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To: Moozle
There are unfortunately to many Sgt. Michael Dougherty ‘s in the ranks of the police. In 1969 while awaiting induction into the armed forces I worked as a substitute teacher. One day in an 8th grade history class the question of firearms ownership came up in relation the the American Revolution. One boy said that that was then today nobody but police officers should own guns.I had a little chat with him about the 2nd Amendment and the Framers intent was a good teaching opportunity. The boy said his father was a county officer and he got his views from dad. I told him to have his father read the Bill of Rights again if the question came up.

The next week i was working at the same school when as I was leaving I found my car blocked by a county police cruiser and a hefty police sergeant standing by. As soon as I identified myself he launched into a profanity laced tirade about me telling his son ‘a bunch of f-——g lies’. I asked him if he really understood that Americans were free men not subjects of government and the 2nd Amendment was put in the Constitution to assure that a tyrannical government would never come to power. This produced a bigger explosion of rage and a warning not to ‘f-—’ with his son again or there would be ‘bad things happen to me’ (a direct quote I can remember to this day). Sgt Friendly then got in his cruiser and drove off.

I did keep my hear, knew his name and remembered his badge and unit number and I carefully typed letters to the commander of the county police and my county supervisor describing the incident. No further direct consequences followed for me but on three occasions county police cars did mysteriously appear as I was leaving either home or work and obviously trailed me for a while.

After I had entered service a tersely worded letter from the Public Affairs office of the police arrived at my folks house ‘regretting’ any misunderstanding that I may have had and assuring me the officer was only speaking as a parent not in an official capacity.

That was forty years ago , I can only imagine the pretensions and ignorance that are today rife in police agencies.

13 posted on 05/17/2011 4:28:03 PM PDT by robowombat
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To: robowombat

Having been a cop, I can say there are a bunch of good ones out there...

But there are some terrible ones too...Just the worst people you can imagine, and they ruin it for the rest of them.


14 posted on 05/17/2011 4:40:58 PM PDT by Heavyrunner (Socialize this.)
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To: robowombat

That fascist piece of garbage should have gone to jail for threatening you.


16 posted on 05/17/2011 4:47:04 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Obama is a bigger threat to the safety of America than Osama)
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