Asking the street.
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The shattered water made a misty din.
Great waves looked over others coming in,
And thought of doing something to the shore
That water never did to land before.
The clouds were low and hairy in the skies,
Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes.
You could not tell, and yet it looked as if
The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,
The cliff in being backed by continent;
It looked as if a night of dark intent
Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage.
There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God’s last Put out the light was spoken.
— Robert Frost
April is over. May moon.
How many more for my regard,
hundreds, a handful?
Better not trouble the dark water due north of north.
Better to concentrate on something close, something small.
This stick, for instance. This word.
–Charles Wright
I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this
air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their
parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
— Walt Whitman
Gerard Van der Leun
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Over a half a century of occasional interaction with police I have learned they are not useful to me and if they choose, can waste my ass without second thought. Everybody gets to have their own thoughts.
Blacks support the police only because they don’t know what’s best for them.
/sarc
I’ve known a lot of good and pretty good cops over the years, and interacted with a few bad ones.
I think we, alas, need the cops.
I don’t think we need police immunity not immunity of any government official.
I do think we need laws and regulations that are in full accord with our Constitution and that any actions by the police be limited to enforcement, not interpretation, of such.
Gotta have the Po-Po. I have a tendency to obey the Constitution, and pay taxes. No problemo with the police. USA!USA!USA! My oath to uphold such, still stands.
I saw a YT vid yesterday that showed some evidence that a significant number of LEOs are joining State militias. Seems they are beginning to understand that their handlers don’t have their backs when they respond to dangerous situations using approved protocol. The handlers jump ship at the first sniff if a problem from their response to an incident.
Hell, I don’t blame them. When your bosses will hang you, your jig is really up and if I was a big city po-po I’d be damned before I’d respond to anything that intimated trouble beyond clearing traffic after a minor fender bender. All of my response times would be tepid.
Jack, they ain’t gonna give up those lucrative incomes and all that goes with it. I will NEVER trust a gov’t employee. The time for jumping ship is long past.