“thefactor” hasn’t posted since he self-identified as a member of a large band of gleeful JBTs, handing out Disorderly Conducts like candy to everybody who pi$$es him off by refusing to grovel.
Or something like that. He didn’t deny it, so I applied the same level of scrutiny he (?) does on a daily basis.
1. It is considered good etiquette to ping a FReeper to a post in which you name him.
2. He and his colleagues ought not be surprised that when they treat an entire population as suspects, as potential enemies if you will, that population and other observers will begin to reciprocate.
3. All LEOs should remember— or be taught— that the powers of law, including the police power, are powers of government; that “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”; that it is impossible for the People to “take the law into their own hands”, as it never left their hands in the first place; that just as we have by common consent delegated these powers to various police agencies, so we may at any time rescind that delegation; that should the prevailing trends continue, this becomes more likely; and should they at that time resist, it will not go well for them; and finally, as they keep lists of “persons of interest” whose liberty they wish to curtail, so are lists being made of those at all levels of government who are suspected of violating their Constitutional obligations and overstepping the authority we have granted them. Persons on these lists would do well, when the day comes, to depart peaceably and without protest, and take up gardening or other useful work. At such a time, offering violence to the people will be met with a great deal of unpleasantness.