Yeah, I knew we would see it sooner or later. The lower level operatives of the liberal police state will lose the backing of those above them when the political pressure gets too high. I have mentioned this in several posts like this one over the past year. This new direction is part and parcel of the new conservatism sweeping the country.
In today's story, somehow a grand jury decided not to recommend charges be brought against the murderous cops who killed a black man for the heinous crime of selling untaxed cigarettes. While the murderers got away with it for now I don't think this will be the last of it. What's more important, however, is that cops are now getting training on the matter.
Well, "training" is code for "a warning" folks. Cops that have not been trained can do whatever they want without consequence because of course, anything that is not specifically against departmental policy is in fact within departmental guidelines. But once specific training has been issued, the protection from above will evaporate if it happens again. That is why the police union is characterizing Mayor Bill Blasio's order for police to receive retraining as being thrown under the bus. These guys do not want new rules or oversight. They want to run open loop. Wouldn't we all want that if we could. Unfortunately that creates chaos, even when the cops are the ones doing it.
As the people awaken to the police state crisis that is now the USA, they will push back. At first it will be protests but there are always 0.02% of the population for who the G23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate known as the police state does not calm them down. Instead it turns them into Reavers. We are still very early in this process but I have zero doubt that there are thousands of people out there trying to figure out how to get social revenge on the authoritarian government and their jack booted centurions. It is going to get ugly. People will be killed. Even innocent ones. We are already seeing cases where people who have lost everything burn their house down so the bank can't have it and kill random policemen who show up. The police think they are tough but that is only when facing down unarmed individuals whose names and numbers they already have. When the roles are reversed it is the cops who will be in great fear for their lives.
I said it before and I will say it again to any police out there: the wind is no longer at your back. Be quick to step down from your imaginary role as master of the people and approach the people with humility and respect; tread lightly upon the people before they rise up and smack you down. Now is the time to rebuild the bridge. But if all you can do is pick up clubs and shields and guns and grenades and MRAPs, all you buy is a wider chasm and a larger proportion of the population that is wishing you ill will. Time really is running out on you. There is no possible way that the people will accept your over authoritarianism now that it is being broadcast by the main stream media instead of the good old boy cover ups that you have gotten used to. Sadly, I do not gauge you in aggregate to be smart enough to see this and so instead of embracing it you will resist it. If history is any guide, it will end badly for you. The more authoritarian you become, the more Reavers you will create.
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I disagree about the historic record. Rather, when the populace questions the police authority, it's because the police is dropping its cover function to protect the people from criminal elements and letting its purpose come in evidence: protect the status quo, which includes themselves. What happens then more often than not is that the status quo circles the wagons and confronts the people. This always leads to conflict between the elite and its centurions, as you call them, and the people in varying degrees. This is why the police has been equipped and trained against popular revolts more than against boring police work lately. Make no mistake: the stakes are high for the status quo and they will defend it at all costs. This is the stuff of popular revolutions. Though it doesn't have to be this way, after Ferguson and NYC, I'm afraid that it will be so in the US.
Hmmm. I don't see how Blazio's active agreement with the people on this matter as circling the wagons. That term to me would mean that the elites and their centurions would close ranks and become tighter knit and speak with one authoritarian voice.
Call me crazy but this seems more like Blasio is throwing the police under the wagon than circling wagons with them.
I guess time will tell but I would not gauge the future of the US too closely against places in which the people have no guns. The founders of the USA completely understood this and so their legacy lives on in our constitution no matter how much someone tries to trample it in the near term. In places where people are disarmed, nobody is fearful of blow back and so the elites and their bodyguards for the status quo (AKA cops) do what they will.
But when the guns start showing up and the cops begin falling over dead, the real fear of a pitchfork revolution (but this time with AR15s) will serve as the societal feedback mechanism that reverts the authoritarianism back to the mean.
MRAPs and other military gear are mostly symbolic. You cannot beat an armed indigenous population once the mood has turned against the authorities. It just doesn't work. You can't hide in your MRAP all day long and as soon as you step outside of it you have to know there is a rifle behind every blade of grass. It's just stupid to go there and our elites are not stupid. Greedy immoral fvcks? Yes. Stupid? No.
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