[Above My Pay Grade]

Your analogy makes no sense.

The taper was not a victim of anything. He behaved like an idiot and if he had another officer, who didn’t remain extremely calm and who instead escalated the situation when given ample legal grounds to do so, he could have been shot to death and the shooting would have been 100% legally justified.

[papertyger]

Your analogy makes no sense. The taper was not a victim of anything.

WRONG! And that's the part you don't get. ANYTIME an agent of the government intrudes into your life, AS an agent of the government, without cause, you are a victim.

[Robert Teesdale]

Somebody needs to finally say it.

Cops are now hated, feared, and in many cases despised and loathed by a huge and growing cross section of America. I'm not even going to make noises about good cops or bad cops. When you are wearing a hostile uniform in a bitterly resentful country populated by angry armed citizens, you're going to have a lot of incidents of armed confrontation and inevitably both dead citizens and dead uniformed combatants.

I've never seen so many armed raids on the citizenry, so many ambushes of police, and such hatred before in my life. I've said before this is a low intensity conflict simply waiting for both a bloody flashpoint and a few Von Steuben of which, it ought to be noted, we have hundreds of thousands scattered through the population.

It's really all about who is in charge.

Historically, free Americans have always been happy to prove the answer to that question with a massively cheerful orgy of blood and violent murderous rebellion, punctuated by bad manners and much laughter. And success.

Well, the State always tends to get itchy and wants to have its majesty scratched. So it cycles. Have to say the next one will be interesting. And with that said, back to Sturgis, and a hunt for a couple of bike accessories. The conversations here are interesting this year.

~RT