Cops just shoot Everybody now, with surprisingly little social resistance

[AnotherMcIntosh]

62. No, it's not. You are a lawyer? And you reason that "is like saying all blacks are criminals,

Southern whites are Red Necks ..."

Absolutely not.

Your analogies do not fit because being a cop is a choice.

All persons who put on the blue uniform, whether they unconstitutionally brutalize others or merely join in protecting them with the Blue Wall of Silence, chose to do so.

It's more like saying all those who chose to join Hitler's SchutzStaffel (or SS) were evil assholes. Do you think that there were exceptions? After choices were made to join the SS, no thinking person would excuse those who joined by saying "Yes, there were some bad apples."

As for the SchutzStaffel analogy, we are not there yet. We are not going to be there for a while. But we are moving in that direction. The brutalization of the Occupy Wall Street protestors, with no objection from the higher ups, shows exactly what is happening.

So they bought you or your conscience off with a ride-along or two? Or you decided that you wanted to make some friends in the police department in your area?

You say with respect to a particular cop that you've befriended, or who has befriended you, or has given the appearance of befriending you,

"This man would die to protect us."

Here's a clue. If one of his colleagues or a group of them were attacking you, that's the last thing that he would do. You think not? Look around. Look at what is going on in other police departments. With the militarization of the police, they view the American citizenry as the enemy or potential enemy.

You want to be their friend. Disregard the Blue lawlessness. Forget about the "drop guns," the bag of marijuana or other drugs that they just happened to find, the hundreds of deaths caused by the casual use of Tasers. You'll think that if you are their friend, they will be yours. Until you put on the blue uniform and prove by the passage of time on the job that you, too, will overlook Blue criminality, they are not really your friends.

Has the cop that you admire so (the one who "would die to protect us&quot ever seen Blue criminality? Has he - like Serpico from a long time ago - risked his life to protect the citizenry against his fellow cops? If he has been on the job for a while, he is not going to.