Posted on 02/11/2009 11:57:25 AM PST by mnehring
Support your local police and keep them independent.
They have to have protection for when they try to take everyone’s guns...
At the rate things are going, they'll be able to buy a whole neighborhood for that much if they wait a couple of years.
If they are funded by local citizens (as police should be), they are dependent on them, and thus, their first priority is to them.. however, if they are funded by feds.... well, you get the point..
Looks like the cops wanna play soldier
That’s numero uno on the list...
Interesting. Here’s something I posted a couple weeks ago to a different thread:
In other words, I welcome enforcing laws against theft, assault, vandalism, murder, and so on. Who doesnt?
But the future is a police force that enforces laws against eating the wrong stuff, burning the wrong stuff (or too much of the accepted stuff), thinking the wrong thoughts about protected classes of people, gathering where you shouldnt and speaking out, owning the wrong kind of ammo, etc. etc.
Especially as an economy deteriorates, there will arise a divide between the haves (increasingly, those employed by the government, including police) and the have-nots (private sector, earning reduced wages if they can even stay employed). This will strengthen ties between the police and the politicians that feed them.
Kind of scary, if you ask me.
As far as arming our police, I think an excellent rule of thumb would be, any weapon the police can have, a law-abiding citizen can also own.
Want to give the police automatic weapons, armored cars, RPGs, and bazookas? Fine. Then a law-abiding citizen can also own these weapons for their own use.
No one wants to pay for public service; that’s the gummint’s job. Of course, these same people forget that gummint only has the money it steals from private citizens and companies.
Bingo! Laws no longer match the natural moral laws of God. They are fetters that benefit special interests or funnel cash to government for the same purpose.
Too late. The next town over got new toys from the Feds and the local guys will want them too. What’s worse, if they are denied the cool swat toys, they will instantly whine that the city doesn’t care about officer safety or some such crapola.
Of course the city is afraid of what their “loyal” police officers will do once they start grousing. Heck, it’s not like they would ever delay response because they feel like they’re underfunded (unloved?) right? Best case is the city will start losing “valuable veteran officers” to other municipalities and we just can’t have that can we? Locals lose either way if they don’t give the little piggies their toys.
It’s not like I’m saying anything that isn’t true. This is reason #1 for why I dislike cops.
I have insisted for some time that the idea of “funding for our first responders” was nothing more than a ploy to nationalize local law enforcement.
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For example, at Columbine the SWAT’ys deployed and then hung outside until everyone who eventually died did die.
No knock drug warrants don't count.
$1.25 million for landscaping?!?
The feds actually took over the LAPD for awhile, you know. It was called the “consent decree.”
Scary.
...of course the Imperial Storm Troopers are gearing up....they know that in the coming Civil War urban areas will be the centers of the fighting.
Better be some nice shrubs...
I remember Bill Clinton gave the LAPD full auto M-16 rifles and later also gave them ...Bayonets!
Watch this request for toys carefully. That travesty the 1968 Gun Control act became law when the lawmakers sweetened the pot for “crime conrol” with cash and toys.
The 1993 assault rifle ban got passed the same way with the promise of money and toys for “crime control”.
I am cursed with a long memory of stabs in the back by the anti-gunners.
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