Posted on 07/10/2013 10:59:53 PM PDT by Altariel
A COP REMEMBERS
Betty Taylor still remembers the night it all hit her.
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Taylor made her way inside to see them. When she opened the door, the 8-year-old girl assumed a defense posture, putting herself between Taylor and her little brother. She looked at Taylor and said, half fearful, half angry, “What are you going to do to us?”
Taylor was shattered. “Here I come in with all my SWAT gear on, dressed in armor from head to toe, and this little girl looks up at me, and her only thought is to defend her little brother. I thought, ‘How can we be the good guys when we come into the house looking like this, screaming and pointing guns at the people they love? How can we be the good guys when a little girl looks up at me and wants to fight me? And for what? What were we accomplishing with all of this? Absolutely nothing.’ ”
(Excerpt) Read more at abajournal.com ...
why? here’s why:
freedom from war, state dept pub 7277. turn hard military assets more and more under globalist groups’ control, increase internal security forces to deal with internal national problems. the caveat is no internal security forcewill be strong enough to defeat the world army, which will have the huge military assets and the nukes under their control.
Stupidity ... we know where they live (at least in my Town)
TT
First they came for the boozers.
But the boozers fought back. So they went after everybody else.
We the people were just so happy to have our booze back we didn't complain. Prohibitions red headed step child is just about a full grown monster now. Ya gotta have the Japanese Army to save Tokyo from Godzilla.
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts
What use to be the “good old boy” local town policeman has morphed into a jack booted thug.
It was quite obvious even ten years ago, before I left the country for good.
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because once upon a time in America, people went into public service to actually serve their fellow man at the expense of their personal fortunes and aggrandizement.
and the citizens who saw them do it respected them highly for their sacrifice.
once upon a time in America, most police officers understood and lived the verse “blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.”
all that is now turned on it’s head, with the consequences as stated.
***** “What use to be the “good old boy” local town policeman has morphed into a jack booted thug.” *****
Some are Thugs, but ALL of them are “Revenue Enhancement Agents” and sometimes that even worse.
TT
Not that it means all that much, but those specific targets have been pulled.
http://reason.com/blog/2013/02/25/law-enforcement-targets-inc-discontinues
Lawlessness abounds and Hollywood has a very large share in this negative process where it has become cool to hold off the police, either dressed like Batman or a SWAT team member.
People are acting out their sick and twisted Super Hero comic role fantasies.
Every “Action” film has a car flipping over and exploding while it shows a handsome guy or a foxy chick gripping a pistol as they kick in a door or peer around a corner, it's just so cool and society imitates life or if you can call popular entertainment, life.
Now, just what the hell did you just say?
Remember Obama’s armed “civilian force” just as armed as the US Forces? His so called “brown-shirts”? They’re here..
“Because when you get into that mentality, there are no innocent people. There’s us and there’s the enemy. Children and dogs are always the easiest casualties.”
So they say.
One of the comments after the article (by a Roger J) is so “spot-on” I have to repeat it here. I often talk about Competitive Strategies and this the prime example of how it is done:
Osama bin Laden is the supreme victor of the War on Terror. Yes, he is dead, along with many of his associates, but he triumphed over the US and its often reluctant allies. bin Laden did something that Hitler, Stalin, Tojo and many others were unable to do: he convinced the US Government to destroy American civil liberties, with the concurrence of both major political parties. The violent SWAT raids on nonviolent suspects, the massive electronic surveillance, the drones, all are evidence of bin Laden’s victory, which reportedly cost just $250K. God save America from its government, which is hell-bent on destroying it.
Time was when most American cops were World War II combat vets, and had seen enough strife for one lifetime.
The young guys coming up now are cherries and need to prove their chops to themselves and everyone else.
Interesting that they were requested by law enforcement to “minimize loss of life”.
“taken offline” does not mean “pulled”.
These products have been taken offline due to the opinions expressed by so many, including members of the law enforcement community.”
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Given the number of recent shootings of innocent men and women (see, for instance, the fort worth citizen who was shot checking out a disturbance in his garage in his pajamas), I’d say it’s self to say government employees are still using them (and likely purchasing them through private channels, unavailable to the general public).
If I see a rattler one minute, and don’t the next, I don’t assume that I no longer need to worry about its existence or its threat to my person.
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