“When given the orders to become jack booted thugs, the armed forces, reserves and state and local police will become jack booted thugs.”
Yep, during infantry training we were instructed how to kill mom and pop while they sleep and eat babies. Our instructors were Himmler eisengruppen and we pledged fealty to Hitler. All soldiers and Marines are Nazis. All sailors fly the skull and bones and are really pirates who while away the day burying treasure on islands.
In 1928 the average German would have said the same thing with the same sarcasm. In 1941 they rounded up Jews. In 1955 they all asked “how could we have let this happen?” And they lost their sense of sarcasm.
“Yep, during infantry training we were instructed how to kill mom and pop while they sleep and eat babies. Our instructors were Himmler eisengruppen and we pledged fealty to Hitler. All soldiers and Marines are Nazis. All sailors fly the skull and bones and are really pirates who while away the day burying treasure on islands.”
Ridiculing the complainant and not answering the concern.
BUT way back in 1995 my co-worker ,who was in the Ohio National Guard ,bragged about their training to “handle” protesters including using bayonets .
He asserted that he WOULD follow orders to bayonet sitting protesters.
Perhaps you missed seeing those law enforcement firearms training targets featuring pregnant women,women with children,old man in home,etc.
People will respond as they have been trained;that is why there IS training.
Training works. And the police are being trained to protect only themselves and the “rulers”.
Decades of “call 9-1-1” have conditioned Americans to think the police are needed for every situation, rather than the citizen taking prudent action.How else explain calls to 9-1-1 over Happy Meals and such? And look at the number of mentally ill shot down by police, or the people murdered in their own home by police raiding the wrong address?
The Founders rightfully feared a standing army,because in the best case it is a temptation for politicians to use as the hammer for every problem;and in the worst case the standing army is the tool used to oppress and terrorize the citizenry.
Even as far back as Rome they understood the dangers of the army under a charismatic leader turning on the people.
The current police view of all non-police as civilians as though police officers are something other than civilians is a very dangerous mindset.Allowing the police to feel too special is a threat to freedom of everyone. I have been stopped on my way home from work by state police who were young and very aggressive.The offenses were a headlight that had burned out literally moments before DURING the drive on one occasion,and license plate lights that had burned out unknown to me(how many people really think about checking those).I realize the officers hoped to make a DUI arrest or something;and finding just someone going home from second shift work was a let-down.The state officer in the license light stop refused to give a reason for the stop when demanding my license and a few minutes later returned with a printed violation .(computer printed right in his car,those are mobile offices).Not polite or friendly at all in either case. Today's police are just too confrontational. There has been a real shift in attitudes of police in America,and if it doesn't concern you, you are part of the problem.