How about the medical workers we “revere”? The “educators” we “revere”? The pols we despise, but still keep electing back into office? The bureaucrats we’ve collectively hired and overpay? The media too many of us watch?
No surprise to me
Their jobs and their pensions.
Police are human, and are just as subject to being indoctrinated as much of the population. They have been told over and over again that these people fighting the government’s orders are evil, and they are trying to destroy the country. A lot of them buy into the brainwashing, I imagine.
Look at the people who are terrified of going out in a place where people aren’t wearing masks. They are brainwashed, most of them in a direction they are inclined to go anyway. There is absolutely no reasoning with them, because they are committed to that belief.
I live in a downstate Illinois metro area. Law enforcement here were able to get looting at the main shopping areas stopped relatively quickly during the Floyd riots. Kudos for the men in blue, green, and kakis in my area. Also there was no catch and release after the fact..
Then it starts to snow, but it's not cold. Cop casually explains its ashes from the hospital, on Tuesdays they burn cripples and other burdens on the state.
It's a creepy scene, how could a war veteran just become so numb to atrocities that they just go along and even just accept it as normal? But we know from history and from things going on right now that people do. As long as they are comfortable and their bellies are full they just go along. They go along until they aren't comfortable or their bellies aren't full. But of course then it's too late to do anything about it.
Patty can revere who she wants, do not think for an instant it is universal.
Once the voltage reached close to 100 volts, the man wired up would start yelping in pain. Yet a certain percentage of volunteers would continue right up to the max of 450 volts, a potentially lethal dosage.
The man wired up was part of the experiment and not really getting shocks. He was just an actor. But the experiment showed that we have people in our society who would obey orders from an "authority figure" even if it meant pain or death to others.
Interestingly, those volunteers who wanted to quit the experiment when they realized they were hurting another human being were harangued to continue and made to feel guilty if they quit. Only a few had the moral integrity to walk out of the experiment early on (all volunteers were made to believe the man was actually getting shocked).
The ones who went all the way to 450 volts are likely the personality types that the police forces are hiring these days. People who will just take orders unquestionably.
Police are suppose to follow that law... and that’s almost always a good thing. This situation does not come up to the Neuenberg standard...
If cops had been told to shoot and kill unarmed truck drivers I would assume 99% of them would have said, “No, not gonna do that” - and accepted the consequences...
The law that needs to be changed is the one dealing with the Emergencies Act of Canada:
“R.S.C., 1985, c. 22 (4th Supp.)- An Act to authorize the taking of special temporary measures to ensure safety...”
(https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/e-4.5/page-1.html)
Trudeau overstepped his authority because he’s an idiot who got into office by choosing the right father to be born to (born on third thinks he hit a triple)... So the Canadian Parliament needs to put restrictions on the law so some future fool can’t use it to punish citizens he hates... like working class citizens - or reward groups he likes like violent BLM and Antifa.
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