EXACTLY. Now it's somehow "conservative" to support cops who escalate every stupid incident into a life-or-death matter. WTF happened??
I am conservative. I do NOT like police. They are NOT my friend. They get into every damned aspect of our lives these days. I don't want traffic cams, plate scanners, facial recognition, cops killing dogs, cops given 100% leeway to use lethal force.
Our collective memory seems to have forgotten the time when CITIZENS were involved in law enforcement, and would often help hunt outlaws and be permitted lethal force. This was common. When politicians were terrified of citizens who might tar and feather them in the streets if they went too far. Now we are all pathetic, willing slaves of a police state.
When I was young drunks who had too much to drive slept it off in parking lots. The Police let them alone.
EXACTLY. Now it’s somehow “conservative” to support cops who escalate every stupid incident into a life-or-death matter. WTF happened??
I am conservative. I do NOT like police. They are NOT my friend. They get into every damned aspect of our lives these days. I don’t want traffic cams, plate scanners, facial recognition, cops killing dogs, cops given 100% leeway to use lethal force.
Our collective memory seems to have forgotten the time when CITIZENS were involved in law enforcement, and would often help hunt outlaws and be permitted lethal force. This was common. When politicians were terrified of citizens who might tar and feather them in the streets if they went too far. Now we are all pathetic, willing slaves of a police state.
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