I'm not the brightest crayon in the box but I think I follow what you are saying. Personally I think it's policies that are f####d up, the police men and women are just good regular people (for the most part).When our governments begin to use the police as revenue collectors and baby sitters ... they become our enemy.
We're a long way from Mayberry, amigo.
When a government fears and has disdain for it's citizens, a police state is usually their response.
That's still true to a certain extent, but much less so today than say 40 years ago.
Holy crap, I needed a dictionary to keep up with you there my friend.That's still true to a certain extent, but much less so today than say 40 years ago.
It's a multifaceted issue that involves many factors.
We have a culture today that is in advanced moral and spiritual decay, our society is full of people who are completely ignorant of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and they are selfish, arrogant, and spoiled self-indulgent brats who demand that government and thereby law enforcement, give them whatever they insist on at any given moment in time.
Throw in the fact that we are overly litigious as a society ... every civil servant including police must worry that the slightest mistake might result in a lawsuit of millions of dollars, and possibly the end of his career.
And most of the old school law enforcement people are gone now, the people we have now are increasingly a product of our degenerate society, as the old saying goes ... garbage in, garbage out.
Ben Franklin was approached by a hysterical woman who demanded of him "What kind of government have you given us?!" ... and he replied "A republic madam, if you can keep it"
Notice the inherent flaw in human nature in the woman's question ... "what kind of government have you GIVEN us?" There's the enemy in society that will always be with mankind, we tend not to be the types who participate and lead, or the types that learn from history and use rational critical thought, we tend to be like that woman, accepting government that is GIVEN to us, ... yeah I know, voting - elections - blah blah blah - but that's all meaningless if the people doing the voting are ignorant morons who want government to remain a separate all powerful entity that is desirable when it caters to THEIR needs, desires, etc.
/rant
TLDR [emoji39]That's still true to a certain extent, but much less so today than say 40 years ago.
It's a multifaceted issue that involves many factors.
We have a culture today that is in advanced moral and spiritual decay, our society is full of people who are completely ignorant of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and they are selfish, arrogant, and spoiled self-indulgent brats who demand that government and thereby law enforcement, give them whatever they insist on at any given moment in time.
Throw in the fact that we are overly litigious as a society ... every civil servant including police must worry that the slightest mistake might result in a lawsuit of millions of dollars, and possibly the end of his career.
And most of the old school law enforcement people are gone now, the people we have now are increasingly a product of our degenerate society, as the old saying goes ... garbage in, garbage out.
Ben Franklin was approached by a hysterical woman who demanded of him "What kind of government have you given us?!" ... and he replied "A republic madam, if you can keep it"
Notice the inherent flaw in human nature in the woman's question ... "what kind of government have you GIVEN us?" There's the enemy in society that will always be with mankind, we tend not to be the types who participate and lead, or the types that learn from history and use rational critical thought, we tend to be like that woman, accepting government that is GIVEN to us, ... yeah I know, voting - elections - blah blah blah - but that's all meaningless if the people doing the voting are ignorant morons who want government to remain a separate all powerful entity that is desirable when it caters to THEIR needs, desires, etc.
/rant
That is the nature of the beast.
I love the USA and wouldn't ever want to live anywhere else.
Right now I would.a nice warm deserted Island south of the equator with a few women and a cooler full of dos equis.
i second that .Right now I would.a nice warm deserted Island south of the equator with a few women and a cooler full of dos equis.
a guy in Tennessee ******** about the weather ... when people in North East PA are present ... pffftRight now I would.a nice warm deserted Island south of the equator with a few women and a cooler full of dos equis.
Well you make a good argument, I change my mind now.Right now I would.a nice warm deserted Island south of the equator with a few women and a cooler full of dos equis.
Yeap.a guy in Tennessee ******** about the weather ... when people in North East PA are present ... pffft
Got to remember though I'm in the arctic region of the south.lol
i agree
Yeap.
At least put some real beer in the cooler and if more than one of the women, a box of hearing protection from the safety dept.Right now I would.a nice warm deserted Island south of the equator with a few women and a cooler full of dos equis.
yeah, well you all are use to that polar vortex crap , i am use to 100 + degree weather and so much humidity in the air that it feels like your trying to breath underwater .a guy in Tennessee ******** about the weather ... when people in North East PA are present ... pffft
I forgot this thread was even about that.
and ill tell yah what,,if hes been running the biz there,,for a long enough period of time,,id have a lawyer....he may be able to say hes grandfathered,,and they couldn't do anything about it......that would chap their a@#,, stinking city punks think they own the world...........
