Say No to Cops?
Say No to Cops: A Brief
Case for Reduction
and Elimination
I am a police skeptic and a former Sheriff’s Deputy. I am increasingly ill at ease with the burgeoning police state, misbehavior of all levels of “law enforcement” and the willing complicity of united States subjects to an ocean of bad laws, both unconstitutional and foolish. What one could call willful submission to illegitimate authority. At every level of policing from local to FLEA (federal law enforcement agencies), the abuse gets exponentially worse with each passing decade and now the Wars on Drugs and Terror have literally loosened the restraints on any remaining (if tattered and threadbare) protections from police mischief. In the end, the robed government employees will, for the most part, excuse or rationalize the criminal or outrageous behavior of the thin blue line.
The increasing militarization of cops has worsened even more. Why do cops need to blouse military boots and wear the silly “high and tight” haircuts? I cannot watch an episode of “Cops” without an airsickness bag. Every show is a sordid chronicle of cops overreaching, overreacting and brutalizing people. If you start to think of cop behavior as occupation behavior, the parallels start to get even more eerie. David Kopel puts it succinctly:
“The militarization of law enforcement has created the equivalent of a standing army engaged against the American people – precisely what was feared by the Framers. The consequences have been just what the Framers expected from a standing army involved in domestic law enforcement (especially enforcement of laws against the possession of certain commodities): the erosion of the Bill of Rights, particularly the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches, and the deaths of innocent people.“
Cops or Soldiers?
January 28th, 2009 at 5:08 am
So, praytell, who is the dashing young “soldier” in the photo, hmm? The one with the blotted out face.
January 28th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Several faces are rather obscured in this photo. Undercover work would probably be the explanation for concealing faces in the photo.