Posted on 07/18/2016 7:31:35 AM PDT by Kaslin
The police were ambushed again in Baton Rouge on Sunday, three dead and three seriously wounded. A dozen cops were ambushed in Dallas on 7 July, five of those died.
Police nationwide are literally in the crosshairs. Baton Rouge is just the latest killing field. What’s happening here?
Cops are often called many things, but for most folks they’re peace officers or lawmen. They are, indeed, the thin blue line between us and the worst among us.
Somehow that paradigm has been turned on its head. Punks, thugs, and religious cults are now portrayed as victims whilst cops have become the bad guys. Even the last Super Bowl featured a twerking, faux blond, rap mannequin attacking cops.
We might start with culture, the Beltway culture of racial parsing, where crime is rationalized by skin tone. Take the other day when the president ran off a string of irrelevant statistics about the likelihood of black Americans being stopped or searched by cops. The reasoning here is astounding! Are we to believe that fewer traffic stops in high crime favelas would mean fewer confrontations, fewer misdemeanors, or fewer felonies?
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That said rank/file patrol offciers are notoriously bad shots.
They need to become excellent shots. Their lives and the lives of the public depend on it. The problem with a SWAT team is the time it takes to get to the homicidal moron they have to deal with.
Yes they do, but getting/keeping them there would consume huge amts of tax dollars. Even so the police cant and arent eveywhere. The original idea was for We the People to be generally armed to aid the govt. Its the other way round these days and not working at all well.
“Cops are indeed the new centurions, all that stands between us and the abyss”
I absolutely detest that statement as it claims we the people are savages and that only the cops keep us peaceful.
Its obvious the MSM, Soros and the Blight House have been trying to fire up a race war. Time to hold these sh#ta$$es accountable.
"...I want everyone to respect authority, but law-abiding citizens should not have to fear the police..."
BTW the father of a classmate of mine was a police officer. I don't know if it was her father who visited or another. The population of my hometown was only 3000. Today it's 6000
“I understand your sentiments, but at this point in time, there definitely something going on here. Whether or not it is coordinated, Obama blaming the victims is not helping. “
The goings on I see is Soros, obama’s handlers, and other foreigners and domestics attacking the US. They may be attacking cops, but that is the authority figure for now. They’ll attack us once the cops are weakened. Cops need to stop being so damned blue collar liberal and start defending themselves and America.
See my post# 27
I actually kind of liked that statement. I don’t think it says that we are all savages, but there ARE savages among us. Look at what happened in San Jose when the cops stood down. They were hardly centurions that day and there WERE savages, as you could plainly see. It was not us.
The primary role that people see in their interactions with police is more that of tax collector, not a ‘peace officer’. No one likes tax collectors.
Tune in at 11 to see footage of the riot that is ongoing...
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