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What's Happening to Our Police?
The New American ^ | September 14, 2015 | by William F. Jasper and Alex Newman

Posted on 09/14/2015 1:25:47 PM PDT by detective

The federal government has been busy creating unconstitutional agencies co-opting policing while simultaneously using a “carrot and stick” approach — unconstitutional federal aid and federal mandates — to absorb and coerce the local police, transforming them into instruments of an emerging national police force.

This subversive transformation of America’s way of policing has been under way for a long time. The American ideal of local police — locally funded and locally controlled — whose job it is to protect the public against violent and fraudulent criminal elements that will always be found in every society, is being radically changed. Over the past decade, this process has accelerated dramatically, with every terrorist incident, riot, police shooting, or upsurge in criminal activity serving as an excuse to further nationalize.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: localpolice; obama; police; waroncops
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This is an excellent article describing how the Obama Administration is illegally usurping local authority and preparing to change our Republic into a totalitarian police state.
1 posted on 09/14/2015 1:25:48 PM PDT by detective
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To: detective

Day two of the Trump administration.

Something that has to happen right away, but not the first day.

All Obama E.O.s end on day one.


2 posted on 09/14/2015 1:27:41 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: detective

Thats my take too. Personally I think the administration is working hand in hand with the #blacklivesmatter crowd and is using them to create disturbaces everywhere they go to create huge distrust between the black people and law enforcement so O can say, “ well I have a solution. Lets get rid of the local police forces and just install a federal police force thats better equipped and reports to one central authority for better efficiency”.


3 posted on 09/14/2015 1:35:51 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: detective

“Fundamentally transforming America.”


4 posted on 09/14/2015 1:37:02 PM PDT by henkster (A person is smart. People are stupid.)
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To: detective

So who is this Alex Newman chick?


5 posted on 09/14/2015 1:37:11 PM PDT by humblegunner (NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
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To: detective

Trump Pen And Phone expressway.


6 posted on 09/14/2015 1:37:12 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: detective

obamalaw


7 posted on 09/14/2015 1:37:35 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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To: detective

Idiocracy is happening to our police.


8 posted on 09/14/2015 1:37:54 PM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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He has been doing the same with the military....basically, the first thing he did was promote Vice (remove sodomy and bestiality laws so evil, immoral people could not be removed and could be put in positions of power (Lesbian generals) and Christian, moral people, would be shut out).

Machiavelli stated that for any military or police force, Virtue promotion is essential. All immoral people (people capable of evil, degrading, dehumanizing behaviors) need to be removed. All fascist movements were led and founded by homosexuals (as are serial killers) (Lively, Hari).

Machiavelli stated, promoting vice is the easiest way to corrupt and destroy the military.

The requirements for entry are being destroyed, also, so felons and evil, immoral people can easily be put into the ranks. Any people with a Christian Worldview have been purged from the military. The easiest way to destroy morale and unity and create a system where good people leave is to promote vice, particularly homosexuality to destroy the male comaraderie and make males into sexual objects. The same thing with integrating women into a male dominate system-—it is to destroy effectiveness and unity and to divide (Marxism).


9 posted on 09/14/2015 1:39:09 PM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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Political philosopher Hannah Arendt talks about this in her essay “Totalitarianism.” Totalitarian governments reject the military, since militaries tend towards support of the country or the people and are therefore out of the control of the party. Police, on the other hand, are far easier to manipulate and use. It’s how Stalin, Mao, and Hitler all controlled their population, including the military.


10 posted on 09/14/2015 1:40:23 PM PDT by redpoll
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It isn’t just the Obama Administration! If you read the entire article, you will find that this has been going on almost since the end of WWII. The only difference is that with Obola, it’s now on steroids. And where are the Republicans? Probably in their offices “playing with themselves (those that have something left to play with).”
The other piece of this puzzle is the “unionization” of law enforcement. Now we have the UAW with legal weapons!


11 posted on 09/14/2015 1:42:26 PM PDT by vette6387
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Make no mistake, the #BlackLivesMatter crowd is a Team 0dingo-sanctioned army whose existence serves TO SHIELD HIM FROM IMPEACHMENT. Any moves to impeach 0dingo would pull the #blacklivesmatter hair trigger and that's the reason they exist. They are an army who instills fear in the masses and would act should anyone dare move to impeach the traitor.

Therefore, he continues his rampage upon America unabated.. Shielded by the BLM army.

12 posted on 09/14/2015 1:44:03 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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Where are the republicans? In on it also!


13 posted on 09/14/2015 1:44:27 PM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
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King Obama is a communists black Muslim terrorists. Are some of you doubters, like the communists Democrats, getting it yet. You have lost so much of your freedom that controlling the nations police will finish his dictatorship control of America. Why are they still so many doubters in America. We lost control when we lost a chance to stop or at least slow it down with Romney in 2012. These idiots are still at it. Must have Trump/Cruz as President and VP if it is not too late.
14 posted on 09/14/2015 1:45:31 PM PDT by Logical me
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This is an excellent article describing how the Obama Administration is illegally usurping local authority and preparing to change our Republic into a totalitarian police state.

Fundementally changing America...

15 posted on 09/14/2015 1:47:19 PM PDT by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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“Where are the republicans? In on it also!”

Exactly! If we don’t rid the GOP of 90% of the current “Republican” officeholders, nothing is going to change. For all his “unknowns,” Trump is the only one of the lot who has the ability to shine the light into the Congress and force the GOP “cockroaches” out into the light where we can see them and squash them!
I’d be for a law that forced all of them to wear NASCAR driving suits with their donors names and the amounts given on them!


16 posted on 09/14/2015 1:52:42 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: detective

There was a campaign years ago in which I played a part. It was “SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE”. Unfortunately, not enough folks gave a rats ass. Now HERE WE ARE!

First, the GOOD news: Though still disturbing, the number of police officers killed each year has fallen back to mid-1960s levels. Most of THOSE lamentable 60s deaths were the result of actions by criminals suspects or really bad people during law enforcement efforts at apprehensions.

Now, the BAD news: We are seeing something very, very different today. We are witnessing the random executions of cops by those who appear to have been animated by the unfortunate race-baiting and other efforts to disrupt our culture by certain members of the political class and the consequent break-down in the rule of law. This is Third World, banana republic stuff most Americans have traditionally rejected.

The drift away from the traditional, Constitutional American ethos that the duty of the police is to protect and serve and the ongoing militarization of the police is very disturbing to those who know and understand the tragedy that sort of activity has brought upon other nations. If not curtailed, the dangerous idea that the police and the decent, taxpaying, law-abiding citizens whose resources pay for that protection and service are somehow enemies will end very badly. There is a growing sense in some quarters that the “service” the police increasingly provide is the “protection”of the elitist oligarchs by controlling and suppressing those these elites consider an existential threat to their power and control.

Normal distribution curves tell us that every barrel of apples will contain x number of bad apples. You good officers who try only to do the best job you can and are NOT on some uniform, badge and pistol power trip enjoyed by some of your colleagues know who the abusive power trippers in your department are. It is in our interest – but especially in the interest of you good, dedicated officers who may some day become targets of random, unjustified assassination attempts – to identify and do what you can to get the abusive power-trippers out of your departments.

And it is incumbent on the managers of those departments to attempt to prevent those individuals from simply joining other departments by giving inquiring agencies honest evaluations of those dismissed officers. Let them take jobs where they do not carry a gun and badge and the authority of the state. Because the uniform makes you guys an easy target, you should think about that before you close ranks in that thinning blue line in a misguided effort to shield the abusive power-trippers.

I believe the increase in street and other common crime is a result of the real disrespect for law in the very highest levels of our system all the way up to state capitols, Pennsylvania Avenue, Capitol Hill and the very courts themselves. After years of it, some citizens, who may already be disposed to lawless acts finally say “What the hell, if they can get away with it, why shouldn’t I?”

One final note. Can anyone remember when the term “Police State” conjured a happy, warm, comforting feeling?

Neither can I! So let’s do all we can to stop before we get there.

PS: Before you attempt to peg me as a cop hater, the Best Man at my wedding many years ago was my Uncle Bob, a 30 year police officer/detective. And my only sister is married to a retired cop!


17 posted on 09/14/2015 1:54:49 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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What's Happening to Our Police?

""This is an excellent article describing how the Obama Administration is illegally usurping local authority and preparing to change our Republic into a totalitarian police state""

Article and # 9 .

18 posted on 09/14/2015 2:34:27 PM PDT by LucyT
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This is something that both Democrats and Republicans have contributed to. This is something that both Conservatives and Liberals have contributed to.

About the only people with no dirt on their hands are libertarians.

But then they've got dirty hands with regard to illegal immigration, NAFTA, etc.

19 posted on 09/14/2015 2:35:25 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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Federal carrot and stick mandates really got going under Nixon with federal speed limit laws.
One of the worst was under President Reagan - the minimum drinking age act. It pains me to say it, because I admire him and have studied his life, but it is true. Drinking in one state has nothing to do with any other state. It was a huge overreach.
I point this out because it didn’t start under Obama, and it won’t end unless we reject every attempt under every administration, without regard to the R or D next to their name.
It isn’t okay, no matter who does it, and we need to prod our Congress critters to stop writing laws with these provisions.


20 posted on 09/14/2015 2:50:26 PM PDT by mountainbunny (Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens ~ JR.R. Tolkien)
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