops there could be nasty, but only to those that were constantly on the wrong side of the law.
They were tough but; they didn’t intimidate, threaten and bully senior citizens just because they could.
I count a number of retired cops in my circle of friends, and some of them have had this or that sort of “intimidation act” pulled on them by this “new breed”.
This is a recent development (the last 10-15 years), and it’s not good. We need trustworthy police, and they need the support of the community they choose to serve. Things could get very ugly very quickly otherwise. Remember the Battle of Athens Tennessee.
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