Wednesday, October 15, 2014
On the Hard-Core Left and Police
I'm going to put it in the "love-hate" category. On the one hand, they're always condemning law enforcement officers as a bunch of knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, troglodytic, racist buffoons (the criminal justice system is racist, they proclaim, and who, pray tell, is a better prototype than police?) BUT, being that they're also enthusiastic union Joe Blows, they also tend to embrace these folks when push comes to shove, the situation calls for it, etc........Hey, maybe Meryl Streep can portray them in an upcoming movie; "Progressive Slug's Choice".
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They do love the police when it comes to the police crushing certain Constitutional rights that the Left hates... I've had several discussions with those on the Left who favor granting cops the power to steal guns from law abiding citizens.
There's a new book out there, dmarks, called "The Rise of the Warrior Cop" and, while I haven't read it yet, I have seen the author interviewed and it is rather scary for certain (the high-powered weaponry now being utilized, the fact that SWAT teams are now being used a hundred times more frequently, etc.).......Yeah, we should all probably be worried about confiscation, and not just guns.
Constitutional Insurgent has made some excellent posts on his blog about this subject.
Oh you guys are so full of crap!
I'll have to check it out, dmarks.......That is always a possibility, Jerry, but please keep in mind here that there's probably some common ground on this issue (law enforcement) between libertarians and progressives; civil liberties, the drug war, etc..
The tendency, whether it be the right or left, is to gravitate towards the police state. Ideologues tend to view their beliefs as the only right ones and so naturally use the state to achieve their desired ends.
Civil liberties are often the first to go. Beware of the state, as it grows so does its power over you.
A lot of common ground. We are missing Jersey McJones... very liberal but unlike Jerry also very much against police abuse and especially militarization of the police.
Where Jersey tripped up had to do with blind partisanship: he argued that militarization of the police was much worse under Bush than Obana
RN: With the Left, the police state gets larger. With the Right, in contrast, the police state expands.
There's the difference right there...
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