Posted on 02/19/2022 5:21:54 AM PST by MtnClimber
Too many cops are choosing the side that uses and abuses them.
believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. James Madison
Without a doubt, being a police officer is one of the most difficult and dangerous job on the planet. One has to admire those who take on the job. The American left has made its contempt of our police abundantly clear for several years now. Encouraging the BLM riots, excusing the damage done, decreeing no punishment for those who did billions of dollars in property destruction over the summer of 2020 was their coin of the realm. Lacking common sense and any skill at predicting the consequences of idiotic policies, they have doubled down on stupid as cities like NY, Chicago, DC, and LA rack up homicides committed by career criminals repeatedly let loose on an unsuspecting public.
On a daily basis innocent victims are attacked, injured or killed by violent perpetrators who have been released by cavalier lefty judges who have become self-appointed social justice warriors.
SNIP
So how do we explain the fact that in countries around the world, Australia, UK, US, France, Belgium, Austria, and Canada, the police, those who were not fired for refusing the vaccine, have taken the opportunity to act like tyranny’s handmaidens rather than protectors of the people, their essential charge, the reason they signed up for the job? In Canada, a few have sided with the truck drivers’ cause, but the rest seem to enjoy the opportunity to roust good, law-abiding, non-violent protesters.
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The contents of the law make no matter to those in power. All they have to do is overstep legal authority and see what happens - no consequence after the fact, worst that happens to Pierre is he's booted out of office.
Watching the wonderful RCMP attack, abuse and harm truck driver protesters in Ottawa was scary and a reality check.
From: 2 weeks to flatten the curve to this... Nazi acts of terrorism!
Royal Canadian Mounted Police trample peaceful protesters in Ottawa.
https://twitter.com/RealCamHigby/status/1494818251490185219
The unethical and criminal elements in police departments are foreign.
Not expected or normal.
Think intruder, imposter.
In other words, like a disease. You don’t surrender to it, you cure it.
Blanket scorn for the police is probably worse than blanket reverence.
No they aren’t. They are expected. They are normal. They are built into the very system. And it cannot be cured. Or if it can nobody in the recorded history of humanity has succeeded.
There’s a big gap between blanket scorn and blanket reverence. I’d say the correct stance towards police would be caution. Understanding that they are a necessary evil, and can do good, but any given police officer could be a scumbag, or could be enforcing bad laws. Like other cars on a two lane highway, pay attention, make sure they’re staying in their lane, and be prepared to deal when they don’t.
“I’d say the correct stance towards police would be caution. Understanding that they are a necessary evil, and can do good, but any given police officer could be a scumbag, or could be enforcing bad laws.”
This is quite reasonable.
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