Ach, nein, vee vere just following orders, honorable tribunal!
Didn't work at Nuremberg, won't work here.
There are any number of thugs in uniform who take pleasure in abusing children. A brutal murderer with a badge killed a child at Ruby Ridge and his mother. A gang of them burned children alive at Waco. A band of thugs broke into the home of Elian Gonzalez in the dead of night, stuck an automatic rifle in his face, and dragged him off screaming into the night. Kids mean nothing to monsters like these. And neither does the life of Terri Schiavo.
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Yes, there are always a few bad apples in LE, but I get queasy when I hear people trash the police and LE quite as harshly as you did. The left consistently trashes the police, they are ALWAYS wrong in every case where they had to shoot someone, and they were always calling the police "the pigs", and disparaging them. I guess it shocks me coming from the right, though I understand and share your disgust at the pictures of children being cuffed. The policemen don't look very happy at doing it; I like to think if it were me, I would throw down my badge and quit; but we all don't have the same ethics barrier. Maybe they were afraid they couldn't support their families if they quit, or something.