Posted on 10/24/2014 8:15:52 AM PDT by old school
That’s bad. I’m going to stock up my basement with Ramen noodles and spam and wait it out.
bump
You’ll need more variety though. :p
Who do you think I thought I was posting a picture of? Jimi Hendrix?
Your position is not reinforced with me. I happen to live in a place where the local police and particularly the county sheriff's office still make a great effort to serve and protect, to use the shopworn phrase.
I understand that this is not the situation in many, many places in the country, and I sympathize. Or, more accurately, I am sickened by police abuse, when it happens.
I posted a picture of Holder precisely because YOU said it wasn't hippies who were causing the problem. I think it IS, in large part. If one thinks the hippies are innocent, and the cops are guilty, then one is (so it seems to me) implying that the right-wing fascists are behind the violence...when to me it is probably a lot closer to the truth the the left-wing statists are the source of the jack-boot behavior.
In your message now you, like I, put the blame on the leftists and the police state they are fostering...well, if that is what you believe, then we don't disagree much. Believe me, I was sickened by what I saw in the streets and neighborhoods of Boston after the Marathon bombing...my lord, people cowering in homes, Boston's finest drawing a bead on any living or moving thing...sickening!
But I would impress upon you my first point again: cops are not the same everywhere. I respect and appreciate the law enforcement in my area (for the most part), and when I see someone saying 'cops are the enemy' (I know you didn't say that) it strikes my ears like someone saying all blacks are bad, or all whites, or all Scandinavians, whatever.
Look, as I say we probably don't disagree much. Sometimes I find myself wanted to stand up for cops just because my experience with them has been so positive.
“A good example is the rise in SWAT usage — is there something wrong with “old fashioned”/boring detective work? What about “waiting him out” tactics?
Oh, wait, that would end up undermining the “need” for military equipment and training. “
Yep. Over the line.
“Don’t like the police? Next time, try calling a hippie.”
At least a hippie won’t try to shoot me for being “non compliant”, or try to search my home or vehicle just because he is there, and, lastly, a hippie would actually show up!
Cops suck. Nothing but legal organized crime.
ROTFLMAO! Leave it to you!
When I was young, I could walk right up to a LEO and just talk. I knew a few personally, as they worked for the family businesses as security.
Now, I just can’t. Except for a retired LEO I know.
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