Comments on: Top 5 Reasons Not to Trust the Police http://thewaronbullshit.com/2008/02/17/dont_trust_police/ Take No Prisoners Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:12:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Rick http://thewaronbullshit.com/2008/02/17/dont_trust_police/#comment-2033 Rick Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:39:54 +0000 http://thewaronbullshit.com/2008/02/17/dont_trust_police/#comment-2033 @Kavan - LOL, that's funny shit! I agree with you! A gun and a badge isn't reason enough for me to trust someone. We recently had a cop in my home town that was TEMPORARILY suspended for using his taser on a man who was handcuffed, and, was already in the back of the cop car. Funny thing is, he was only suspended because he hadn't completed his taser training and therefore wasn't licensed to carry one. @Kavan - LOL, that’s funny shit!
I agree with you! A gun and a badge isn’t reason enough for me to trust someone. We recently had a cop in my home town that was TEMPORARILY suspended for using his taser on a man who was handcuffed, and, was already in the back of the cop car. Funny thing is, he was only suspended because he hadn’t completed his taser training and therefore wasn’t licensed to carry one.

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]]> By: J http://thewaronbullshit.com/2008/02/17/dont_trust_police/#comment-1069 J Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:10:10 +0000 http://thewaronbullshit.com/2008/02/17/dont_trust_police/#comment-1069 Curiously enough, even though I would likely qualify, in most instances, as either totalitarian or rectal-cavity-esque, I'm with you on this one. In a perfect society, it would be fantastic to rely on an impartial police force protecting according to the rule of law, with a secondary safety net provided by an unemotional and unbiased justice system. Contrary to (un)popular belief, however, we live in an imperfect rule (yes, you knew that), the police are human (to err is human, to err vigorously is fuzz), and the justice system is exactly as reliable as... have you ever heard of the Edsel? (If you haven't, it's a typical Ford and you can understand my anti-American-engineering drift, doubtless.) We live in a system where it takes the police a half hour to show up at the site of a violent crime but only thirty seconds to electrocute an innocent bystander, where the prosecution of the innocent is a fantastic replacement motto for any room with a judge's bench, and where adherence to a strict code of unquestioned authority is more dogma than a Papal bull (yes, it's certainly bull of some sort, even if not quite Papal). If I question the authority of an emotional wreck wearing a badge and brandishing a firearm, I am no longer a child of the revolution, no longer an anti-totalitarian, no longer a patriot standing up for freedom. Apparently I am either a terrorist or a sympathizer. Oops. My bad. Curiously enough, even though I would likely qualify, in most instances, as either totalitarian or rectal-cavity-esque, I’m with you on this one. In a perfect society, it would be fantastic to rely on an impartial police force protecting according to the rule of law, with a secondary safety net provided by an unemotional and unbiased justice system. Contrary to (un)popular belief, however, we live in an imperfect rule (yes, you knew that), the police are human (to err is human, to err vigorously is fuzz), and the justice system is exactly as reliable as… have you ever heard of the Edsel? (If you haven’t, it’s a typical Ford and you can understand my anti-American-engineering drift, doubtless.) We live in a system where it takes the police a half hour to show up at the site of a violent crime but only thirty seconds to electrocute an innocent bystander, where the prosecution of the innocent is a fantastic replacement motto for any room with a judge’s bench, and where adherence to a strict code of unquestioned authority is more dogma than a Papal bull (yes, it’s certainly bull of some sort, even if not quite Papal). If I question the authority of an emotional wreck wearing a badge and brandishing a firearm, I am no longer a child of the revolution, no longer an anti-totalitarian, no longer a patriot standing up for freedom. Apparently I am either a terrorist or a sympathizer. Oops. My bad.

]]> By: Kavan Wolfe http://thewaronbullshit.com/2008/02/17/dont_trust_police/#comment-1068 Kavan Wolfe Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:12:26 +0000 http://thewaronbullshit.com/2008/02/17/dont_trust_police/#comment-1068 @H Alright. Nobody is this stupid. You're clearly just trying to get under my skin. If the police see someone run out of a bank with a bag of money, they should arrest him or her. Trust is irrelevant. I'm talking about the police bothering people who HAVEN'T COMMITTED CRIMES. The idea that police can't possibly function without marching over people's rights is absurd. This discussion is over. @Kelly 'The person has to be ... restrained and forced to comply.' Why? Why does everyone have to be forced to comply with illegal orders? What, you think society will end if people start questioning authority? Why is it only the totalitarian assholes who comment? @H

Alright. Nobody is this stupid. You’re clearly just trying to get under my skin. If the police see someone run out of a bank with a bag of money, they should arrest him or her. Trust is irrelevant. I’m talking about the police bothering people who HAVEN’T COMMITTED CRIMES. The idea that police can’t possibly function without marching over people’s rights is absurd. This discussion is over.

@Kelly

‘The person has to be … restrained and forced to comply.’ Why? Why does everyone have to be forced to comply with illegal orders? What, you think society will end if people start questioning authority?

Why is it only the totalitarian assholes who comment?

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