Posted on 03/28/2014 9:43:51 AM PDT by neverdem
“I [sic] give my left n** to bang down your door and come for your gun,” said the cop. This statement, made by Branford, Ct., police officer Joseph Peterson in a Facebook conversation earlier this month, created quite a news-cycle firestorm. Internet commenters from Sacramento to Saratoga struck a note of defiance and e-shouted the ancient words of Spartan King Leonidas, “Molon labe!” On the other side there’s Ct. governor Dannel Malloy (D), who said to a gun owner at a March 13 town-hall meeting that the anti-Second Amendment set won and “you lost.” But it occurs to me that in-your-face actions can go both ways.
Pondering this brings to mind yet another type of response to the (anti)Constitution State door-banger: from law-enforcement officers (LEOs) vowing not to enforce unconstitutional gun laws. One of them, a retired career detective responding to Officer Peterson’s statement that his job is only to enforce the law — and that he must do so no matter what form it takes — called Peterson a “fool” and wrote, “Part of the filtering process in criminal justice IS the police choosing whether or not to enforce a law at a particular point in time on a particular person.” This gets at an important point: the “good soldier” cop argument is bunk. No LEO tickets everyone driving 31 in a 30 zone, many laws are on the books but not enforced at all, and no moral cop would obey a command to round up all members of a certain ethnic group for extermination. Police use discretion all the time.
And, if our constitutional rights are to be secure, we need fewer Officer Petersons in the world and more, let’s say, Sheriff Joe Arpaios. We don’t need good-soldier cops — we need good-citizen cops.
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Naahhh, to get on you have to defend JBTs, getting banned is optional.
So how does he resist enforcing a law he believes to be unconstitutional, but has been endorsed by SCOTUS?
Subtle play on identity- and membership-identity psychomanipulation here.
Caesar once addressed his troops, when he was having trouble "handling" them, as "Citizens" not "Soldiers". It was deprecatory, and they got it, and it worked.
Lots of people think their membership in something raises them above and beyond the ordinary run of humanity. Manipulators use that like farmers use a harrow.
Great post!!!
OOPPSSS!I thought it was dumpcop
Sounds like a plan, Officer Peterson. I'll just make sure I shoot your “package” with 12 ga. rifled slugs or a .30-30 soft hose bullet and you'll get everything blown-off. Think of it as sexual reassignment surgery without anesthesia.
Well, that is just plain cool.
Sounds like loads of fun!
Saw a blurb yesterday that the Outrageous Acts of Science show on the Science Channel is having a segment on anvil firing this Saturday.
I’m just a Yankee RINO; the “good ole boys” won’t listen to me.
Your post was historic in scope and accurate in it’s delivery; if folks can’t see that, screw ‘em.
Ah. Y’all’s supposed to be doing very well there. What’s the problem?
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