(06-01-2020 05:46 PM)JRsec Wrote:  1. I agree about the attitude and lack of training here. And for the record HSA has given a lot of these smaller departments military equipment in addition to the surplus purchases. There is a fundamental difference between protecting and serving and dispatching hostiles.

True.

Quote:2. If the beat cop is organic to the community he or she serves the buy in is much more natural and that's the way it was in cities in this country in the 20's and 30's.

True.

Quote:3. We aren't connecting well here. The legitimate protest is seeking equal treatment under the law and by implication a standard of police conduct when making an arrest.

BLM is trying to shoot the moon on their demands for special treatment that none of us will ever receive.

ANTIFA is trying to drive the racial divide to volatile levels. They are pushing a communist/socialist agenda that some corporate lobbyists and some in Congress want to grow into incursions into our liberties that can be exploited. In as much as BLM ties themselves to this group they are complicit as well. Only their stated objective is merely a justification for the rest.

True, we are missing one another. It isn't that I doubt there isn't a valid protest, just that this simply as far as it will go. That is the source of my frustration.

Quote:4. My Citizen Cane quip was only that. I've never lived as anyone special and despise those who want that status no matter who they are. We are all in this together and nobody is getting out it alive.

I prefer to call the news industry what it really is, Muckraking Fiction.

That was the term I was missing for that era journalism. thanks..