Exactly! Thank you for proving my point.
The red cycle comment was a joke. Standing a gate could fill Ghandi with hate. I violated the Law Od Lloyd.
again, you are simply proving my point. You are open to agree with how some bad soldiers made it bad for all soldiers, including you, but you are unwilling to accept the parallel with law enforcement. You wore a similar shoe; the population you are trying to help despising you at every turn. Try and apply those lessons to your life.
You can say what you want, you have that right, as you’ve been slighted in the past. To point a finger and say “they are all bad” is literally the definition of bigotry. Let me help.
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Again you are quick to point a finger, but slow to look in on yourself.
I’m confused here, do you want to defund them, or increase funding? Do you want to fire them all, or keep some? You are all over the map with your feelings.
I’m glad to see you don’t use dyslexia as an excuse for poor reading comprehension. I am not a cop, haven’t been in a while, don’t know where that blind finger pointing is coming from. Also if you took the time to read, I’m not, nor ever will, defending dirty cops. In fact I wish the police unions would encourage steeper punishments. I do however realize that not every shooting is excessive force. I realize that every traffic stop is not because of race. I realize that the problem stems from both sides of this argument, and until both sides can recognize each others position there will be no changes. You are not a cop, so the only change you can make is your attitude and demeanor. Sadly your postings preclude you from being part
a solution, and ony further the divide.
I’m sorry you see your acts as criminal in nature, obviously others did not agree with your self reflection. Many of us have done and seen things that will haunt us till the day we die. You are not alone. I too have killed for a cause that was not mine, nor did I believe in. I was 63 days from ETS, 3 days from signing out on terminal leave, when I was stop lossed and sent to Iraq. My being there was ultimately my decision, I enlisted to go and do what was ordered and I did so under Clinton...I joined for the college, man. (Insert emoji for Lloyds Law)
So I ask, you were in 01-05, did you enlist after 9/11? What was your motivation to enlist in a system that you so deeply hate? If you enlisted after 9/11, did you not expect to go to war? Or was it something you realized later that actual combat will do it’s best to suck the humanity out of you?
What seemingly sets us, you and I, apart is how we rationalize our actions. It’s how we allow or disallow ourselves to be warped by the hate. Hate for self, or hate for others, it will all rot you from the inside. You can choose to make a difference. You can choose to accept the demons for what they are and move forward to the objective. It seems you are allowing the hate to consume you, which is sad to me.
It boggles my mind that you can’t draw the parallels between your experiences and what police officers may go through. You were the police officer in Iraq, and the Iraqi people were you at a traffic stop. Stop your hate and think about what YOU can do to make a change for the better. Until you can, nothing Is going to change by you posting “fuck the police” on the Internet. If you don’t want to help, then quit your bitching.
Exactly, and proving my point once again. Dude is reported for domestic violence, has history and an open warrant for violent crimes. Refuses to go quietly, breaks free of lower levels of force, is told to stop, then reaches for a knife. Cop shoots the dude. Where is the general consensus of “that dude shouldn’t have violently attacked his domestic partner, that dude shouldn’t have violated a protection order, that dude shouldn’t have fought his arrest, that dude shouldn’t have gone for a deadly weapon.“ Where was that same “because fucking obviously” in Kenosha?
I guess I’m the asshole because I see the shit from both sides and can easily say both are wrong as hell.