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That's a good question, one I have been asking myself for 10 years now.
When you find out, be sure to post it.
Maybe you can find out why the cops that have destroyed thousands and thousands of people, pets and homes for no good reason, over that same period have not "been punished" either.
If this is true, good. Take away every gun away from these low-IQ uniformed state thugs, and we'll all be a lot safer.
And that's the fact of the matter no matter what smoke has been blown up your ass by some talk radio dipshits and FOX News propagandist, badge-worshiping retards.
Don't let others get you down. Not naysayers, not pretenders, not appeasers, not opportunists; none of em.
What others do pales beside what YOU do.
Press on! - The r3VOLution continues...
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
~ C.Coolidge
Hmmm... even police departments disagree with the premise of the OP
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.2411921“There are times when military-style equipment is essential for public safety, but they are very rare," Burlington Police Chief Brandon del Pozo, a former NYPD Deputy Inspector, told Mychamplainvalley.com.
"Between our partners in the Vermont State Police and the Vermont National Guard, as well as the other federal and local agencies, we have the resources to handle all but the most inconceivable public safety scenarios."
Don't let others get you down. Not naysayers, not pretenders, not appeasers, not opportunists; none of em.
What others do pales beside what YOU do.
Press on! - The r3VOLution continues...
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
~ C.Coolidge
DISARM THE MOTHERFUCKERS
IN ORDER TO PROTECT AMERICANS ****ABOLISH GUN FREE ZONES********
Police Are More Dangerous To The Public Than Are Criminals
The American police perform no positive function. They pose a much larger threat to citizens than do the criminals who operate without a police badge. Americans would be safer if the police forces were abolished.
The police have been militarized and largely federalized by the Pentagon and the gestapo Homeland Security. The role of the federal government in equipping state and local police with military weapons, including tanks, and training in their use has essentially removed the police from state and local control. No matter how brutal any police officer, it is rare that any suffer more than a few months suspension, usually with full pay, while a report is concocted that clears them of any wrong doing.
In America today, police murder with impunity. All the psychopaths have to say is, “I thought his wallet was a gun,” or “we had to taser the unconscious guy we found lying on the ground, because he wouldn’t obey our commands to get up.”
There are innumerable cases of 240 pound cop psychopaths beating a 115 pound woman black and blue. Or handcuffing and carting off to jail 6 and 7 year old boys for having a dispute on the school playground."
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.DON'T TAX ME BRO!!!
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"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)
I find the story a bit hard to believe. We've been arming local police departments to the teeth over the past few decades with decommissioned military equipment. So suddenly he's gonna take all that away?
The Federal government gives this stuff away to keep local departments on a tight leash. You want the cool toys? You gotta enforce our laws.
T.S. Eliot's The Hollow Men
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." - Plato
We Are Running Out of Time - Mini Me
Originally Posted by Philhelm
LOL the OP sure picked the wrong place to drop this steaming pile of Bircher propaganda. Maybe it would have been better received if his fonts were bigger.
Disarming local authority makes it easier for Obama to tighten his iron fist of the federal government around the necks of the American People.
Have we forgotten Obama's promise to create his own Civilian National Security Force which he has been importing from Mexico, Central America, and now Syria?
I imagine most posters here recall the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989. But I suspect it is not common knowledge that a couple of divisions of the People’s Liberation Army were brought in from remote provinces to deal with the protestors because it was thought local divisions would not fire upon the protestors and could actually be supporters of the uprising.
Since Obama’s election the estimated number of Muslims acquiring permanent residency in the United States has jumped to about 100,000 a year, many of whom are from the war torn Mid East countries where one religious faction lives to kill the other. In addition we also have the tens of thousands invading our borders from Mexico and Central America.
JWK
Last edited by johnwk; 11-28-2015 at 10:00 AM.
Sure, it would make it easier *if* local PD or Sheriff offices had any inclination whatsoever to resist federal tyranny.
The method of operation for the past several decades has been to 'buy' the support of local law enforcement with cool gadgetry and firepower, in exchange for them carrying out unconstitutional federal policies with those toys. I just skeptical of the story, because I don't think Obama has any plans to reverse that trend. Why disarm local law enforcement departments when it is much more viable to usurp them and use them as extensions of the federal government?
T.S. Eliot's The Hollow Men
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." - Plato
We Are Running Out of Time - Mini Me
Originally Posted by Philhelm
HVAC's doppleganger.
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...ution%92s-plan!
You admit that there are scumbag cops.
You also think there are noble cops.
If they were really interested in protecting people, why do they even leave their locker room?
You say "grew up" so I assume at least a decade has passed since you saw this evidence. Was that not enough time to clean up the department?
FFS, dude, the entire third Reich rose and fell in a decade. And you expect us to believe that a bunch of people who are "trying to protect us" can't even broach the topic of their corrupt thug coworkers in a similar amount of time?
I pointed out when Freddie Gray was murdered that they have a term for what they did: it is called a 'nickel ride', named after amusement park rides that cost five cents. Amusement park rides haven't cost a nickel since the 40's. That means that they've had a specific name for that abuse for at least 70 years. It also means that they've been doing it frequently enough that about four generations of kids who grew up with three dollar rides to learn the old name for it.
No, sorry, but you lose the 'there are good cops' argument, and you lose it by a lot. The only place we have any actual evidence that thee is any such thing as an objectively good cop is in theaters and on TV.
Reality has a very different story to tell. Reality shows us that the idea youre trying to spread here is horse$#@!.
It is really easy to see if you spend some time dwelling on the fact that Andy Taylor is a character on a tv show. And frankly we are several years past the time when you should have come to this conclusion.
There are no crimes against people.
There are only crimes against the state.
And the state will never, ever choose to hold accountable its agents, because a thing can not commit a crime against itself.
I can't speak for other local PD or Sheriff Departments, but most of the rank and file Sheriff Deputies and families which my family know here in Pinellas County are very aware and concerned about our federal government's lust for power, and I do not believe they would turn on their neighbors should the federal government attempt an armed take over. Likewise, a number of vets who have returned from the middle east are also concerned about our federal government and tell me the vast majority of our military personal would not turn against the American People and are likewise concerned over this Administration's overreach.
What I am sure of is, we are living in very dangerous times with a number of threats to the vey fabric of our system of government, and I hope cool minds and wisdom prevails over knee-jerk reaction and "libertarian" extremism which amounts to anarchy!
JWK
The government you claim to want to protect has brought the country to the state it's in.
Why would you want to continue with what obviously hasn't been working?
When those kops you and your family know refuse to work for any federally funded entity then maybe they'd be worth giving a listen to until then they're just more federal whores paying lip-service to "The American Way of Life"...
People drawing checks from DC cannot be trusted to oppose DC.
I already pointed out a major "real life" situation where they did just that.
Your pals on the police force will follow orders when the time comes.
They will follow orders, ruthlessly, and with no regard for friendship, family standing, or position in town.
And you will be left standing there, disarmed and helpless, (or worse), wondering what the $#@! just happened.
Which "premise" is in error?
That you claim to want to protect the government that has brought us to the state we're in?
Or that you want to continue with what hasn't been working?
I can only respond to what you type..........
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- Kim KardashianIt's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
Donald Trump / Crenshaw 2024!!!!
My pronouns are he/him/his
- Kim KardashianIt's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
Donald Trump / Crenshaw 2024!!!!
My pronouns are he/him/his
We, as citizens, have to redefine our local police service to us. It has gone on too long with the police deciding what they will enforce and how as well as what weapons "they" chose to use against us.
The current situation makes as much sense as the lowest workers in a company deciding their job duties and priorities within the company with no regard for those paying them. Most of their duties would consist of making things harder on management and losing company revenue while increasing their own. Who needs them?
I guarantee revenue collecting activities like tickets would move from the top to the bottom. What really needs to happen is the citizens have to detach their local police departments completely from the federal and state governments.
State and federal resources should only be used when specifically asked for and local LE retains lead supervisory positions.
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