| date: | 4 May 2015 at 08:09 | ||
| subject: | Fw: I was a Police Officer |
> I was a police
officer > > Today, I will not answer the radio call that your
boyfriend has come > home drunk and is beating you again. > > Today, I will not answer the radio call that your 16
year old daughter, > who is very responsible, is four hours late coming home
from school. > > Today, I will not answer the radio call that your store
has been robbed > or your house has been burglarized. > > Today, I will not stop a drunk driver from killing
someone. I will not > catch a rapist or a murderer or a car thief. > > Today, I will not answer the radio call that a man has
a gun or tried > to abduct a child or that someone has been stabbed or
has been in a > terrible accident. > > Today, I will not save your child that you locked in a
car or the child > you were too busy to watch who went outside and fell
into the swimming > pool, but that I revived. > > No, today I will not do that. > > Why? > > Today, I was suspended from duty for doing my job,
because the media, > liberals, a community organizer, a lawyer who formally
represented > terrorists and is the US attorney general and a mayor
who ran on an > anti-police agenda, who are all advised by a drug
dealer, liar and > income tax cheat. AND, all who know nothing about
Policing, have > vilified my profession. > > Because ---- > > Today, I was killed by a drunk driver while I was
helping push a > disabled car off the highway. > > Today, I was shot and killed during a routine traffic
stop to simply > tell someone that they had a taillight out. > > Today, I was killed in a traffic accident rushing to
help a citizen. > > Today, I was shot and killed serving a warrant on a
known drug dealer. > > Today, I was killed by a man when I came by to do a
welfare check > because his family was too busy. > > Today, I was killed trying to stop a bank robbery or a
grocery store robbery. > > Today I was killed doing my job. > > A chaplain and an officer will go to a house and tell a
mom and dad or > a wife or husband or a child that their son or daughter
or husband or > wife or father or mother won't be coming home
today. > > The flags at many police stations were flown at
half-mast today but > most people won't know why. > > There will be a funeral and my fellow officers will
come, a > twenty-one-gun salute will be given, and taps and
bagpipes will be > played as I am laid to rest. > > My name will be put on a plaque, on a wall, in a
building, in a city > somewhere. > > A folded flag will be placed on a mantel or a bookcase
in a home > somewhere and a family will mourn. > > There will be no cries for justice. > There will be no riots in the streets. > There will be no officers marching, screaming 'no
justice, no peace.' > No citizens will scream that something must be done. > No windows will be smashed, no cars burned, no stones
thrown, no names > called. > > Only someone crying themselves to sleep tonight will be
the only sign > that I was cared about. > > I was a police officer
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I was a young man. I won't grow old because some police officer illegally searched me, illegally arrested me, and then gave me a "rough ride" to the station which broke my back and killed me.
I was 11 years old. I used to play cops and robbers and pretend I was a policeman, just like other little boys. I won't do that anymore, because some cop decided I was a threat to an empty park and rolled up on me and opened fire.
See, this can work both ways.
Stop acting like you're above the law you're sworn to uphold.
Sounds like you're an asshole. No one will miss you.
Yeah, cry me a river, Pig.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_States
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/05/06/32141/
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/in_a_cop_culture_the_bill_of_rights_doesnt_amount_to_much
http://www.globalresearch.ca/notes-on-police-violence-in-america-police-shoot-and-kill-two-teenage-girls-within-two-weeks/5428432
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/13/1364206/-VIDEO-released-showing-Alabama-police-paralyzing-innocent-grandfather-from-India-officer-arrested?detail=email#
http://www.lawenforcementkillings.com/
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/police-shootings-ferguson-race-data
http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2014/10/21/race_age_and_police_killings_1107.html
Ever since the original Gulf War and more specifically once W was in charge and made the statement (paraphrasing here) "You're either with us or against us", that has been the general mindset of the country in general. Neither side of the aisle has a stranglehold on stupidity although the conservatives seem to carry the lion's share and this RWD forward is a shining example. I support the police and the troops yada yada yada and know most of the time they have a thankless job but that doesn't give them carte blanche to commit attocities and violate civil and let's face it, general human rights. They SHOULD be called out and prosecuted to the full extent. Most police are good, I work with several locals here on a regular basis but the fact is there are some bad apples. This bullshit of painting everything as an all or none, black or white argument is obtuse.
It's like saying everyone in Texas is a tinfoil hat wearing lunatic worried about an Obama takeover to get your guns, implementation of Walmart concentration camps and Sharia Law or that everyone in CA is a lilly-livered flaming Liberal. It just isn't so.
I wish conservatives hated police unions like teacher's unions
To LiberalGunner -
In fact, it's conservatives/rightwing who HAS screamed and whined about PD PAY and PD Unions, especially since the 2008 crash. You may be forgetting that it wasn't only Teacher pay that the rightwing screamed about. They also complained about the HIGH pay of PDs and firefighters, too. One recent example (read comments too):
http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2013/03/12/conservative-group-calls-police-salaries-inflated/
http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/77272/are-cops-and-firefighters-paid-too-much
http://www.salon.com/2014/04/11/obscenely_high_police_salaries_wheres_the_political_outrage/
Ya see, conservatives'll line up to diss the PD for their "too high" salaries, which they aren't entitled to. But hey! stone-cold murdering blahs? Why, no problem! Give that officer a bonus (just NOT from MY taxes)!!!
This weasely treacle is not only vomit-inducing, but per nearly everything RWD sends us, it's the height of hypocrisy.
I'm surprised that the Right hasn't complained about the fact that we actually pay our soldiers in uniform. If they love their country so much, shouldn't they be working for free?
The GOP hasn't been very supportive of pay increases for the grunts and Vets:
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/12/13/house-trims-pay-raises-for-troops-retirees.html
I'm sure most rightwingers resent any pay increases for the troops, but they're A-OK with massive Military budgets overall. Cognitive dissonance reigns supreme. As others have pointed out, kiss up kick down is the rule of the day for conservatives.
Top Brass, who haven't won a war since, uh, forever??? Give 'em giant sucking salaries.
The grunts who, you know, do the actual fighting, get killed, maimed, have PTSD, etc? Screw 'em!
So, ferschitz, CharlieE, and Hooray4US....I really must have missed something in this RWF. Where oh where does the police officer that is alluded to in this RWF complain about his low pay? Hum?
Additionally, what does the military have to do with this? Unless you just want to rant about our military....and yes...I just answered my own rhetorical question.
Y'all are a bunch of nit-wits.
Whine, whine, whine.
Mike Hawk
Mike complaining about a convo going off topic is laughable since he's probably the biggest single offender. It just drives home the point he's a complete dumbass. See Mike's diatribe about Michelle and the kids in the Jenner RWF forward above...off topic. Damn Mike, you are one stupid MF'er.
I really must have missed something
Understatement of the year.
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