To: smoothsailing; sickoflibs
when local cops who write tickets dress up like Green Berets, their attitudes can change. As former Reagan Pentagon aide Lawrence Korb pithily states: Soldiers are trained to vaporize, not Mirandize. up is down, black is white...our troops are handcuffed with *rules of engagement* and forced to show restraint in the face of hardened bad guys on foreign battlefield, getting charged and ruined for protecting themselves, while domestically, barney in kevlar is shooting labradors and their owners at the wrong house and getting *paid admin leave* and promotions...
35 posted on
02/12/2013 4:46:59 AM PST by
Gilbo_3
(Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
To: Gilbo_3; smoothsailing
RE “
up is down, black is white...our troops are handcuffed with *rules of engagement* and forced to show restraint in the face of hardened bad guys on foreign battlefield, getting charged and ruined for protecting themselves, while domestically, barney in kevlar is shooting labradors and their owners at the wrong house and getting *paid admin leave* and promotions...” Post 9/11 man. These heavily armed troops are ‘keeping you safe’.
Bush era Republicans lectured us that patriots dont need no stinkin constitutional rights. Remember those envelopes with powder and the sniper?
Those big gubment Republicans never imagined that Dems would take power.
Keep complaining and the drone over your head will pay you a visit.
39 posted on
02/12/2013 4:56:08 AM PST by
sickoflibs
(Losing to Dems and Obama is not a principle! Its just losing.)
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