----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- Greg, I agree with you in part, but not entirely. I agree that there are bad parts of our country to live in, as you named a few. I am not a policeman so don't think I'm siding with them for that reason. As I said in a previous post, there are bad and good apples in every barrel. I think if I were a policeman and had the misfortune of living in one of the cities you mentioned and for some strange reason had decided not to move out of that area to improve myself and my living standards then I might become hardened and bitter like those cops must be. After all, if you handle garbage all day, everyday, you'll soon start smelling of garbage. Perhaps when a cop becomes so callused and hardenned that he turns into a monster towards everyone that he encounters he should be forced to remove himself from the department. But, who is going to enforce this if all his peers are the same? I know, and have known, quite a few cops in my area, some are pilots and some I've ridden motorcycles with. I've heard their vocabulary....'the perf was a scumbag or a slimeball'. I used to hear, 'he was a real sleezy charactor' but I guess that's what the cops think the good guys are now. Adam 12 (on TV) was the cops of the 50's and 60's. Today is a whole different situation, the bad guys are much badder (and moe of them) and the good guys are much more seldom heard about. Our media 'thrives' on the bad things and seldom reports anything else. Why? because our society has such low morals now that we thrive on it as well. The heart of our problems in my area (excluding drugs) is centered around the University campus area. The professional activists who protest anything and everything, the anarchists that start riots, overturn cars, vandalize passing cars (who don't want any part of the riot that they just suddenly find themselves caught in the middle of). A lot of these activists aren't enrolled in the University, they are from out of state and just hang around there because they know that the 'young and ambitious minds' of the college students will jump on the band wagon and join in on the protests. They don't need much encouragement and all of a sudden they're caught in the middle of a riot and don't even know fully what it's all about. That's okay, the cops are obviously the 'bad guys' because when the rioters were told to disband and clear the streets but refused to do so, the cops had no right to defend themselves with batons and pepper spray. And get this, the cops are issued rubber bullets, and shotguns that shoot bean bags. The time is coming my friends when we will be living under 'martial law'. I'm retired military and I've lived in countries where 'martial law' prevailed. It ain't fun folks but mark my words, it's coming to our country as well. Go watch an old WWII movie on TV and notice the military uniforms walking the streets carrying rifles, grenades, etc. picture yourself on that street, how would you like it??? Right now, we just have small problems and when the cops are called out and they use their batons and pepper spray to try and restore order and protect the innocent people and the stores that are being destroyed, they get reprimanded by the press and the 'do-gooder' groups who call it "police brutality". If the troublemakers weren't looking for trouble in the first place (pre-memitated rioting and looting) they wouldn't have been there in the first place and those big bad policemen wouldn't have had to use the batons and pepper spray. Why should we have a police force if we won't allow them to do their jobs? I don't remember the name of the city, but a couple of years ago in New Mexico (I think) the crime was so out of control that the sheriff or city council passed a law that all adults in the city must have a gun. A strange thing happened, the crime rate dropped to nearly zero. The bad guys knew that there were guns in every house and business and now they didn't have an advantage over the poor defenceless people of the town. "Gee, they can shoot back at us now", maybe we'd better not rob this place. Okay folks, I've been on my 'soapbox' long enough, I'm going to close this off and go outside and try and do something productive. I think I've 'stirred the pot' enough for one day. Take it seriously, or with a grain of salt. It's only our future that is at stake here.
Bob Saville Eugene, OR BTW, what does this subject have to do with 'coupes anyway? How did we get side tracked from flying? This should be on some social 'chat-net' instead of here among all us nice pilot types............. "Keep Coupes Flying" Bob Saville Greg Bullough wrote: > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- > At 10:23 PM 8/11/00 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I was just curious, who do you call if you need help when you or your family > >is the victim of a crime? > > A specious argument at best. Continuation of the classic use > of fear tactics to justify the abuses which are rampant in the profession. > The need for policing does not and never will justify abuses of power. > > Unfortunately, some of us live in New Jersey, where racism and classism > is endorsed and taught in our police academies first and by senior mentors > to junior officers subsequently. For that matter, there is also New York, Los > Angeles... > > Then of course, there are the risks of telling an officer, "no," or talking > back, even within your rights to do so. Suddenly, one is threatened with > being 'taken to jail' or maybe just roughed up a bit. > > Your profession has brought its PR problems on itself. > > If you want to solve the problems, knock off the use of scare tactics when > confronted with them, knock off the denials, and knock off the code of > silence crap, and demand a change in the behavior of your colleagues. > > Greg > > __________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from this list please send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ___________________________________________________________ > T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 > Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics __________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list please send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
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