Posted on 08/21/2014 4:52:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
No one really cares. The whole charade is needed to distract from various failures - Obama, Democrats, black culture. A big election is coming up and Democrats are losing.
P-Marlowe
Apparently the officer in the Michael Brown case was injured, this pair shot this guy within 45 seconds of arriving.
They are overbearing and trigger happy.
I am sick sick sick of “at least the officer went home to his family safe”, it is not about the officer, it is about the officer’s job to serve and protect the people he is hired to serve and protect. Instead some of them act like judge, jury and executioner with no authority to do so. Look, I used to read news stories about cops fighting bad guys, chasing bad guys, now they just shoot them. Thing is the guys they are shooting on a relative scale are less bad than some in our government and some who reside in marble elevatored offices.
I despise living in a police state. I hate it. It is wrong and it is not Constitutional. It is abuse of power by the executive and I am sick of it.
If he really didn't care, he'd have enough to last him for two days of not caring.
I quit caring about what he had to say when he told Tea Partiers to "get over" Mississippi (Cochran).
Then leave.
Go to England where cops are as unarmed as the public.
Or find some other country where you are not in a "Police State". Good luck.
Apathy is alive and well and has been since the Clintoon Adminstration. Apathy is the reason we are in this fix in the first place.....
Anyone else catch the subtlety here?
I am going to stay here and resist the police state and try to get things closer to what they should be. The police are our servants, P-Marlowe.
Our government is out of control. The police state is part of the problem.
I care that the Rule of Law is being ignored by the Feds, the street bums and by media. How far we have fallen.
There is nothing more dangerous to a black man then another black man, but that doesn’t warrant marches or any lasting movement. Only when a white person is involved does it seem to matter to “community activists” and politicians. Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, etc., might as well not exist to them.
If they care so deeply about black people being killed why don’t they mention where black people are being shot and killed at a Third World rate? Again, because there’s no money or power in it. They’ve already got their support and votes, and those aren’t going anywhere, so they don’t have to even pay lip service to caring.
The progressive agenda of “you are your race first, American second” pays off in these situations. People having been inundated with the message that you should feel part of a “community” based on skin pigment makes it easy to manipulate them into believing “what happens to one, happens to all.” But only when someone with different skin pigment does it matter.
It’s sick, it’s sad, it’s racist, it’s progressive.
Wow... Thanks for that... You have pinned the best view I have read on the matter thus far....
I feel very much as you do...
There is ONE thing for sure.... Wilson WILL be prosecuted by the feds come hell or high water... They tried to nail Zimmerman with the "denying civil rights" crap but it was to big of a reach... But for a white cop...well, I,m sure he has enemies to spare...
The media has created and is fueling this “crisis”. If everyone quits watching, it will go away. These temper tantrums occur as predictably as the changing of the seasons.
Which is why I also roll my eyes and shake my head every time I see one of these “Stop the violence!” marches.
This piece has some good points.
This case, princess Diana, Robin Williams, etc. Who gives a $hit. Our military people? That is a different story. I don’t know them but I care about them.
Thats the correct perspective.
I don't know where you live, but the police never bother me.
As for your claim that cops are trigger happy, when I was growing up, they could shoot you in the back if you ran from them. That didn't change until 1985.
Now that the cops basically can't shoot anyone unless they are first shot at, it seems reasonable to me that they should be equipped with the best defensive gear possible and much of that gear looks like something the military would use, helmets, shields, body armor...
Just tell me, how many times in the last 5 years have you been hassled by the police or otherwise subjected to a violation of your Constitutional rights (not counting the TSA lines at the airport)?
BTW, when you say you are going to "resist the police state" does that mean you are supporting they lynch mob in Ferguson? Are you one of the "We are Michael Brown" crowd?
the police bother the teens that live around here, in fact, I have been on the phone with the police chief about lightening up. They bother my clients. Some act like everybody is a bad guy. Some are unpleasant and overbearing and on steroids which make them have a nasty temper.
Some... bother...Some act.... Some are unpleasant...
Yeah, that certainly sounds like you live in Nazi Germany or Present day Mosul. You don't even know what a "police state" is.
You just HATE COPS!
I resent cops killing people’s dogs, punching women in the face on the highway, shooting trucks that have nothing to do with who they are looking for, shooting people at the drop of a hat
--John Donne
This is another way to look at it. There is an unrest in this country, and Ferguson is just a visible microcosm of that unrest. Many would say, myself included, certain leaders are looking to fan the flames of unrest. What if the flames of unrest in Ferguson, MO, spread to your community, to the place where you live? There will be all-out riots, and our law enforcement will be too weak in numbers to handle it all. If you're not prepared, you too will become a victim. It will be unpredictable. The "rule of law" will not exist in some places; it will become "rule by mob."
Do you think you might be spared because "you didn't care?"
What you are describing is not a rampant police state but a few sociopathic people who happen to be cops.
As I said you have no idea what a Police State is and it appears that you are just a knee jerk cop hater.
Now are you, or are you not, one of the "We are Mike Brown" crowd who wants to lynch Darren Wilson? Are you that far gone?
nope
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