Society attitude toward police is clearly changing

It used to be that police could do no wrong.  They were protectors and good guys  in a sometimes very bad world.  Problem is that power corrupts.  Cops got used to doing whatever they wanted to with little to no repercussions.  And while stomachs were full and hopes were high, the people allowed them to get away with it in the silly belief that it made us all safer.

Well, I am one of the only (and that is being generous to the others) writers in the blogosphere that has written about how the rise of the police state was tied to rise of liberalism and the close ally of liberalism, debt.  With this model view, the decline of debt based prosperity could only lead to the decline of the parasitic elements of society including police, firemen, bureaucrats, overly generous public service pensions, etc.  I specifically indicated that police violence would come under attack not because the con men running this show wanted it to stop but rather because they had to begin caring about the taxpayer again.  Because the middle class is falling off a cliff there is a lot less money for con men to bilk them out of.  All of the weak ones have been fleeced and all of the strong ones have either hidden their wealth or are standing up to the system and showing that it will take a fight in order to take it.

With diminished stolen or borrowed wealth with which to pay themselves and to run their organized criminal government game, the result with the fall of government would be the same as the fall of any other organized criminal cartel: violent infighting.  This is now beginning to happen.  Politicians and police are standing off against each other with prosecutors leading the way.  Mish did a little article about the police brutality today and it contained some interesting quotes along with a nice video summary of some of the recent murders committed by police.  While the story is damning enough on its own merits, it is doubly so because it was written by the liberal NY Times who have supported liberal politics and policies big time over the past 20 years.

Look at what Cincinnati prosecutor Deters said regarding police union comments that his remarks (i.e. trying the case in the court of public opinion) were inappropriate (which IMO they were):

When told that union officials had disagreed with his remarks, Deters didn't flinch. “Too bad,” he said Thursday. “When I indict a murderer, I don't pull punches.”  Deters called it “outrageous” that a traffic stop for a missing front license plate should lead to an “execution.”  “And if they don't like it, they shouldn't be police officers, and if they don't want to endorse me again, I couldn't give a s—,” Deters said of union officials.

Whether or not Deters knows it, he has subconsciously picked up on the mood of the herd and he is aligning himself with the new group think.  The solidarity of the elite class is collapsing into "if they don't like it, I don't give a shit".  The infighting has begun and it will get much worse going forward.  I'm still waiting for full on, no holds barred fist fights to break out in congress as they fight for the scraps of the dying debt Ponzi.

To further the point, Deters also now  suddenly wants to legalize pot, something which is apparently out of character for him.  His opposition, having failed to read my blog, never saw it coming:

“We were just shocked by that — absolutely shocked by that — especially given his background and what he's done before,” said Marcie Seidel, executive director of Drug Free Action Alliance, a Columbus-based anti-drug group.

Deters says he is concerned that marijuana charges tend to “skew” more toward the black community. “I would rather a guy smoke a joint than drink a bottle of vodka.... I don't have any problem legalizing it at all,” he said.