“What on earth do you think law men are for? “
Mostly we have them of necessity because of those among us who are not self-regulating enough to respect others and not harm others.
No, wrong. We have them because as long as man draws breath and strives to live in a civilized fashion, there will be bad people who victimize innocents. A law man finds those who break the law.
A policeman is supposed to be a protector of the civilians to whom he is a servant. His job is to catch bad guys who victimize innocents by way of robbery, assault, kidnapping, extortion, etc. THAT is why we have policemen. A law man's job is to enforce laws against victimizing innocent people.
A soldier's job is to go against an enemy. That enemy is usually identified by insignia and certainly in the soldier's world, everything has to do with rank and insignia and patches.
There were zero law men at Waco. There were policemen pretending to be soldiers. Either that, or the "gang experts" identifying the dangerous criminal elements at Waco are wildly inept if the vast majority of criminals on whom they are so expertly informed, have never even been arrested before, let alone convicted of a crime? Aren't law men supposed to catch at least a lot of regular/pro assaulters, robbers, murderers, kidnappers, human traffickers and extortionists just for doing those things?
You want to give law men the "right" to assume those things by way of insignia?
Stop confusing military structure with lawmen doing their work among free adults who have the right to fraternize with fat, sloppy, tattooed, beer-drinking tobacco-smoking bikers.