Thursday, May 14, 2020

Have the police forfieted our support by acting like "Good Germans?'



Have you seen the repeated reports of local police acting like the Gestapo in enforcing the illegal decrees of various tin pot mayors and governors? The above video shows and egregious attack on a woman who was trying to get on the subway with her child and was stopped by the cops because she wasn't "wearing her mask correctly." From closing barbershops and salons in Michigan and Texas to sending in a SWAT team to close a restaurant, local police forces have been instruments of oppression. They have handed out tickets and threatened worshipers who were attending religious services in their cars because of the illegal edicts of power mad functionaries.

For many years I have heard people tell me not to worry about the cops. If the government wanted to do something against the Constitution they would not enforce it. Yes they will. They are doing it right now. From rounding up the Jews who want to have a funeral for their rabbi to beating down this woman with her child on the Subway they have eternally forfeited my support. I know they will come after our guns. Our churches. Our way of life. There are exceptions here and there but they are few and far between. It is time to rethink policing and police forces in America.

I just finished the Waco miniseries on Netflics. It can happen here. It is happening all around us. The center can not hold. We need a sea change in both our expectations and our attitudes. Or we are lost.

3 comments:

Amartel said...

Of course it depends on the cop but why should we the people be left guessing whether or not we've got a good cop or a bad cop? We pay for them, they shouldn't be tackling us to the ground for not wearing a mask properly or for going to the goddam beach. Same goes for all gov employees. Judges, for example. Immunity, including qualified immunity, for government officials, has got to go. If they're this involved in our lives and exercise this much power on a personal level, then we need to be able to hold them accountable when they make mistakes. They serve US, not the government.

ampersand said...

In other cop news, the sheriff's sergeant fired because he sat in a parked car during a 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School will get his job back along with back pay.
You can't even get rid of bad cops.

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

What the fuck is the problem with the NYPD? I remember when they turned their backs to de Blasio. Now they are carrying out his BS orders.