A couple years ago (spring 2004), I had a long conversation with a college student who was on course to throw away his life as an enforcer of counterfeit "laws".
A television was playing a news story about some perceived threat to the state capitol building. I commented that we would probably be better off without it, and the corruption it represents. He disagreed.
We then got into a friendly discussion regarding government.
He informed me he was going into law enforcement when he graduated college. He had been taking the law enforcement courses.
I asked him what his thoughts were about enforcing laws which violated the Constitution and Bill of Rights. His responses still haunt me.
His view (and I am forced to assume that this is what he was being taught) was that the Constitution and Bill of Rights were written for a different era, and do not apply to us any more. They are just something that wackos quote, and should be forgotten.
He told me that without government cracking down on citizens, chaos would erupt.
It was obvious from his attitude that cops are being trained from day one that it is "us against them".
So be it.
There are still a few, usually older, cops who understand their duty, and remember who they work for, but more and more the newer enforcers have the militarized mindset, dress-code, and swagger, and are out to feel the rush of combat. Combat against America in the form of "The War on Drugs", "Illegal Guns", "The War on Terror", and whatever the hobgoblin of the week happens to be.
These cops are traitors; domestic enemies pure and simple.
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