Before getting into the meat of this post, I want to start off by stating a fact: There is no “war on police” happening in America today. What is happening is a growing movement of people who want police accountability, profess a desire to reform the justice system so that we stop incarcerating people for the oxymoron of “victimless crimes,” and an end to the widespread thieving of the public without due process via a practice known as civil asset forfeiture.
I’ve covered these topics extensively over the years. Here are just a few examples:
The United States: 5% of the World’s Population, 25% of its Prisoners
Don’t Mess with Texas – Police Raid and Shutdown Lemonade Stand Run by 7 and 8-Year-Old Girls
Chart of the Day – America’s Prison Population Over the Past 100 Years
Denver Police Arrest “Jury Nullification” Activist for Passing Out Informational Pamphlets
The DEA Strikes Again – Agents Seize Man’s Life Savings Under Civil Asset Forfeiture Without Charges
Asset Forfeiture – How Cops Continue to Steal Americans’ Hard Earned Cash with Zero Repercussions
The public grievances listed earlier are reasonable demands which any civilized culture would insist upon. Nevertheless, many police departments across the country are taking these criticisms as part of some imagined “war on police” which simply doesn’t exist. Rather than showing even a sliver of introspection by looking inward at the mistakes policing has made in recent years, many officers are becoming defensive, combatant and have resorted to lies in order to dismiss the concerns of the public.
This is precisely what an Iraq war veteran witnessed recently while training at a police academy. He shared his story with the Daily Beast under the pseudonym Clayton Jenkins. Here are some excerpts:
The War on Cops is a grossly inaccurate response to recent police killings which are on track for another year that will rival the safest on record. Gunfire deaths by police officers are down 27 percent this year, according to the Officer Down memorial page, and police killings in general are at a 20-year low, given current numbers for 2015. Police deaths in Barack Obama’s presidency are lower than the past four administrations, going all the way back to Ronald Reagan’s presidency.
Not a single iota of evidence supports a War on Police, but it has become a battle cry among some in the academy.
Over 80 percent of police departments in the United States are facing issues with low recruitment numbers. As an Iraq War veteran I sought to solidify my chance of employment working in law enforcement by attending a local police academy. I enjoyed serving my country as military police and will do such now as a sworn police officer back home.
What are they telling us in a post-Michael Brown academy? The culture of police brutality is infrequently addressed, but what is continually mentioned is the notion that there is a War on Police.
“The Obama Administration and Eric Holder are undermining the police. We have officers dying left and right and he’s dicking off in Alaska,” says one of my instructors, referring to the president’s trip to Alaska last week.
I understand as a law enforcement professional—and as someone capable of fairly reading mountains of data—that the Drug War has been unfairly used as a tool of oppression against the black community. It is why the American public overall has shown they have less confidence in police in recent times.
But there is no War on Police. This Us vs. Them mentality still prevails even in fresh academy cadets. Perhaps some of these people will become future jackbooted, truncheon wielding oppressors. Or perhaps they will encounter the reality that betrays the fear they are taught.
Now watch the following recruitment video for the Portsmouth, Virginia police department...
Meanwhile, a Portsmouth officer was recently indicted after fatally shooting 18-year-old William Chapman after he was caught shoplifting.
This looks like a scene from Gaza, not the America we imagine.
Please tell me. Who has declared war on who?
things ARE A LOT DIFFERENT than when i was at the police Academy in 88'
Like Wearing Combat boots and everyone carrying a bushmaster M-4 in their ride...
No doubt. Walking a beat, real street crime.
Quentin Tarantino should direct the next recruitment video.
'PoPo Cop, the Woar on Everything'......
I used to respect the police. That was the past. Many of them today are little more than thieves wearing uniforms.
I can already imagine the plot for Robocop 5: police protesting because their jobs are automated away, replacement DHS robocops smashing in their teeth, while the banksters steal their pensions. The audience will clap.
lol. That fucking recruitment video.
I fixed the dialogue of the commando scene.
I am Chumbawamba.
The only way the vid could have been more realistic is if they'd shot the suspect's dachshund before discovering they'd got the wrong address.
Thanks! Got a good laugh out of that, mainly because it's true!
I like the way they all stand in a line in front of the door before entry. One shot from the 50 gets the whole gang. ;-)
That would just result in more of the thugs coming to the door...with bigger weapons.
I got a kick out of that. In the infantry you're taught spacing - if you don't spread out, you can all be shot with one sweep of an automatic weapon. These morons were practically up each other's ass.
The police problem is not a matter of a few bad apples. It is policy straight from the top. Is the level of violence and militarization warranted in a country where violence against police and violence in general has been dropping for 20 years?
Throwing people into a cage for possession of the wrong kind of plant is evil.
What kind of person is happy to help enforce evil laws?
Evil laws = evil police... or, at the very least, amoral police.
It's insane to expect good people would wish to enfoce bad laws.
but but but....they are just doing their jawbz /sarc.
The cops are just the pointy end of politics. To them, and all other Statists, EVERYBODY is a potential enemy.
You forgot to have the pig ask if there are any freshly baked yummy and delicious Dunkin Donuts jelly donuts in the house. Suspect: "yes sir you fucking pig, sir".
The police in America have already been cast as the brown shirts in the upcoming passion play "The Last Best Hope."
Auditions began over a year ago in Ferguson, Mo.
You must have been watching reruns of DWTS.
Police brutality is what happens when you cap IQ quotas for new hires, and train their chiefs in foreign countries in crowd suppression.
Go back and read some history up to the 1930's. Being a cop was a no-nonsense profession. The bad guys often shot back to actually kill you. It was far easier to tell the good guys and bad guys apart. I actually even respected the bad guys, more.
Now, when you have cops who pull you over for traffic revenue stops, when Chicago is the red light camera capital of the U.S., when you get choked to death for selling cigarettes on your own and the IRS loses a hard drive of evidence while you get a shake down...you lose respect.
I do not respect cops so much any more and if you saw me, I look like the straight-arrow, corporate, all American middle class guy.
Cops break virtually every single rule they enforce routinely. They are an arm of the State, not the citizen. They protect the State first, themselves second, their interests third and you...when there is nothing else to protect of higher priority.
If I were King of the United States, I would have mandatory federal prison time for any law enforcement caught 1) wearing combat boots, 2) wearing anything camouflage, black or remotely military looking, and 3) using any type of ex-military vehicle. There would be a federal law for 'impersonating a soldier or marine' that would apply to law enforcement, alphabet agencies and private security.
I know this goes against what the IDF taught them about intimidating and brutalizing civilians during their paid trips to Israel, but fuck that. Incidentally, I would also declare any such 'training' trips by LE to Israel to be a crime of high treason with a mandatory 10-year prison term and banishment from any form of LE employment in the U.S. for life.
I would not do that but I would have double and triple penalties for every law they break including capital punishment. When the "law" is only for civilians (a military term they use) or the little people then it is no longer law. It is just about force and whose side you are on.
When cops become fellow citizens, again they will begin to restore respect.
A mere flesh wound to freedom, surely. :-/
it all makes sense form DC's perspective-better a community conflict out there than the states conflicting wih DC
I attended the police academy in '84 and you're right, things have changed a lot. One thing that bugged me even back then was how many insturctors taught/endorsed the concept of "professional courtesy", basically that means you generally don't take enforcement action against other law enforcement officers. I made it a point to deprogram the many officers I supervised over the years regarding "professional courtesy" and teach them that everybody gets treated the same. That also meant that if they fucked up and were the subject of an enforcement action they took their lumps just like everyone else.
Mr Decon, we had a family friend that became a Texas DPS officer. When he was still a fairly young officer he stopped an extremely drunk driver. The man happened to be the county judge. He hauled him in. His supervisor told him he should not have done this. The supervisor sent someone after the judges car and quickly released him.
The judge went back by the officer and he stopped him again, and again he failed the sobriety test. He hauled him in again. The judge was charged with DUI.
Everyone learned do not mess with Mark, it does not matter who you are.
What is funny is he thought this was no big deal. It was his brother who told the story. He was just doing his job.
This is one of the most important books you will read:
https://archive.org/details/On_Killing
At one point Grossman is describing the actions of a group of individuals constituted as a death squad. When they enter a home they kill everything... including the dog and the goldfish. For one thing, as Grossman points out, the violent home invasion is the single most offensive and terrorizing act which can be perpetrated on an individual. The threat of the death squad is the most terroristic threat which can be placed against a community or polity. Furthur, it becomes clear that the militarized agencies in the US are, in fact, in many cases, being trained as, and operating as, essentially, death squads (hence the otherwise inexplicable pet shootings). No more destructive trend, destructive to the Republic, the Social Compact, Common Law, can be imagined.
This book is a wealth of important insights, I commend it to you all. It is housed on Internet Archive for free, I don't know whether Grossman is aware of that or approves it but if you think it is valuable then naturally you should purchase a copy:
http://www.amazon.com/On-Killing-Psychological-Learning-Society/dp/03160...
things ARE A LOT DIFFERENT than when i was at the police Academy in 88'
Was that the one where they all went down to Miami Beach?
Wish I had that gear in 1988. ..heck, even the boots! !
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Now that is funny. ...
The cops are putting themselves out of a job.
First, the terror threat in the US is being imported by your president.
Second, you're doing nothing about it.
Where the hell are the sheriffs?
Get ready to be used by foreign UN troops.
Then stand by while your wives and daughters are raped by Peacekeepers from Niger.
I know why the average cop IQ is 80.
Dumb as shit, but still smart enough for a pension.
Nothing is being "imported". Did you mean "created"?
Holy Islamville, South Carolina
Muslims of America
Pakistani terror base/criminal HQ in the USA.
Look it up, moron.
Bullshit. Put down the Pam Geller wankmag propaganda and get back to me when these people actually do something the fervid Zionuts of the internet imagine them capable of.
You are walking, talking dog food.
Chuck,
When your done felating Wolfowitz and the rest of the PNAC/AIPAC sycophants, go fuck yourself.
And you actually believe this tripe? Funny thing is, Chuck is anything but a booster for Jooos, Jews, Khazars, Tulmudic Satangougists or whatever you low caste, no class illiterates post like your brains are endless loops. BTW, I couldn't find your answer to my previously asked query at another story: Is your user id your Mother's maiden name?
No that would be whoever is on your bookmarks list, obviously.
Booogaboogabooga them Muslins have demselves a CITY where they gonna do that shuhria law to us o noez
ROFL. Cast back your mind. Did you care about "Islamville" before 9/11?
Useful idiot par excellence.
Its really strange that so many who will completely disparage the idea of a blue/red political paradigm yet will inevitably be full up the ass over the Islamic/Christian one.
Until we are willing to recognize that NONE of these people are on OUR side, the better off we all will be. To ignore the threat of Radical Islamists, is a stupid as to ignore the threats from all others. Why do so many find themselves defending Islamists who openly hope for our death? We should grasp the threat of ALL groups, religions and ideologies...and there are many. Instead we find ourselves arguing for one group and against another when they are ALL our enemies when they seek to trample our freedoms AND our lives.
I believe why so many defend Islamists is because they are relatively honest in their aspirations, whereas others are not so much. But it changes nothing about the nature of our threat. We are being played. It is no accident or simple "bleeding heart" that is bringing in massive numbers of Islamists. It is to create chaos similar to that which is being promoted between other races and religions. THEY know EXACTLY what they are doing.
Do you?
El Bean Faart? Your given CAIR name?
blah blah blah CAIR blah blah FAGS blah blah etc.
Your main causes: Islamophobia and feigned homophobia.
Like I said yesterday, get a hobby zioqueer.
Pathetic like so many of the lower range of normal intellect professing to have disccovered the hidden truth of life on Earth; it's the Jooos. $10 if you even have a job, it's a laughable embarassment for someone so cock (NOT a sexual reference Dummy) sure that you suffer from Dunning-Kruger.
I come to ZH to make fun of low caste, no class proles like yourself. It provides hours of cheap entertainment.
You can shove my caste up your wrinkled old ass. Anyone who'd come here for "entertainment" is surely that twisted and beyond.
I don't care what you are debating.
"I come to ZH to make fun of low caste, no class proles like yourself."
Pot meet kettle.
Flak is back... er, ah, I mean "falconflight"...
Largest terror base in America = 33 Liberty St, New York, NY 10045
Yes, they are being IMPORTED. Pick up a muslim country. BTW, you DO KNOW where all the visa holders came from that were involved in 9/11 don't you? Here, you want a visa Mohammad Abdul Obama? We hand them out like candy. Here's one for you and you and you and lets not forget you! Welcome to America and if you overstay your visa, NO PROBLEM, we'll make you a citizen.
So where did all of the "visa holders" come from? Muslimland? Or something?
Wherever you think they came from, you probably couldn't find it on a map before 9/11 either.
The MAJOTITY were from SAUDI ARABIA.
Was it 12, or 14?
NONE were from Iraq or Afghanistan, though. Funny thing, that...
I think the only "proof" of any kind of ID for any of the 9/11 terrorists was the one found in the rubble of WTC after the jet fuel burned hot enough to melt steel.
If you really don't get the idiocy of that then hell, IDK what to tell you.
Still, I think Muslims are incompatible with America. Still, I'd take a Muslim over a banker any day.
Of course, even FBI director Mueller admitted, since nine or more of the alleged "hijackers" were found alive immediately after 911, that the alleged "hijackers" were "likely members of identity theft."
One might take a look at Urban Moving Company, Mossad, some "art students," and some FBI arrests, too, including "dancing Israelis."
I'll take top of the pyramid for 2cents Alex.
Ostracised, sacked … and even arrested: the fate of whistleblowers at the UN | World news | The Guardian
Actually, I have more faith in County Sheriffs, on average than city cops. Most of them come from that area, know most everyone and act as fellow citizens and not as enforcers for the state.
It can break bad though. The old cliche' stories about corrupt southern sheriffs are not all myth.
Is that supposed to "on whom?"
One cop gets shot for roughly every 20 or 30 private citizens shot by the cops.
that is a teeter totter that is begging to be balanced.
and coincidently the police acadmies are begging for it with their propaganda.
and then with recruitment numbers down, where will replacements come from?
and how long will it be before a local citizen force takes over in each area.
and locks the USA(LLP) OUT.
:3
Well I for one am looking forward to some Police Asset Forfeiture, as soon as the grid starts to fail or be sabotaged. These pussies are nothing without their little walkie talkies linked to their daddies-in-command.
You know, nobody talks about the Third Amendement to the Constitution, in the Bill of Rights. That one reads:
"No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law."
Again with the weird use of commas that causes so much trouble to this day.
But commas aside, this business of Asset Forfeiture is getting into Third Amendment territory.
Man on the street; "What's the third amendment? What's an amendment?"
don't know if you're tongue in cheek or straight up, but the weird use of commas comment is embarrassing, for you. The commas are a grammatical signal for an explanation of the previous statement. People of course aren't knowledgeable or any care in the least of such 'arcane' matters, hence, everyone is an expert to the zenith of their knowledge. Hopefully, you understand the gist of the comment.
I apologize if you were being sarcastic. I suspect you were.
huh, what, say what, what did you mean?
Vocabulary score on the SAT at the mean there partner? It shows.
You forgot to change to your other i.d.
All respect acknowledged and granted. Thanks for that, by the way.
I was, as often is the case, both kidding and not. The 3rd is a little less weird in terms of commas than the 2nd. Still, we don't use commas the same way now. The 3rd should be at least 3 sentences. The second half of that run-on sentence of the 3rd Amendment is a mess. I'd argue with you (respectfully of course, as between two gentlemen who don't really give a fuck) about the punctuation there.
My point, as I know you took it, was to suggest that allowing the police to use civil forfeiture to fill out their budgets is very much akin to flat-out fucking stationing them in our houses.
BTW, am I the only one up-clicking "FalconFlight" for a very respectable discussion? That's too bad.
You're not very good at this pretending to be gay thing, are you? Because it's coming across loud and clear.
Nid, you've always been a dick. You want me to congratulate you for that, or what?
"Again with the weird use of commas that causes so much trouble to this day."
Commas are short pauses, semi-colons are longer pauses and full stops longer still. They help the flow of expression.
'n wut really make my ass sick when some peepses come on wif dis' woiship of d'LEO's...like dey ca' nevah do no hahm...an' if'n d'senareeo y'all d'scribe come 'bout, betcho' ass dey gon' come take d'gas outcho' cah too...fo' dey ca' run dey genaratah fo' d'longah time...
if'n d'togget be warin' d'bodee armah, use d'big scattah, aim fo' d'necks areas, and d'groins, and d'pitts, wheah all d'blood be at...
The Flaming Idiot rides again.
What will it take to remove your ignorant ass from this thread?
Lbean, the police don't enact laws of forfeiture, the progressives you vote for enact those laws. Dumb ass. If you hate the police so much, why don't you call your local progressive community activist the next time you need help? Forgive me for assuming that you don't live in a multicultural community that you have foisted upon me. Your perception doesn't accurately reflect my reality.
^^Another old boomer who has no idea what the world outside of his hovel has become.
I don't vote. I voted once, when I turned 18, for Ross Perot. And that was just for giggles.
Next?
Ah, the "they are just following orders so cut them some slack" excuse...
It is now legal for law enforcement in North Dakota to fly drones armed with everything from Tasers to tear gas thanks to a last-minute push by a pro-police lobbyist.
That's a fuck'n red state last I checked and they're the first to take this shit all the way. Nothing will change until people pull their head out of their ass and realize that the whole red vs blue = same team.
True enough. But the plice sighn up to use force against anyone to enforce any law no matter how tyrannical. They re not the only ones to be blamed but they do not escape blame for their actions.
Your "reality" is utter nonsense not observable where I live.
Man complicit in mass murder of millions of iraqis Blows Whistle On Shameless Propaganda Being Taught At Police Academies.
Once a door kicker always a door kicker.......
That is not what they went over to do, idiot. They were not rounding up the villagers with German Shepherds and barbed wire and sending them to gas chambers.
There are probably more rules on the use of force in war zones than your average city.
There is some stupid myth about how nice Arabs and Persians are to each other if you leave them alone.
Look, you can oppose the Middle Eastern interventions and I categorically do, but you cannot make it into some wholesale genocide. Well, actually you can, but it makes you an idiot.
It wasn't an intervention, it was an illegal attack war for anglozion, and hes is complicit.
I mainly responded because his veteran status is used as something positive here, as if it speaks well for him he was a murderer of women and children, gains him any credibility or authority to speak about anything.
In america and england they often worship military serf tools as something special, where they in fact are the worst of the worst sheep and traitors in society, that deserve the opposite, with the exception of guerillas and militia. It's rediculous people do not see this, they truely believe the governent veteran poppy bullshit thats exploiting them.
You are an idiot. If the American serf-soldier were a universal oppression you would see them occupying America like most armies of dictators. That is why the Arab armies, most African armies and others cannot fight worth a crap. They are used for civilian oppression and keeping the dictator for life in power, not any higher causes including national defense.
You believe the leftist, nihilist, moral equivalency bullshit. It must be depressing. You are incapable of anything other than being anti-anything. You have the special secret bullshit knowledge of the conspiracy theorist. Everything is opposite-ville.
If we are going to do Anglo-Zion glory, conquest or world domination we should definitely pick better targets. Taking Kuwait would be better than freeing it. Taking Saudi Arabia and Qatar would be much easier and more profitable. Venezuela is up for grabs as the leftis/t-geniuses once again bankrupt another viable country. I know, it is the Jew-Zionist-CIA-Mossad conspiracy that makes Venezuela suck eggs. Soon, we will take over with American serf-soldiers.
Have you ever met any real soldiers or do you sit in neo-fascist jerk-off chat rooms?
Anyone would think they were expecting IEDs and RPGs.
Morons. They keep acting like that and they may get them.
Imagine it's how Iraqis didn't give a squirt of piss about America until its troops starting kicking in their doors. Then, suddenly, insurgency seemed like a logical response...
The insurgency really kicked into high gear when the US started pulling false flags to stir up sectarianism, like blowing up ancient mosques and blaming it one faction or the other. There was no Sunni/Shia strife before the US invasion. Actually there is no Sunni/Shia strife anywhere except the places under the US/KSA thumb.
Now I'm sure that your real name is El Bean Faaart. Utter pack of lies so easily flushed for septic matter that it is.
Put down the Ziocaine. No one likes a pottymouth hasbarist. The whole point is to "explain", not tell fart jokes.
Mohammedan? I shit cleaner than you eat.
wtf is a "Mohammedan" you disease-brained scold? Am I having a 1950s debate with Bernard Lewis?
I thought you smelled old as fuck.
You make my point. ;) Good luck at the Welfare Office for your career placement.
I suspect what ails you is: Dunning-Kruger Effect. I dare you to look it up pussy. Don't know how old you are, but you sound like a Stephen Cobert-Daily Show simp.
You forgot the *projection alert* at the beginning of your comment, again.
I told you before to quit flirting with me.
You're really not very good at this are you?
Whoever is paying you should pay me to teach you how to do this properly, because you suck.
Allah is a pimp
Lbean, if you turn on the lights, the kikeroaches run and hide.
No idea who L Bean is or his political bent but he's right about Muslims. 99.9% of them just want to raise their kids and have a life. I live close to a large Muslim community and share jokes and ideas with them. The young girls, pretty and attractive without head gear, assure me they share none of the crazed ideas the fanatics shout out. Who is behind all the hate? It's the hate that created ISIS and their crazy brethren. They sure weren't around before the bombing began.
They had their doors kicked in by lots of people for lots of reasons for lots of years before we got there.
Saddam used to have people run into army barracks at night shouting "Saddam is dead!" Everyone who cheered was killed.
You might remember that the Shi'ites initially liked the idea of deposing Saddam until Bush, Sr. encouraged revolt and then did not help them...a sort of Iraqi Bay of Pigs.
They were not quite as excited on the second invasion.
I live in Minneapolis. A few decades ago, we had a Chief of Police named Tony Bouza. He was a Portuguese guy from New York City. His wife, Erica, used to be very active in anti-war causes. She was part of a group that used to protest at the Honeywell headquarters here, because they made timers for fragmentation bombs and stuff like that. Mrs. Bouza and her friends would bring donuts to share with the cops who would arrest them every Saturday.
Bouza earned the outright hatred of the cops here because he openly stated that there was a problem with "Thumpers," as he called them; cops who really enjoyed beating the shit out of people who annoyed them. Bouza also said that there were White Supremacist gang members in the police force, not just here in Minneapolis, but across the country. And he said that the militarization of the police was the worst thing that could happen to the police, and to America in general.
As for his personal politics, Bouza was an unapologetic Fascist. He believed in iron control by the State, from the top down, by force.
The truly remarkable thing I once heard him say was that all the violence of policing stemmed from their primary function of keeping the underclass down. He wasn't saying that shouldn't be their role; it was just remarkable to hear a Chief of Police acknowledging the fact.
Anywho, I know a racist skinhead who is a Minneapolis cop. I know a guy who came back from Iraq who got a police job with no further training, who when he gets drunk starts crying and talks about what he did to human beings in Iraq, to the laughter of his comrades.
Police work is safer than driving a cab or a truck, farming, mining, fishing, construction, and several other jobs, depending on how one quantifies safety.
I haven't had a negative encounter with the cops since I got past 30 years old. That's because I'm white and I look prosperous. When I was younger and looked like I worked a lot at low-paying jobs, I had different experiences with the cops. That tells me all I need to know. Dogs recognize their masters too.
And the subordination of the police to far-right politics in America should scare the shit out of everybody.
Bouza was a Spaniard, but otherwise, yes.
Really? For some reason I had it very specifically in my head that he was Portuguese. Or I wouldn't have mentioned it.
Oh, well. Not the first time I got something like that wrong. All those Iberian types are swarthy peoples anyway. Impetuous. They like knives.
Why should we be scared? We are white.
There's no lasting immunity in whiteness. Never has been; never will be. And by the time it's our turn to get ours, there are an awful lot of scores to be settled on our white asses. I wouldn't mind so much if I'd gotten mine upfront, but I'm not connected like that.
Bouza is definitely a Portuguese name. Similar to 'Souza', which is also Portuguese.
yup! when I was in my early 20s I once got randomly stopped WALKING home from a bar on new years eve! cop said I took off running when I saw him which was two lies for the price of one: I never ran nor did I even turn around, much less realize I was being followed by a cop (makes me wonder what would have happened had I ignored the "excuse me, sir" I assumed was a stranger)! now that I'm 45 (& yes, white) & drive a convertible lexus in an affulent suburb they're incredibly polite/professional & have let me off w/verbal warning when I was absolutely guilty. & like you realize this absoltely still is MY problem too (i.e. everyone's) even if I'm no longer a target demographic!
Funny how that works, isn't it. I'm glad you recognize it. An unfortunate number of us don't. Hey, I grew up the hard way; I'll take the privileges when they're offered to me. But I don't pretend I earned it somehow, or that it's fair or right on any level.
"Subordination to far right politics" Mpls police are led by a militant leftist lesbian now and then by a militant house husband bitch slapped by his leftist wife. Seriously pal, the whole damn metro is run by lying leftists, what are you smoking in Mpls?
"Led?" "Run?" You're confusing the media figurehead for the actual direction. Harteau (The current Minneapolis Chief of Police) is indeed a lesbian "Native American" woman. And she's no more the leader of the police force than I am, or maybe Prince is.
There are a few actual leftists in Minneapolis, but they're sitting in West Bank coffeeshops. They have no authority over everything. What you see is media-created puppets covering for the Minneapolis downtown corporate interests. It hasn't changed in at least 40 years. Lots of lovey-dovey Liberal talk, but when the chips are down the public money and power always flows into the same connected private pockets.
We're smoking the same corporatist bullshit schwag as everyone else in this debauched ruined nation of ours. Here, communitarian pious orthodoxy gets votes from Baby Boomer Unitarian types in Birkenstocks with wool socks for winter, Dont'cha know. Elsewhere, it might be anti-ghey non-sequiturs that turn out the local rubes on election day. Or the fantasy of making Mexicans build walls to keep themselves in.
Watch what they do in the end. Don't be fooled by the costumes.
Well, "right" and "left" get confused. National socialist fascists are not the far right. They are the far left. They are socialist-statist-collectivists. They are identical to Communists except that they allow some free markets.
The far right are actually anarchists (real ones) and libertarians. They have virtually no government. Neither on the far left would have a state police force like we have now. It wouldb be more like private security.
The Left for about a century has confused all terms, purposely, I think. They are not "liberal" in any classical meaning of the word. They are the exact opposite which are statists. The far right and far left are both supposed to be made up of socialists? Impossible.
The modern militarized police force is exactly what statists would make it to be. It is never for you. It is for those other bad guys. In the end, it will be for you. They will become the enforcers of the state, not the protectors of your life and property.
No: anarchists are very much anti-right and anti-left. They are very much neither of those 2 categories. And no, the fascists are right-right, as far right as right can ever go. Fascists aren't socialists either: they are distinct and can't be combined.
Not even close. Many of the anarchists you see in the news are also hard line socialists. That's why they show up at the G9 or G20 conferences. They use the other meaning of "anarchy" as a sort of mayhem in order to bring about another glorious socialist revolution. They use the same approximate tactics. Lately, they are rather inactive.
National SOCIALISTS cannot logically be far from Soviet SOCIALISTS. They are both statists and that is Leftist. You make no sense.
"When I was younger and looked like I worked a lot at low-paying jobs, I had different experiences with the cops. That tells me all I need to know. Dogs recognize their masters too"
That really is the core take-away message, here.
Looks like a scene from Waco, TX
minus the flamethrower.
Must not have had any kids that needed burning.........
Nero just fiddled. THIS GUY has the act perfected.
Tool school.
Just an ordinary day…
Are you kidding me? Lying in wait with your sniper rifle all camouflaged out covering your fellow soldiers from Mrs. Johnson’s compost heap is an ordinary day in suburbia USA? And this is celebrated in a recruitment piece?
The juxtaposition of a soldier in blue returning to his own home in the midst of the neighborhood he’s trained to view as a battlefield is laughable if it were not so obscene. I hope this conditioning of law enforcement agents is an anomaly, but I’m confident it’s not.
Sick.
Jmo.
It's more "Call of Duty" like that way. Get's kids interest. Kids want to think they get to play in the real life video game with all of the armaments and weapons upgrades they've unlocked on level 14.
What do you mean there is no L118A? I had one in COD, MW3?!
You mean the real world isn't anything like Seatown?
"Thin line between entertainment and war!"
Ahhh, I have actually had conversations like this before. Guys talking about what weapons they like and why, then I invariably ask, "where did you get to handle one of those?"...their reply is always "in COD". HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Guess that makes them equal to me in their eyes with my USMC infantry background? LOL!!!!!!
Simple...Americans love war. Everything has to be a war on something. War on terror, war on women, war on Christmas. That's why the rest of the world considers you fat, juvenile and dangerous. You're a country that can't politely disagree anymore. Civilised conflict resolution is impossible when everyone feels their either under siege, waging war or both.
It's funny cause most Americans don't know what war is.
Case in point, you felt the need to call your blog the Liberty Blitzkrieg blog. Not dissing your blog, you put out good stuff, just pointing that out.
And if you want something bad enough...eventually you'll get it.
They better study people like Sherman about war.
No, everything is "-gate" now. It started with Water-gate. Hell, underinflated footballs are "deflate-gate".
What?! Murrika luvs war? I don't believe you!
I live in Portsmouth and frankly it's a shithole, they could use more of those vechicles to tear down the slums. The cops are very fat, rarely do they come out of their cars and the city is full of bums and section 8 housing residents who sit around the 7-11's.
I live in Portsmouth and frankly it's a shithole, they could use more of those vechicles to tear down the slums. The cops are very fat, rarely do they come out of their cars and the city is full of bums and section 8 housing residents who sit around the 7-11's.
When the government says. "There's a war on drugs/poverty/terrorism/etc!", you can bet it's actually a war on you.
When the cops say, "There's a war on cops!", it means the government is about to start killing more of us in their War on You.
Buy more assault rifles just to make sure it plays out like that.
#blackriflesmatter
+1000. What a good post.
To make matters worse, many in law enforcement are juicers.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/12/hundreds_of_nj_police_firefigh....
America has seen a disturbing militarization of its civilian law enforcement. Paramilitary swat team raids were hardly heard of 30 years ago are now reoccuring daily in epidemic proportions.These increasingly frequent raids, 40,000 per year by one estimate, are needlessly subjecting nonviolent drug offenders, bystanders, and wrongly targeted civilians to the terror of having their homes invaded while they’re sleeping. And they have resulted in dozens of needless deaths and injuries, not only of drug offenders, but also of police officers, children, bystanders, and innocent suspects.
Military vehicles have overtaken patrol cars in police lots. Some local police stations look like an embarkation point in a war zone. In the last one I saw the police milling around these vehicles were teams of heavily armed paramilitary units dressed not as police officers but as soldiers. Each one was clad in battle armour, M4’s at the ready, with full armour plated vests and helmets. The flash back I had was like I was back in ‘nam….
Growing up in the late 50's-60's I recall that every human-animal interaction always resulted in the animals death. When I started snorkeling (as a kid) I stabbed every sea creature I saw and speared every fish. Until it made me sick to do so. Yes, my Dad fought in WW2 and real (American) men were expected to be killers. Maybe it's relevant. Maybe It's simply an individual trait. Maybe It's war.
Maybe you were needing a little help... You killed every creature, like a trail of dead animals behind you..
Did you set kittens on fire, too?
Back then, pets were not equal to humans and killing something dangerous or to eat was not immoral and anti-environment.
Bunch of Pansies:
Popo are Pansies
People posting here are Pansies.
Everyone are friggin Pansies.
My dad was a cop for 12 years, then worked for the State Dept training cops in S. Vietnam (seemed like a good idea at the time) and after returning to the States taught Public Administration (cop college) for 14 more years. I was an older teenager during the latter years.
At some point he must have saw the handwriting on the wall. One day he told me out of the blue "Stay away from cops".
That was 30 years ago. He knew some whacked head cases even then. And he knew they were taking over. It must be 100x worse now.
Of course there will always be good cops... but my dad the career cop says ...
Stay away from cops.
My dad was a cop for awhile, too when I was young. He does not even like cops so much, now. However, he is still excellent at talking his way out of tickets. He can BS and schmooze with the best of them.
The problem is Taxation without Representation.
If you are a worker, you don't really have representation in many cases unless you work for government some place, are a school teacher with a union, or have some other union.
And if you are a small business guy, maybe there are too many rules to hire employees, to expand, to seek government contracts, to compete with goods and services from overseas.
And if you don't have career experience, who represents you? The US Federal Reserve System?? No way. US Congress? No way.
THE FED represents TBTF Wall Street banks.
The US Congress represents big money interest groups and the Globalizing Chamber of Commerce who's agenda is to Crush US Wages and remove barriers to global employment and trade.
- This is why Union Movements eventually got worker rights in the 1960s
- This is why the Colonist hated to be ruled by Elites from Europe
Oh Sorry ma Lord!! Let me place my body in the puddle so you can sign the TPP, TTIP, TSA, TAA, and TISA paper work.
- To Bad we don't have Honest Brokers in DOJ, FBI, SEC, FINRA, FTC, GAO, CBO, FED, Treasury, OCC, FSOC, BCFP, CFTC, FDIC, FHFA, SIPC
As long as politicans are protected from thes types of treatment, police abuse will continue and likely grow more common. The police are 'doing their job.'
We have a lot of Support Our Police rallies in our area put on by citizens.
I looked in every newspaper and online event calendar I can find for our region and it's weird. I can't find one, single Support Innocent Civilians Killed and Maimed by Police event that has department sponsorship.
Where do you think I can find something like that?
Civil asset forfeiture is the new form of taxation in a bankrupt state.
Just another "revenue stream" necessary for "investing" in the our children's future.
It can also be seen as another way to keep the plebs from ever reaching (financial) escape velocity.
We plebs are supposed to only ever be living check-to-check, in debt and in arrears, but enterprising souls will sometimes find ways to break through, and when they do then it is open season for the elite parasites, who try to out-do each others in thinking up ways to get all that loot.
Civil asset forfeiture is but one of hundreds of other means at their disposal (ex: crooked courts, FR-banking, fees, monopolies, artificial illnesses, various other conspiracies, etc.)
I have a hard time deciding which ghoulish form gives me better nightmares - your Soviet sleep depravation dude, or the Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth...
You can thank the slavish worship of anything that donned a government uniform, post 09/11/2001, for what we have today. Including the ignorant, idiocracy cranks who gather to chant USA!! USA!! USA!! when false flags go off and APC units roam the streets with hair-trigger Seal team 6 wannabe's pointing their nice, multi-thousand $dollar .338 Lapua's at gramma's upstairs kitchen window...
love your stuff mike, but it's 'who has declared war on whoM'
just a pet peeve of mine.
everytime i hear paul mccartney singing 'live and let' die i cringe... "in this every changing world in which we live [in]' the second in is unnecessary and incorrect.
ok, back to work.
Fucking cops lie. Manufacture crime. Most are fat fucks. Bald headed motherfuckers.
They lie on the stand, lie, and turn things around, saying shit like "I'm not on trial" and asinine shit like that. Even the shyster lawyers know;
"They'll just lie" (when talking about a trial).
The public has been mollified by assholes like Dick Wolf, with his fucking "Law & Order" bullshit show. to believe cops have a heart.
Fuckin please...
Strict drug testing and steroid testing for cops would be a good thing!
Never gonna happen.
Use a weapon pee in the cup sure sounds like a good way to go.
Don't kid yourself -- they would fake the results. What you gonna do then call the cops?
Honestly it doesn't matter if you don't pay them.
Cut their budgets until they comply.
Let police try armed robbery for their entire budget. Let them try. They don't actually make their own guns, bullets or vests which means non-compliance cuts them off from all their bully-tools.