Something You're Going To Have To Get Used To

I've read some condemnations of the shooting of those 4 police because they were cops.

What the hell do you think the Threepers are talking about when they talk about their tripwires?

Shooting the neighbors?

If it comes to armed insurrection here in the USA, the police will be wearing the uniform of the enemy. Now, before it starts, is when a policeman should be deciding to take it off or begin vocally opposing the laws that are triggering the anger that the congresses are asking him to enforce.

Police organizations should be talking about constitutional issues and discussing strategies publicly for methods to not bother enforcing unconstitutional laws.

They need to establish themselves on our side of the line before the shooting starts, or be counted as part of the government we'd be trying to overthrow.

Just an example. Everyone's most hated police organization, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, is really just a police organization. They are just doing what Congress has told them they want them to do. It's a bit of a chicken and egg conundrum, but Congress could fix BATFE tomorrow. ATF has no real power over congress.

30th-Nov-2009 06:16 am (local) ravenclaw_eric

Way too many cops are loyal to "their brothers in blue" over the Constitution, or anything else. That's one of my reasons for being in favor of getting rid of professional police (except in specialized jobs, like CSI, where you need special training) in favor of everybody taking turns.

30th-Nov-2009 10:07 am (local) weerdbeard

Something tells me the punk who did the shooting was less concerned about the infringements of his liberties by the .gov and more concerned with the cops getting in the way of his infringements on others liberties. But that's just a wild guess.

That being said I think this factor is the #1 reason why the government is taking the slow-and-steady approach of removing fundamental rights.

If it ever came down to mass confiscation of firearms and massive domestic spying ect ect, it wouldn't take many liberty-minded shootings of police and soldiers before the ranks of the police and soldiers, who are just people like you and me, started thinking long and hard about what they're doing.

And the government knows it...so they work in ways where they WON'T get shot.

You'll note the high number of Threeper shootings (Defensive or otherwise)

30th-Nov-2009 06:38 pm (local) mcthag

I agree. It's just that I hit posts from people condemning the creep for targeting the cops because they are cops; and generally supporting the Threeper idea; which will also end up as shooting cops because they are cops.

30th-Nov-2009 12:57 pm (local) weerdbeard

http://weerdbeard.livejournal.com/593137.html

Yep not one of ours.

Looks like it was street trash freed by Huckabee. Knowing that creep's MO, the crook professed his love of Jesus to Mike, and Mike saw that as a good enough reason to let him go.