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.

They were for it before they were against it

"In June of this year, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) introduced an amendment to halt the Pentagon's 1033 program, which distributes hundreds of millions of dollars of military-grade weapons and equipment to local police annually. The amendment overwhelmingly failed, and just seven out of 41 voting members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) supported it.

"That vote has drawn controversy in the wake of this summer's protests and grotesquely militarized police response in Ferguson, Mo. Ferguson's own congressman is Rep. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.); he is a member of the CBC, and he voted against demilitarizing police.

"Now, The New York Times reports that the CBC is campaigning on what happened in Ferguson to turn out African-American voters for 2014, an effort which would presumably be more difficult were the CBC's record on police militarization more widely known. - - Bonnie Kristian