There’s a theory advanced by liberals that since we have police to protect us, we really don’t need our 2nd Amendment freedom and our rights to keep and bear arms can therefore be infringed, infringed away.
Given the fact that a whole host of police officers have demonstrated that they’re as crazy as the rest of us, maybe that’s not such a wonderful premise.
I’ll get to Christopher Dorner and the mayhem this former police officer is causing. But first, let me say a few preliminary things.
What Democrats want – the only kind of society that they say wouldn’t be truly evil, in fact – is for guns to be confiscated from the law-abiding people and entrusted entirely to the state in order to prevent the terrible shootings we have come to expect since Democrats kicked God out of the schools and declared human life worthless via their mass their abortion mills. Democrats worship the state the way Christians worship God, and place their trust in the State.
Jesus Christ is my Savior; Democrats’ savior, crassly put, is Obama. It is Big Government that they turn to. Deuteronomy 15:4 says that there should be no poor in a nation that turns to God because the LORD will bless them. Democrats say that’s a giant load of crap and say Obama will bless us; Obama will take care of us; we don’t trust God to take care of us, we trust Marxist class warfare and redistributionism to provide for our needs and we trust Obama to dole it out to us.
God pointed out in 1 Samuel chapter 8:10-18 that trust in big government and the king who rules over amounts to flagrant distrust in God. And if we actually place our trust in God, we distrust any human government that would rise up to eclipse Him. I’ve said that before and I’m already planning a more detailed article to say it again.
In the same way, the spirit of redistributionism is likewise flagrant distrust in God.
Let me go back to the soul of redistributionism, as expressed in Karl Marx’s famous statement:
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”
And I challenge any Democrat or liberal to explain to me how the party of the left isn’t the party of socialism.
There is another spirit of Marxism that Democrats have channeled: the spirit of class warfare and the bitterness, envy and hatred that results from it. Karl Marx put it this way to sum-up how profoundly anti-Christ it truly is:
“Religion is … the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions.”
What did Karl Marx mean by this?
Basically, Marx taught that the world is divided into the haves and the have-nots – which is everywhere being shouted around us today. And the have-nots were being oppressed by the haves. But rather than the people rising up in rage and taking what is theirs by force as Marx wanted them to, the people were happy in their religion, which had been invented by the rich to keep the proletariat in bondage. Since God and religion is an illusion, and materialism is all there actually is, the happiness that the people had in their Christianity was nothing more than a narcotic that kept them in bondage. The only “real” reality is economic reality. And therefore the solution presented by Marx was for the people to set aside their shackles of religion and rise up in a spirit of rage and take what was theirs by force. Only then could the people have actual, “material” happiness as the wealth of others was redistributed to them by Marxist government.
This demonic spirit of class warfare, redistributionism and the hatred of God upon which it is based, is the heart and soul of the Democrat Party.
Anyway, Christopher Dorner turns out to be a poster boy for the spirit of entitlement and the rage that goes along with it. This is a black police officer from a liberal Los Angeles Police Department who strangely believed he was entitled to his job. He’s a guy who literally writes in his manifesto that goes on and on and on that it’s the police department’s fault that he didn’t get to have a family so he is therefore entitled to kill the families of other cops.
And you’ve got to understand: this guy was a cop. He was deemed as a top marksman as a cop. He was given SWAT training because he kept demanding that he was entitled to more and more training. And now he’s on the loose shooting people.
I never had the opportunity to have a family of my own, I’m terminating yours.
And I never had the opportunity to get off my lazy ass and get a job. I’m redistributing your wages.
And if you can’t even trust a black, liberal police officer from a liberal city not to go nuts and prove to anyone with a mammalian brain that we need our 2nd Amendment protection, who CAN you trust???
And wah, wah, wah. I’m entitled to be a cop and the police department was wrong to fire me just because I shredded my credibility by falsely slandering a training officer who gave me a bad evaluation. So I’m going to prove they’re wrong by shooting people. At least if I can’t get all the stuff I’m “entitled” to.
This Christopher Dorner spent his whole life before writing his manifesto manifesting extrme liberal entitlement syndrome.
Don’t worry. You don’t need to have any means of protection. Trust the police with your life. Keep chewing that cud of yours. Everything is fine. Obama keeps you as safe as he kept our ambassador to Libya.
Oh, wait a minute. This guy WAS the police just a short time ago. In fact, he was a member of every group that Obama would have handpicked as THE guy whom you should throw away your weapons and trust to protect you. He was black. he was a cop in the most liberal police department in America. Why do you think you need guns when you’ve got cops like Christopher Dorner keeping you safe???
This kind of raises an interesting question: if guns should be taken out of the hands of all the law-abiding citizens because a tiny, tiny small percentage of people have gun nuts and killed people with guns, then shouldn’t we take the guns away from the law-abiding police when a tiny, tiny small percentage of cops go nuts and kill people with guns???
I’ve got my Democrat thinking cap on. It comes to a point at the top. It’s made out of tinfoil. But if LAPD officer Christopher Dorner wasn’t allowed to have a gun in the first place, then he could never have killed these people, right?
And think about the growing number of wrongful shootings police officers are engaged in. If they didn’t have guns, they couldn’t have wrongfully shot anybody, could they have?
And let’s think about Obama. Forget the abject personal moral hypocrisy of a man who has massive armed protection of himself and his family while demanding that everyone else without such protection be denied the right to have guns that are capable of providing them such protection; think about the danger that Obama is in with all those guns around him.
We’ve had Secret Service agents wrongfully shoot people. And I mean Secret Service agents who were part of Obama’s protection. Just like a tiny, tiny minority of law-abiding gun owners have ever had any problems with gun violence, a few Secret Service agents are bad people who snap. And Secret Service agents even plot to break the law in groups at times. We’ve got to keep Obama safe, don’t we? We need to make sure there are absolutely no guns whatsoever around him. Guns are dangerous. Either guns are dangerous or Democrats are dangerous.
I bet you that there were quite a few of these issues during Stalin’s day, too. I mean, he took away all the guns from the rest of the people, armed to the teeth his internal security forces so they could crush the rest of the disarmed people, and you’ve got to imagine that more than a few of them went nuts just like Christopher Dorner did. You wonder how many defenseless people were shot by psycho KGB thugs.
Let’s make sure that if we’re going to be morally stupid enough to take away guns – or any segment of arms that we have a constitutional right to keep and bear – from the people, that we embrace the same “logic” of taking away guns from the people to apply to the police, the military, and everybody else.
It’s amazing: the United States is by FAR and away #1 in gun ownership. But we are #28 in gun homicides (see also here), with basically all the nations ahead of us having extremely strict gun control laws. Democrats are pure, lunatic fools for asserting that guns are the problem. Statistics and actual facts refute them. Yet they persist.
Interestingly, in America itself, over half of all of our gun homicides, of course, are committed by just a tiny 6% sliver of a demographic group who vote 98% Democrat. So in trying to confiscate guns, Democrats implicitly acknowledge that the reason we have such a violence problem is because Democrats are truly evil and vile people who cannot control themselves and must therefore be treated like animals.
If Democrats wish to disarm themselves, then that’s fine with me. It would be fine if Democrats merely insisted on baring their own throats to the next predator and pleaded, “Kill me, only PLEASE don’t hurt me!” But the rest of us aren’t irresponsible psychos the way Democrats are.
I’m not a farm animal who should be herded into an enclosure and guarded by guards who could themselves snap just as easily as any of the rest of us. I’m an individual with a constitutional right to keep and bear arms without being infringed upon by the government. And by the way, unless AR-15s, AK-47s and M4s are somehow not “arms,” then I have a right to protect myself, my property and my family with such “assault weapons” as I see fit, too.
Update: It turns out that Christopher Dorner is even more of a liberal than I thought he was, as documented in the leftist ramblings of his manifesto. A few examples (I did not delete his frequent use of profanity for the sake of accuracy):
You disrespect the office of the POTUS/Presidency and Commander in Chief. You call him Kenyan, mongroid, halfrican, muslim, and FBHO when in essence you are to address him as simply, President. The same as you did to President George W. Bush and all those in the highest ranking position of our land before him. Just as I always have. You question his birth certificate, his educational and professional accomplishments, and his judeo-christian beliefs. You make disparaging remarks about his dead parents. You never questioned the fact that his former opponent, the honorable Senator John McCain, was not born in the CONUS or that Bush had a C average in his undergrad. Electoral Candidates children (Romney) state they want to punch the president in the face during debates with no formal repercussions. No one even questioned the fact that the son just made a criminal threat toward the President. You call his wife a Wookie. Off the record, I love your new bangs, Mrs. Obama. A woman whose professional and educational accomplishments are second to none when compared to recent First wives. You call his supporters, whether black, brown, yellow, or white, leeches, FSA, welfare recipients, and ni$&er lovers. You say this openly without any discretion. Before you start with your argument that you believe I would vote for Obama because he has the same skin color as me, fuck you. I didn’t vote in this last election as my choice of candidate, John Huntsman, didn’t win the primary candidacy for his party. Mr. President, I haven’t agreed with all of your decisions but of course I haven’t agreed with all of your predecessors decisions. I think you’ve done a hell of a job with what you have been dealt and how you have managed it. I shed a tear the night you were initially elected President in 2008. I never thought that day would occur. A black man elected president in the U.S. in my lifetime. I cracked a smiled when you were re-elected in 2012 because I really didn’t think you were going to pull that one off. Romney, stop being a sore loser. You could’ve exited graciously and still contributed significantly to public service, not now. Mr. President, get back to work. Many want to see you fail as they have stated so many times previously.
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Mr. Vice President, do your due diligence when formulating a concise and permanent national AWB plan. Future generations of Americans depend on your plan and advisement to the president. I’ve always been a fan of yours and consider you one of the few genuine and charismatic politicians. Damn, sounds like an oxymoron calling you an honest politician. It’s the truth. Hillary Clinton. You’ll make one hell of a president in 2016. Much like your husband, Bill, you will be one of the greatest. Look at Castro in San Antonio as a running mate or possible secretary of state. He’s (good people) and I have faith and confidence in him. Look after Bill. He was always my favorite President. Chelsea grew up to be one hell of an attractive woman. No disrespect to her husband.
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Wayne LaPierre, President of the NRA, you’re a vile and inhumane piece of shit. You never even showed 30 seconds of empathy for the children, teachers, and families of Sandy Hook. You deflected any type of blame/responsibility and directed it toward the influence of movies and the media. You are a failure of a human being. May all of your immediate and distant family die horrific deaths in front of you.
Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough, Pat Harvey, Brian Williams, Soledad Obrien, Wolf Blitzer, Meredith Viera, Tavis Smiley, and Anderson Cooper, keep up the great work and follow Cronkite’s lead. I hold many of you in the same regard as Tom Brokaw and the late Peter Jennings. Cooper, stop nagging and berating your guest, they’re your (guest). Mr. Scarborough, we met at McGuire’s pub in P-cola in 2002 when I was stationed there. It was an honor conversing with you about politics, family, and life.
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Ellen Degeneres, continue your excellent contribution to entertaining America and bringing the human factor to entertainment. You changed the perception of your gay community and how we as Americans view the LGBT community. I congratulate you on your success and opening my eyes as a young adult, and my generation to the fact that you are know different from us other than who you choose to love. Oh, and you Prop 8 supporters, why the fuck do you care who your neighbor marries. Hypocritical pieces of shit.
So our murderous cop from the liberal bastion of Los Angeles worships the Obamas and Joe Biden and celebrates liberal lesbians and lionizes all the most leftist “journalists” who fed him his fascist liberal propaganda in the purest form. And of course this liberal police officer with his love of liberal politicians and liberal journalists and liberal celebrities hates and despises Wayne LaPierre and the National Rifle Association.
And of course all of those “journalists” are as busy pointing out what a liberal this cold-blooded gun psycho is the way they rushed to try to frame the Tea Party when one of the last psychos started shooting up a movie theater in Colorado. That’s one of a good dozen times liberal propagandists using the guise of “journalism” have wrongfully tarnished conservatives for these psychos. And here’s their chance to actually report the truth for a change: liberalism equals fascist psychosis.
What do you want to bet none of the mainstream media reporters decides its “newsworthy” to report this disgrace to the gullible public the way they have so often tried to tie every killer to conservatism no matter how flimsy the possible connections???
They’re as likely to report Christopher Dorner’s liberalism and support for Obama and Hillary Clinton as they are to cover the fact that the man who went into the Family Research Council headquarters and shot a guard used a liberal Southern Poverty Law Center hate map to get to his destination. Will they cover that actual fact the way they covered the malicious lie that Sarah Palin somehow “targeted” Gabrielle Giffords?
You’re damned right they won’t.
As long as there are liberals, Americans need to have guns to protect themselves from the resulting fascism.
Tags: 2nd amendment, Christopher Dorner, gun homicides, gun ownership, Hillary Clinton, LAPD, manhunt, manifesto, police officer, President of the NRA, Wayne LaPierre, You disrespect the office of the POTUS/Presidency and Commander in Chief, You’ll make one hell of a president in 2016
February 7, 2013 at 2:23 pm
Michael Eden,
I remember my mother telling me that there was a kid in school around 40 years ago that went home & told his mommy that he did not want to say the Pledge ,but that the Teacher made him stand with his class mates & that mother went to court & sued the Board of Education over it. In stead of the Courts saying okay he doesn’t have to stand & say it,
What the Courts did was make the schools take all references to GOD out of the schools because of some lazy little rug rats.
It is because of mothers like her & the way they raise their stupid rug rats that has caused this country to go to hell. They are the ones who voted for obama. Who happens to be a rug rat that digs around in the GARBAGE. Those are the ones that he provides guns for.
February 7, 2013 at 10:56 pm
Anna Bennett,
The Bible very clearly points out that people like the liberals we see all around us are God’s and our ENEMIES. They love the things that God has condemned as evil and they hate the things that God declared good.
Unfortunately, the Bible also tells us that we are to love our enemies.
I was very angry that this nation turned so radically stupid and amoral in 2008. And here we are now. The country is in an economic hellhole, just as we said it would be. Obama’s $862 billion (actually $3.27 trillion) stimulus that Obama said would create millions of shovel-ready jobs turned out not to be very damn shovel-ready. Just as we said would happen. Obama raised taxes on damn near everybody in complete contradiction to his lies that only the rich would have to pay his taxes. Just as we said would happen. Obama’s health care is an abject evil that cost FAR more than the wildest official cost estimates said it would cost. Just as we said would happen. Iran is on the verge of having nuclear weapons and the ballistic missiles to deliver it. Just as we said would happen. We’re going to pull out of Afghanistan in disgrace and the Taliban will immediately take over again. Just as we said would happen. And the whole Middle East is in a state of chaos under this failed foreign policy FAR beyond anything that the Democrats decried Bush for. Just as we said would happen.
Bad people prefer lies. And America has crossed the threshold.
Just as the Bible said would happen given the fact that the Antichrist is right around the corner and the Bible never mentions America in Bible prophecy because very soon we will be completely irrelevant.
The thing I now realize is that we must realize that the last days are truly here. We’re in the time just before the Antichrist comes.
And as we believe that, we will start to live the way Jesus’ last days people ought to live.
I’m still angry about the lies that were told to a stupid and perverse generation who bought them because they have “fundamentally transformed” into bad people. But I want to get past my anger and embrace Christ’s Gospel.
It’s too late for politics to save us. We had our chance to vote and we blew it; next comes the beast. And I believe that even if Republicans win in 2014 and even if they win in 2016, it will be too late to undo 8 years of Obama’s God damn America agenda. This country is going down and all the politics is going to hell with it.
Politics is important because the Book of Revelation makes it crystal clear: the Antichrist will be the ultimate politician.
And the politics that we see right now are a prelude to the hell of politics that is coming.
And I want to warn people. Even if I am the cynical version of Jonah, who goes to Ninevah but says, “You evil turds all deserve to burn in hell, but My God sent me here to give you one last chance to repent and straighten out your lives. I hope you don’t take it.” Mind you, I’d rather have more of a heart for the lost than I’m feeling toward the liberals. But at least I’m trying to warn people about what is coming.
So I know what you’re going through, Anna. I sympathize with your anger because I’ve felt it. But I don’t want to keep feeling it. Because the Word of God tells me there’s a better way and frankly Obama and his demoniacs don’t deserve the place we let them occupy – as in “Occupy Movement” – in our heads and hearts.
February 7, 2013 at 11:56 pm
Michael Eden,
Your right & I know it. I just hope that people will listen to you. I had some friends that I tried to help & because they believed every thing that obama said, we are no longer friends.
Not having their friendship any more doesn’t bother as I know that what said to them was the truth.
February 8, 2013 at 2:55 pm
Anna,
Since this last election, I, too, have less friends. I have even managed to distance myself from some family members. My half brother fully supports Obama and is an atheist, too. Because I can’t stand to be around his mother and the fact that he is an idiot, I have pretty much cut him off. We were never close, anyway, and did not grow up together. If I run into him, I am always cordial, but I never go out of my way to make contact with him.
There are a couple of school teachers that I was friends with. These two were the quintessential liberals, as they believe in evolution, global warming, abortion, and, of course, they believe there is no God and that the Bible is a book of fables and, sadly, they have no problem brainwashing their students with this trash. In the months leading up to the election, I had many arguments with them. Then one day, we had a discussion on abortion and it was at that point that I decided that there was no hope for these two fools and that was that. Hey, I tried…..
God says plainly in the Bible that as believers we are not to be close friends with unbelievers and, for some reason, He is not real fond of fornicators, and warns to have nothing to do with them. Today, that would include about 90% of the population. It is not easy being a Christian these days.
February 8, 2013 at 11:43 pm
Anna and FMC,
The only way you can have an intelligent discussion or debate is if both sides are willing to listen to reason and both sides are honest with their presentation.
I believe that for the most part, liberals are simply incapable of manifesting either criteria for a fair/meaningful discussion. Which is why I’m not particularly eager to interact with liberals.
Liberals are bad people because they have a bad worldview. With going on sixty million innocent human beings viciously torn apart and killed in the womb, with homosexuality and pornography the law of the land and with the permanent establishment of a giant socialist wlefare society, you should see how that has manifested itself. Having abandoned their Creator and His Word, they have replaced reality with a host of “-isms” and their minds are owned by these -isms. And also as I keep pointing out, the quintessential essence of liberalism is hypocrisy. You can’t have any kind of honest debate with somebody who says raising the debt ceiling is “unpatriotic” and “a failure of leadership” only to say later that anybody who isn’t for raising the debt ceiling is evil. But that’s what liberals do ALL THE TIME.
You simply cannot have a rational discussion with a hypocrite. You end up with a constantly shifting and therefore meaningless frame of reference. I don’t waste my time whenever I identify that.
Now, liberals would tend to demonize me as “intolerant” for taking that position. But here’s the thing, the type of “tolerance” they mean is that I should be willing to accept all points of view as being equal to my own. And two things: thing one, tolerance in that perverted sense is most certainly NOT a value of Christianity (which makes exclusive truth claims); and thing two is that liberals are the most intolerant people on earth by their very own warped standard of “tolerance.” When liberals took over journalism, they purged all conservatives. When liberals took over academia, they purged all conservatives. These two fields which are THE most dominated by liberals are in fact the most intolerant fields of ALL the career fields. You simply cannot be a conservative and expect to get a job even as the liberals who praise themselves on their “tolerance” in these fields purge them out.
Like I said, though: you can’t have a meaningful argument with a hypocrite. They argue from dishonest premises and draw dishonest conclusions from their dishonest premises.
FMC says that “God says plainly in the Bible that as believers we are not to be close friends with unbelievers,” presumably with the operant word “close.” I’d like to hear his justication for that statement (hopefully to learn), but I think the way he said it I would tend to agree with him. I don’t recall the Bible stating unequivocally not to be close friends with unbelievers directly, but it tells us “Do not be yoked together with unbelievers” (2 Cor 6:14) primarily in the context of marriage. It tells us that Jesus “did not come to bring peace, but a sword” (Matt 10:34) in many relationships. And in the next verse He points out that even many family relationships will not survive because Jesus’ Gospel divides people on the basis of truth. And it tells us to “come out from among unbelievers, and separate yourselves from them” (2 Cor 6:17).
FMC may have better passages than that, but I agree with him that we should not “be close friends with unbelievers.” I have many non-Christian contacts; but my close friends are all passionate believers in Jesus Christ, and it is Christ that we share most in common.
I don’t intentionally alienate unbelievers, but my heart draws closest to those whose hearts belong to Christ. And it is from these souls that I take my comfort and my counsel.
When I became a brand new Christian, I was passionate about my new life in Christ. And I realized that I had some good friends, and I had some friends that would steer me back into bondage and despair (to drugs, to sex, etc.) if I didn’t sever my ties with them. It was common sense – along with some prodding by the Holy Spirit.
I don’t think it’s any different now.
There are people who avidly acclaim so-called “friendship evangelism.” The idea is to make new friends (along with the old friends) with the goal of leading them to Jesus Christ. And I won’t disparage that in any way. Relationships properly maintained are a great way to live out and present Jesus Christ to the lost.
But I believe it’s a matter of calling. Let me give an example I gave in a comment to somebody from yesterday: the pastor may be called to turn the other cheek and lay down his life for the sake of the Cross. The special operator who has been ordered to save that pastor may be called to blow the turd away before he can so much as lay a finger on that pastor. You can literally have two different people in the same situation with callings from God that might lead them to do different things. It’s not that morality is relative or anything (because it’s not!); it’s that God is working in different people in different ways and to different ends.
God might call that “friendship evangelism” guy to make a new friend and share Jesus Christ. He might be calling somebody else to stand up for the truth and be willing to sever ties with an unbeliever. Both are righteous things to do in certain contexts.
I believe that God knows what kind of people we are and what kind of fires we have inside of us when He equips us for His work. Which in this context is to say that He equips some people to make friends with unbelievers and lead them to Christ and He equips others to be able to go out and argue and defend the truth and fight for that truth in the public square.
James 4:6 says that God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. I know that I could certainly be a lot more humble in some of my arguments that are recorded in this blog. And I am trying more to do that. God doesn’t want us to be proud, angry, bitter people. He doesn’t want us shouting in rage during political arguments. I want to be more gracious, more of a peacemaker, more “tolerant” in the ancient sense.
But I don’t want to compromise my values, my principles or my faith. Nor do I want those values, principles and faith to be a doormat because I won’t stand up for them.
February 11, 2013 at 4:46 am
What is interesting about this Dorner guy is that he now has a following or a bunch of sympathizers. I speculate that he even has a following among cops.
I hope I got the story more or less right but this creepy cop is all put out that he didn’t get what he wanted from his job or boss or whatever so he went out shooting cops.
Did he shoot random cops? Or did he shoot cops up the chain of command, or up his chain of command?
I see this mentality in the cops of my city. I read their blogs. We the people or taxpayer get cramped for money and ask cops to make sacrifices like the general population. Cops go into a screaming tantrum because they expect automatic raises and advancement. They expect that we should bend our knees and doff our hats at their pensions unfunded liabilities.
I see cops hating the mayor and the chiefs. They are all union so they think they should get to pick their bosses, and that the role of their bosses is to just support them and give them what they want unconditionally.
From my observations in the third world, when a society declines the segment that goes nastiest the fastest is cops and military. Good thing we got homos in the military. That will make sure that there won’t be anything like dishonor or military abusing civilians. Because, you know, homos are morally superior.
I see war coming. Not the kind of war you get to watch from the comfort of your living room couch.
February 11, 2013 at 10:10 am
I’m Confused, why would the KGB Thugs Go Nuts After Soviets Took The Guns Away From The Russian People?
Just think people like Dorner & obama will never make it to Heaven.
God will not except American Hating Bigots into Heaven.
February 11, 2013 at 10:29 pm
Anna Bennett,
It might be that you’re confused because I didn’t do a very good job with my title.
But my notion was that how the heck are you supposed to fight your psycho murderer KGB agents – or your friendly neighborhood LAPD psycho murderer cop – when you don’t have any dang guns???
We’re being sold such a bill of lies by Democrats. Basically, they argue that we don’t need any guns because we’ve got the police to protect us.
But our police are as nuts as the rest of us. There are more gun crimes committed by cops per capita than there are by legal gun owning Americans.
February 11, 2013 at 10:35 pm
Dog Walker,
You may be right. I see very hard times coming to America between now and when the coming beast takes over.
February 11, 2013 at 10:48 pm
Michael Eden,
Thank you for your response.And you are right It seems to me as tho all the cops are Democrats. We need to find us 1000,000,00 Republican cops per City in every single State.
I know that I am dreaming,but it doesn’t hurt to dream.
February 12, 2013 at 1:37 pm
Anna Bennett,
There ARE good cops. I like to think I was one of them before injuries forced me out (and I wasn’t interested in a desk job with the department). Mind you, I was only on the force for under two years and never had the seniority to start “benefitting” the way the career guys could.
Who knows what would have happened to me as I increasingly succumbed to the prevailing notion that it’s us and them and civilians are all potential thems, and that we need to maintain that thin blue line. And of course we need to take care of our own and all of “them” should pay the tab no matter how out-of-control that tab is. Because “us” deserve it.
This is the union mentality EVERYWHERE. It’s not just cops. It’s the way that bitter people see the world.
Let me say in parentheses that Marxism demands people be bitter. Karl Marx – in his “religion is the opiate of the masses” quote stated that the left needed to abolish Christianity because Christianity kept people content even in poverty and the left needed them instead to rise up in a spirit of class-warfare rage and take what was theirs by force. And then of course when the people took it from the “bourgeoise” (what our liberals call “the rich”) it was all too easy for the leftists who ran the government to keep that money and dole it out to their political and private cronies rather than giving it to the people. But what can I say? Fools and evil people always believe the Marxist lie; that’s why it’s still around no matter how badly it keeps failing.
The thing is that unions have a way of crowding out anybody else’s opinion but their own. And unions have come to own the police just as they have come to own the teachers.
If you get out of line, things will start “happening” to you. By people who know how to hide their tracks, in the case of the police. It only takes a couple of officers on a small department, because they have the union money and the union muscle backing them up. And they can call in resources as they need to get their way and shut everybody else up.
The left is so rabid and so willing to do ANYTHING to get their way. And the right give in and shut up.
That’s the problem with the world today, not just the police.