[maine-iac7]

This whole thread is a bit frightening.

But it shows that though times, places and names change, people don’t.

I once read a little book titled: “Are We All Nazis?”

This gist was that every country, every civilization, every little town, has both decent people and people who would be the Gestapo over us if they could get away with it legally.

That hypothesis is not only borne out in the actions of this rogue cop and what appears to be an equally rogue police dept...which gives cops like this the freedom to ratchet up their power-trip = but from the posts in this thread, one can ferret out who, given the chance, would pull on the Jack Boots.

Chilling, especially in a conservative forum.

[tpaine]

This gist was that every country, every civilization, every little town, has both decent people and people who would be the Gestapo over us if they could get away with it legally.

That concept has been proved by:

The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment
Address:http://www.prisonexp.org/

-- from the posts in this thread, one can ferret out who, given the chance, would pull on the Jack Boots.
Chilling, especially in a conservative forum.

Lots of conservatives confuse being an authoritarian with supporting our constitutional republics principles.
Actually, those basic principles are about protecting individual liberty, -- not about bowing to majority rule.

[robertpaulsen]

"This gist was that every country, every civilization, every little town, has both decent people and people who would be the Gestapo over us if they could get away with it legally."

This was a high crime area. What would you have the cop do? Honor the kid's constitutional right to park on public property for no reason wherever and whenever he wants? Sure. He could have done that.

And if the kid pulled in there to take a little nap and then was assaulted, would you be joining the public chorus asking for the cop to be fired for allowing such a thing in a high crime area?

Or if the kid was found later to have assaulted someone else in that parking lot that night, and had a history of doing so, would you be demanding that the cop be fired for being so lazy as to not even demand an ID and a reason for being there?

Isn't monday-morning quarterbacking fun? People appear to be so SMART when doing so.

[tpaine]

--- from the posts in this thread, one can ferret out who, given the chance, would pull on the Jack Boots.

And after some sunday morning quarterbacking, its more evident than ever.

[zeugma]

I once read a little book titled: “Are We All Nazis?”

This gist was that every country, every civilization, every little town, has both decent people and people who would be the Gestapo over us if they could get away with it legally.

 

Not only that, but the number of people who would be "good Germans" and look the other way regardless of what is going on as long as they weren't being assaulted is astounding. People think that a Nazi-like police state couldn't happen in America. They are horribly wrong. All it takes is the right push to get the ball rolling.