Please pardon me for engaging a couple of them. I am done, but I wanted some clarity as to what it is I object to in the way they choose to participate on these Waco threads.
No worries.
Just as they say a conservative is a liberal who got mugged I’m a police skeptic because I’ve dealt with police abuse first hand.
There are good cops, it’s true. Sadly, the good cops have a hard time finding their voice when the bad cops do what bad cops do and anymore I have come to expect the worst of police departments and some sheriff’s departments.
I also apply the same standards to the police as I do to anyone else and if it’s wrong for a citizen to do something then it’s wrong for a cop to do it, too.
There are some people who disagree with me and they’re entitled to their opinions.
Lately I stand with the FReeper who said,
“I do not support the police! I support the Constitution and so should they!”
All you can do is shake your head quit while you're ahead! {^)
Don-o, the cops sitting in their cars ... what were they doing there in the first place? With six marked cars on the scene, past which the motoring Bandidos rode on their way to the "shootout" that apparently "everyone" knew was coming, only moments before they "skinned those smokewagons" and went to town? Flat-footed cops at best. The result was the financial ruin of who knows how many decent Americans whose only crime was being there, dressed a legal way on a legal vehicle in a public place.
The first successful step had been made toward conditioning Americans to tolerate the criminalization of Harley riders in America. Police forces and media are together conditioning people to accept it, or at least they're trying to.
And one FReeper who is such a let-down ... says the story is becoming a non-story because "cooler heads" have prevailed. When America has FRiends like that ...