I’m sorry Lurker. I respect your view, but strongly disagree.
Commerce is business. Business is to make money and employ people. Commerce is not a religion or a philosophy or a Social Cause where all concerned must sing from the same hymnal on the same pitch of intensity. NO.
Some companies do function that way, because they pay well and can get away with it. (Facebook, Google, Twitter, Amazon) But it’s wrong.
Chic Fil-A learned that bitter lesson. They are still popular, but from the moment their CEO made a statement considered controversial, they’ve been in a battle to remain lucrative. It may have been something to do with gay marriage.
“Battle to remain lucrative”??? Really? Chick Fil A is knocking the cover off the ball. Look up the stats. Its not even close. The whole “controversy” hurt them not one single bit.
“Commerce is business.”
Orderly commerce cannot exist without a stable framework of laws which apply equally to all irrespective of rank, position, or social status.
To establish that framework we form a government.
In return for that framework We The People have granted the government a limited power to the use of force to enforce the laws enacted by We The People. The framework, if you will.
But that power comes with the implicit understanding that it will be used ONLY for lawful purposes under the most extreme conditions.
That’s the bargain. That’s the glue that holds a society like ours together.
These ***holes violated that bargain. And that’s a pretty damned big deal. Those four jackasses just gave the Gibsmedat crowd an excuse to go out and destroy the businesses you think should keep quiet about this atrocity.
They undermined the entire system. It’ll take years to undo the damage these ****heads have caused.
And that’s bad for business. I’d sever ties with this PD, too. At least until they clean the psychos out of their ranks.
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