I neither defend or deny that Free Republic is a cop hating website.
It is what it is. This is a place where “cops are scum” is a common refrain and no one takes issue with that.
OTOH, McGruff is apparently pro-cop, and he is getting called out on that.
‘I neither defend or deny that Free Republic is a cop hating website.’
Now you’re lying.
Speaking for myself here, I grew up in California dealing with police and social workers breaking into the house at all hours of the night. They don't need warrants to do that. Then because the cops knew me and decided that since my mother was on meth so was I they would stop me and search me whenever they saw me.
Then I got married and we moved to Wyoming. The cops here are polite and courteous and they can be VERY helpful. For instance, when two armed California Franchise Tax Board agents showed up on our property in Wyoming to demand that we prove that we lived in Wyoming we called the Park County Sheriff's Department and they not only told the FTB guys to "f*** off" they told them that if they showed up on our property again we could shoot them as trespassers.
So am I a cop hater? No, I don't hate people who enforce the law. I do hate people who wear badges and who think they get to make up the law as they go along. They're just thugs with badges, an armed gang.
I'd like to think that Judge Dredd is just fictional but anymore it seems too many people with badges are bent on making Dredd look tame.
There's an old saying that a 'conservative is a liberal who got mugged' and I'm thinking you're just one false arrest or police beating away from seeing things the same way I do.