I have seen a distinct tendency in our society for our fighting men in the Military and our Public Safety Personnel to be trashed at every opportunity.
Liberals usually do the former, libertines usually do the later.
They are both cut from the same cloth.
“I have seen a distinct tendency in our society for our fighting men in the Military and our Public Safety Personnel to be trashed at every opportunity.”
HA!
fighting force".
snicker.
Veritable Legionnaires. (Praetorians more likely, and late empire ones at that)
They are both cut from the same cloth.
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I take it you are blind , otherwise you could easily see that our military protects our rights and their detractors are the socialist despotic democrat types while our police forces attract detractors because their overreaching for a nanny-police state ala “Atlas Shrugged” does the opposite, they tear down our rights. Hardly “cut from the same cloth” those groups you speak of are exact mirror-images of each other.
I have been called a cop-hater many times on this board. I resent that cops are held to a different standard than citizens, and I believe SWAT teams are an extremely dangerous erosion of liberty when misused, which is most of the time in my opinion. Busting someone’s door down at 3AM with 20 hyped-up cops on adrenaline, so they can “transfer the risk to the suspect” and prevent an ounce of powder from being flushed down the toilet is abusive, stupid, dangerous, and often fatal to innocents, especially when the cops get the address wrong, which happens distressingly often.
However, when there is an active shooter, or a hostage situation - either of which places innocents in imminent danger - then and only then should SWAT teams be dispatched. In fact, that’s why SWAT teams were originally formed.
I have zero argument with a SWAT team going in after someone who credibly is threatening to shoot an innocent. More power to them - if only they could confine their use of that power to such circumstances.