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Don’t be such a naive dope, Kurt. Even the mere existence of a “LEO community” is totally incompatible with freedom and liberty. The founders of this country would have been repulsed by the thought of living in a country with hundreds of thousands of “law enforcement officers.”
All good points - would only add the cowardly but very well-armed cops at Columbine - and we need to keep after the swine that framed LTG Flynn and pushed the false Russian collusion lie.
> When someone tells you to fly drones around scolding citizens, we expect you to say “No.” <
I’m far, far from being pro-police. But the author of this article is aiming at the wrong target. The orders he cites are silly, but they are at least marginally lawful. Police officers are not judges. They are expected to obey lawful orders.
The real culprits here are those politicians who are issuing the orders.
The author is going overboard on this one. Yeah, I understand that now - looking back - the Covid scare is declining and society is beginning to loosen up.
BUT if you are a cop (just like a soldier), and you decide to disobey orders to enforce the law, you’d better have a damn good reason. Because you might not just be fired, you yourself might be prosecuted. Furthermore, social distancing might be a misdemeanor, but what if the accused ignores you and keeps doing it? What if they refuse despite repeated warnings? All of a sudden it goes from cop trying to be a courteous to cop stuffing you in a squad car.
Let’s be frank. This whole Covid thing is new territory. Hopefully it will NOT become the new normal for handling emerging infectious diseases, but give the cops a break this first time around. 2020 is shaping up to make the 911 event of 2001 a tiptoe through the tulips.
Great article.
Fascism or Freedom? The People or the State? Life or Death? It’s a time for choosing, LEO’s.
A hint for you and everyone else - the police are not your friends and never were.
We need to eliminate unelected federal, state and local law enforcement. Elected county sheriffs seem to be the only sane ones left.
Dumb and corrupt cops have never had my support in the first place.
Lon Tomohisa Horiuchi
they lost my support years ago.....
We have seen a mountain of evidence built up over the past 50 years that the police in this country are not our friends. They have shown time and again, at every level, in every sort of agency, in all kinds of situations and circumstances too numerous to mention, that they will follow the orders given to them by every tinpot Marxocrat dictator of whatever stripe, knowingly incarcerating or outright murdering any and all citizens they and their corrupt political masters deem as miscreants. There is never any consideration for anything other than the continued issuance of their paychecks by their employer government agencies. If the people of this country are too dense to see all this and refuse to keep their mouths shut when confonted by an LEO and don’t avoid LEOs at every opportunity, then they have nobody but themselves to blame when they get kicked in the ass by an out-of-control cop.
Agreed.
When someone tells you to walk through a church parking lot taking down plate numbers, we expect you to say “No.”
The guys who might have,said no are long gone. Winnowed out by political correctness. PC invaded the ranks of police, military and workaday people decades ago and it’s intent to enforce obedience to command, which in the case of the public travels thru the ether, guarantees that the operator wI’ll do as expected.
Ask any postwar Soviet citizen about the voice from the ether.
As an example: To be a cop today you have to make believe things that patently have no truth about them are truth incarnate and cannot be denied. You have to accept lies, mouth lies, respect lies salute lies even if it cost you your life. The ONLY people who van survive in such an environment are the ones who tend obey the voice from the ether .
This lockdown seems to have a new obedience catch phrase or command every couple of weeks. “We’re all in this together, stay safe, flatten the curve, stay home, wear your mask. It is no coincidence that the person who told authority “No” was a hairstylist. You are far less likely to find such Badassness among the ranks of people who have willingly accepted marching to the commands of the voice from the ether.
To all those “just doing my job” cops out there. Stand down or there will come a day when you will be treated just like any other armed thug.
Um... Reread the last paragraph.
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When someone tells you to ride up on your horse and harass little old ladies relaxing in their lawn chairs on the beach, we expect you to say "No."
“As conservatives, we pride ourselves on our unwavering support of the Thin Blue Line”
Why?
Anyone who believes that cops won’t follow unconstitutional orders is a fool. The vast majority of them will.
L