northmeck0255 wrote:
The badge lickers will be along soon to sing your praises. It's really easy to cheer on "law and order", so long as your operating assumption is that none of those things will be done to you or your family. That's the entire premise behind the show "Cops". We get to see "perps" chased down, bitten by police dogs, taxed, etc. but we can rest assured, the implied message goes, that those people deserved it. What is changing is that, more and more, normal middle class people are finding police and police equipment used on THEM! Do I think we live in a police state? You're darned right I do.
Watch out for the all the black helicopters overhead...