"Good Cop, Bad Cop"

[RussM]

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[Biggles]

The new issue of Atlas magazine includes short commentary on the 9-11 investigation and the article, "Good Cop, Bad Cop":

The relationship between police and citizens seems to have changed from "service and protection" to "intimidation, domination, and control." What does this say about freedom in America?

http://home.earthlink.net/~rdmadden/webdocs/Atlas_Magazine.html

Russ Madden

We seem to be on the same page, Russ. Of course, I see reports of police abuses first-hand every day.

[Ken Valentine]

We seem to be on the same page, Russ. Of course, I see reports of police abuses first-hand every day.

When I was a boy, the police were called Peace Officers, and their primary duty was to protect the lives and property of the citizenry.

Today, it seems, their primary duty is to enforce the dictates of politicians and bureaucrats . . . which is why they are now called Law Enforcement!

Ken V.

[Ken Valentine]

The new issue of Atlas magazine includes short commentary on the 9-11 investigation and the article, "Good Cop, Bad Cop":

The relationship between police and citizens seems to have changed from "service and protection" to "intimidation, domination, and control." What does this say about freedom in America?

http://home.earthlink.net/~rdmadden/webdocs/Atlas_Magazine.html

Russ Madden

Very well said Russ!

In the mid '40's at Nuremburg, the precident was set that "just folowing orders" was not an excuse. The same precident was reenforced in the early '70's with the trial of William Calley. (Unfortunately, Nixon gave him a Presidential Pardon.)

Twenty years later, it all seems to have come to naught. Lon Horiuchi was exempted from responsibility for shooting Vicki Weaver in the head from 200 yards away. . . he claimed that he was just following orders. The very next year he was the head of a sniper team at Waco.

Why do governments always end up becoming the very thing they were created to prevent?

Ken V.